Nathan Deal wants to make Georgia the No. 1 place in the country to do business. He is crystal clear on that. As governor, he can already claim a pair of big successes: Last year Caterpillar, the construction equipment manufacturer,…
In many ways, Travis Joyce, Kelcy Newton and Carter Smith are typical high school seniors, yet the three seem more self-assured, armed with a clearly mature vocabulary and without any uncertainty about what’s next for them. They are veterans…
In 1980, Robert Balentine, then a 23-year-old fresh-faced wealth manager, was sitting in the Atlanta Merrill Lynch office when a prospective client walked in with a suitcase full of bearer bonds, the equivalent of cash at the time, and…
For the seventh year, Georgia Trend asked readers to nominate their companies for our annual Best Places To Work roster and tell us what makes them such good employers. Nominations came from all levels of employees in all kinds…
Are the water wars really over? It would seem so, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in June that Atlanta can access water from Lake Lanier and Gov. Nathan Deal promising $300 million for new reservoirs. The…
Economic development wins come in all sizes.
Are Georgia’s diners better off today than they were a year ago? That slightly revised campaign slogan is what I weigh each year as I sit down to write our annual Silver Spoons story. As in nearly every other sector,…
Jimmy Carter must have figured out a way to recycle time, because the man doesn’t waste a minute. He gets more done before lunch than most people half his age accomplish in a day, reading a cyber-stack of newspapers…
Winners of this year’s competition, sponsored by Kennesaw State University’s Cox Family Enterprise Center.
It’s another sultry August in Perry at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agri-center (GNFA), where Republicans are frying fish to raise money in the eighth district, young farmers are meeting en masse to show their goats or cattle, the…
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