The Saturday afternoon in 2009 when Larry Gellerstedt walked into a meeting of the board of Cousins Properties, he knew he was about to be offered the CEO’s job. Like other real estate businesses, the Atlanta company founded by Tom…
The people up for election in state and local races are the ones who make the wheels of government turn in our communities.
Raises for state employees, who’s in the primary races and general election challengers.
A tuition freeze, State Rep. Bob Bryant passes and APS and the BeltLine move forward.
Two ways to help Georgia families from both sides of the political aisle.
Sen. David Perdue, a conservative Republican and political newcomer, came from a strong business background to win the first office he ever ran for, that of U.S. senator. He approached his 2014 campaign as an outsider, promising to bring his…
A lot of teachers are frustrated, but the reasons may surprise you.
Repercussions for State Rep. Tommy Benton, an anti discrimination bill and more cannabis-related legislation.
If you are looking for words to describe the state’s $15-billion logistics powerhouse, you might come up with changing, growing, fast-moving or even challenging. And you would be right on all counts. By definition, an industry devoted to getting products…
As an adult, you don’t have the luxury of waiting for someone else to fix things, right wrongs and take responsibility. The ball is pretty much in your court.
SEC primary candidates, cannabis legislation fallout and the Every Student Succeeds Act passes.
At first glance, Jim Blanchard and Muhtar Kent might not appear to have much in common, but dig just a little deeper and the reason the pair were selected as 2016 Georgia Trustees becomes obvious. Servant leadership, says Todd Groce,…
In Athens, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame was a heart-in-your-throat occasion.
New leadership for the Board of Regents, a statewide data breach and another university consolidation.
He’s a lot more, but Sam Olens is basically a good guy. Georgia’s Republican attorney general, in the middle of his second term, is a plays-well-with-others, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-to-work consensus-builder, a lawyer’s lawyer who is quick to share credit and gives every…
The DOE hires its first economic development liaison, State. Sen. Ross Tolleson announces his retirement and more DeKalb drama.
Georgia has too many chronically failing schools – some 139 of them. Nobody disputes that, and nobody disputes that something needs to be done. But determining the what and the how is the hard part. The legislature took a crack…
Sites on the Civil Rights Tours Atlanta are palpable reminders of the complexity of the Civil Rights Movement.
Several of Georgia’s mayors recently came together to discuss consolidation, healthy competition and transportation.
Another name change in Augusta, a slew of special elections on tap and a new president for Dalton State.
Bud Peterson, who has been at Georgia Tech since 2009, presides over one of the country’s most prestigious technical institutes, engaged in far-reaching research and innovative economic development activities. It has changed dramatically in the last few years, moving well…
Macon native Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, a graduate of Georgia Tech and Harvard Medical School, last year became the sixth president of Morehouse School of Medicine, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2015. An OB-GYN by training, she presides…
A Civil Rights leader passes, the Georgia Chamber opposes the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, and the Georgia Film Academy gets a new executive director.
Those in politics tend to insulate and isolate themselves from the world – perhaps they should get out a little bit more.
Thirty years ago, a lot of Georgians might have told you the state had already changed about as much as it could. Not so, as it turns out.
Summer elections and runoff winners, John Barrow’s new job and a new president for Georgia Regents University.
The world could use a bit more kindness – along with all the other things it needs.
For all the attention that troubled school systems and bad-apple teachers and administrators get, there is a lot of magic that happens in the classroom.
It had been a rough year for Jen Hilburn and the environmental advocacy group she heads, but the Altamaha Riverkeeper had something big to celebrate in May: The state Department of Transportation denied an out-of-state energy firm’s request to build…
More Legislators of the Year, a new Department of Human Services commissioner and suspended DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis is convicted.
Yates is confirmed, the AG’s office takes over consumer protection and Isakson is honored.
Transportation was the 500-pound gorilla in this year’s legislative session – a friendly gorilla for the most part, who claimed a ton of attention but got lots of money for roads and bridges and even a little for transit. There…
Times change, and so does language. Occasionally a term like “redneck” or “thug” needs to be retired.
Since 2007, Dennis Lockhart has headed the Sixth District Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. It is one of 12 regional banks that functions as an operational arm of the Federal Reserve Bank, the country’s central bank charged with setting monetary…
Larry O’Neal takes on a judgeship, Tyrone Brooks resigns before his guilty plea and Michelle Nunn will become the new CEO of CARE.
Despite the “culture of fear,” she is said to have created, it was hard to make Dr. Beverly Hall, a woman dying of cancer, into a satisfactory villain during the APS cheating trial.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act falls short, Gov. Deal’s Opportunity School Districts move to the ballot and DeKalb County launches an investigation into corruption.
With $39.4 billion in exports and more than 3,000 foreign-owned companies representing 57 countries operating in Georgia, the state is fast becoming a global player.
The same day the nation recognized the 50th anniversary of the March to Selma, another group of chanting partygoers showed us there’s so much more work to be done.
A new veterans’ bill, green achievements for seven local communities and a Congressional Gold Medal.
In little more than two years, Keith Parker has overseen a turnaround in the metro region’s 35-year-old transit system – and not a minute too soon. In recent years, MARTA was perennially referred to as “beleaguered” or “troubled,” as though…
From Athens to Savannah and Demorest to Decatur, a list of 10 favorite places in Georgia.
We baby boomers have met our match in the millennial generation, which values family, community and creativity.
A new GDOT commissioner, life science supporters in the legislature and a new chair and legislative priorities for the Georgia chamber.
Karen Bremer has had a long career in the restaurant industry, starting as a teenage S&S Cafeteria checker in Florida, where she walked the line to make sure food was properly displayed and priced. She was a restaurant manager and…
David Perdue heads to D.C., Sally Quillian Yates is nominated for deputy attorney general and more runoffs for Georgia House seats.
Alana Shepherd comes every day to volunteer at the Shepherd Center, the private, not-for-profit hospital she and her husband Harold and son James founded 40 years ago in Atlanta to specialize in treatment and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord…
The Shepherd Center’s Alana Shepherd and SCAD President Paula Wallace are the 2015 recipients of the state’s highest honor.
The events in Paris this January have touched many of us in a personal way.
University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby has brought a new stability to Georgia’s public colleges
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