In July, several factions of Georgia’s diverse and prolific aerospace industry joined forces for a flight test at a Cartersville airstrip. The collaboration just may change the world. Generation Orbit Launch Services, a subsidiary of Atlanta’s SpaceWorks Technologies Inc., completed…
Even consumer guru Clark Howard has jumped into Georgia’s transportation funding discussion. Pointing to a recent study that says automobile damage caused by shoddy roads is on the rise nationwide, Howard insisted in a recent radio segment that it’s much…
Agritourism. While the industry may be as old as Georgia’s fertile soil, the term is just sprouting, relatively speaking. Janice Hale, operator of Hillcrest Orchards in Ellijay, added tourism to her business portfolio in 1993, during a rough patch for…
The stunning gateways to Brunswick and the Golden Isles are the stuff of poetry. Indeed, in 1878, Sidney Lanier sat beneath an oak tree near the Brunswick River, where a bridge (and its replacement) would later be built and named…
Lindsay Thomas says he remembers the first time he became aware of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s existence. It was early 1983 and Thomas, then a Wayne County banker, had just been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A…
On the heels of the most successful year in Georgia seaport history, and after two painstaking decades of planning and politicking, Savannah’s harbor expansion is becoming a delectable reality in 2015. Indeed, the major sectors of Chatham County’s economy –…
It’s a tale of 12 Georgia regions: Three have a solid funding source for road improvements; the other nine – including those in the Atlanta metropolitan area – do not. The imbalance is attributable to one penny: the sales tax…
While local sales tax referendums are just about as familiar in Georgia as hot summers, there was something extraordinary about a tax question posed to Ware County residents in May. The citizens in this Southeast Georgia county were asked to…
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