Business Casual: Healthy Wish List
Despite being well over the age limit for Santa visits, I can’t resist coming up with an end-of-year wish list, much of it focusing on health for family, friends and a lot of people I don’t know. Yet it’s not…
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Business Casual: Welcome Season
For me, there are two official harbingers of the oh-so-welcome, what-took-you-so-long? fall season: the first UGA football game and the scent of cinnamon brooms in my local supermarket. The first of these is welcome, promising the yin of eventual cool…
Business Casual: Do Something
From the long hot summer of horrifying and generally dispiriting news, there is a whole troubling series of images I can’t get out of my head: the dead and injured in California, Texas and Ohio; festival-goers, weekend shoppers and people…
Business Casual: Where Are the Grownups?
The first time I was ever completely alone with my now-grown daughter was in the hospital where she was born. When she began to cry, the thing that popped immediately into my head was a hope that some responsible adult…
Business Casual: Don’t Go, Please
Practically every parent alive has at least one recollection of trying to get out the door for a day’s work or an overnight trip with a teary-eyed two-year-old clinging to a leg, pleading, “Don’t go!” I’ve been feeling a bit…
Business Casual: Spirited Slogans
The old Atlanta slogan that proclaimed it “The World’s Next Great International City” seemed a bit more aspirational than realistic for the first few years it was floating around in the early 1970s. Noble idea, but was it likely to…
Business Casual: Georgia, Georgia
A few years ago, when I was helping move my daughter into her freshman dormitory in our nation’s capital and busily unloading boxes from the car, a man who had just alighted from his New Jersey-tagged vehicle with a yippy…
Business Casual: An Empty Glass
If you are a glass-half-full person, you might be able to look back on the 2019 General Assembly session and focus on some good-faith efforts to make life better for a significant number of Georgians, especially relating to voting and…
Business Casual: Keep Them Safe
Twenty years ago this month, the meaning of “school safety” changed forever the day that two troubled Colorado high school seniors killed 13 people and injured 23 more at Columbine High School in Littleton, a Denver suburb, then took their…
Business Casual: Don’t Mess This Up
Right at the top of the list of good things Georgia has going for it is a booming film and entertainment industry – worth about $9.5 billion a year. The industry produces good jobs, it attracts tourists and it brings…
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- Growing Georgia’s workforceThe Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) announced it is providing $6 million to fund new college and career academies in Muscogee and Catoosa counties. The new academies will offer high school students learning experiences that combine classroom instruction with real-world applications in several of Georgia’s leading industries. The goal is to prepare students for […]
- New rural zones namedThe Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) recently designated seven cities as Rural Zones. Adel, Douglas, Eatonton, Forsyth, Rossville, Villa Rica and Washington will be eligible to receive tax credits for individuals who create jobs and make qualifying investments in the cities’ historic downtown areas. The Rural Zone designation lasts for five years and projects […]
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