Georgia Trend hosted its Most Influential Georgians event at the Georgia Aquarium last week. Honorees included Georgian of the Year Gary Black, the state's agriculture commissioner; the new inductees into the Hall of Fame Hank Huckaby, former chancellor of the…
Holly Quinlan, CEO of Cobb Travel & Tourism, talks a bit about Cobb County's No. 1 industry -- tourism -- and welcomes visitors to the booming North Metro Atlanta county. https://youtu.be/jZZ7a2wd_zQ Learn more about what's happening in Cobb -- from…
Our hearts go out to the people and communities devastated by extreme weather in Southwest Georgia. If you're interested in helping, check out some of these resources: City of Albany Disaster Relief Red Cross Samaritan's Purse Tift County Sheriff Gene Scarbrough…
Gov. Nathan Deal addressed the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Eggs and Issues Breakfast in Atlanta last week, describing an optimistic infrastructure spending and job growth scenario for 2017. “We’ve already started on a $10-billion, 10-year plan to build roads…
The History of Santa Claus: By Neely Young, Georgia Trend's co-editor in chief and publisher. Christmas is child-centric event that promises magic, gifts, merriment, excitement and for one day during the year, peace on earth and good will toward men.…
Happy Holidays from all of us at Georgia Trend. We’ll be back with more Latest Trends in 2017. Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Wegrzyn at Unsplash
Who knew there was an old-growth forest in the middle of Atlanta? This fall Fernbank Forest, one of the largest urban old-growth Piedmont forests in the U.S., reopened. A lovely place to find peace in midst of the big city. [gallery…
The Million Pines City Photo by Ben Young
The Atlanta Regional Commission recently hosted its 2016 State of the Region Breakfast for more than 1,200 business, government and nonprofit leaders. During the event, the results of this year's region-wide Metro-Atlanta Speaks survey were presented. Among the findings, transportation –…
Last month, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inducted its 2016 class of five honorees: humorist Roy Blount Jr. and journalist Bill Shipp, as well as posthumous awards to novelist Brainard Cheney, social activist Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and short-story writer and Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPherson.…
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