A woman in the Macon area found herself upside-down on her mortgage last year. Al-though she had faithfully made her monthly payment for 15 years, she unexpectedly wound up on the verge of losing the home she had worked countless…
Don’t get the wrong idea. It’s not like there were tumbleweeds rolling on a whistling wind down 3rd Avenue, the main drag in downtown West Point, a little Georgia town in the southwest corner of Troup County just this side…
Lumber and Wood Production of lumber and wood products is poised to grow much faster than GDP. Surging production will be due to the nation’s housing market recovery, supply constraints related to the mountain pine beetle in Canada and higher…
Each day, Paul Van Wicklen shows up for work in an underground vault at the Richard B. Russell Library on the campus of the University of Georgia (UGA), where he stands guard over a cavernous collection of items so rare…
As 2013 was winding down, Atlanta was emerging from the Great Recession, bringing with it the city’s long-slumbering commercial real estate sector. At the end of 2013’s second quarter, Atlanta’s nearly 144 million square feet of office space was showing…
Erin Grasso beams at the edge of a frigid muddy pitch, a baby in one arm, another on the way, while her husband Mike whoops it up in a big, yellow John Deere excavator, its single hydraulic insect arm ripping…
In a year that saw World War I break out, the Panama Canal open and the first Tarzan of the Apes book published, 135 commissioners of roads and revenues in Georgia laid the groundwork for an organization that is indispensable…
Every citizen knows the conventional wisdom that has defined our state since Reconstruction: There is Atlanta, and then there is the rest of Georgia. Increasingly, though, the other, smaller cities are thrumming with innovation and a renewed sense of camaraderie,…
Nobody expected the end of the world to last this long or to have such mass appeal. “Who could predict the popularity of a zombie apocalypse? We didn’t, but we’re delighted.” That’s Tom Luse, executive producer for The Walking Dead,…
I’ve never seen the man before, don’t know his name, but he’s definitely local, or he wouldn’t be embedded at a North Georgia sports shop, where he presents an air of native permanence. I’ve only lived in this rural community…
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