From the mountains of the north through bustling Atlanta to the swamps of the south, nothing so connects Georgians to commerce like the deepwater ports of the coast. Nearly 300,000 of the state’s workers owe their jobs to those ports…
A lot of cargo moves in and out of Georgia’s deepwater ports in Savannah and Bruns-wick, which means a lot of cargo containers need to get to and from the ports quickly via train or truck. When a planned deepening…
Green is good, Georgia companies are discovering, for both the planet and the balance sheet. A green business can be one that is based on selling green products and services or one that adopts green practices and procedures in more…
The advertising people are studying our habits and languages, getting into our heads, doing the math and exploiting the gathered intelligence to win us over, telling us what we want before we know it. Angels and devils on the shoulders…
At a time when GEORGIA’S leaders continue to seek an-swers to traffic congestion, transit funding and aging infrastructure issues, community improvement districts, or CIDs, are pushing ahead with creative solutions to the region’s most pressing problems. Georgia has more than…
Biotech boosters are quick to tout the industry’s most virtuous goal: improving the health and well-being of life on the planet through innovative research. The other goal that hardly needs mentioning (and therefore, it rarely is) has to do with…
In 2007, Lil Easterlin was at a meeting in Augusta where Gov. Sonny Perdue was giving a speech, during which he unveiled a program designed to improve Georgia’s workforce. “He talked about this program that worked with educational systems to…
Reproduction can be pressing business, fraught with challenges. But two University of Georgia scientists made a breakthrough discovery in reproduction and regeneration that has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging possibilities, including new therapies for devastating human diseases and the…
Agribusiness is Georgia’s No. 1 industry, bringing in $7.39 billion in 2008. Its economic impact is rivaled only by its political clout. Yet, like most industries in the state, agribusiness is changing. In addition to the more traditional sectors like…
When Georgia’s bank closure rate began to accelerate in the fall of 2008 and the number of troubled banks began to grow, it appeared the state was destined to lead the nation in the number of failed banks, which it…
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