Economic Development Features

An anniversary isn’t just a time for reflection and nostalgia. It’s also an opportunity to look forward, to set goals for the next 30 years and to find ways to continue to improve. We asked 30 Georgians, leaders in their…

Thirty years ago, a lot of Georgians might have told you the state had already changed about as much as it could. Not so, as it turns out.

Mining is the only work that Tommie Wilson, 79, and Hoyt Sanders, 76, have known. Wilson began loading kaolin in 1956 and Sanders began working in the mines in east Georgia in 1957. They started out at $1.28 and $1.34…

Transportation was the 500-pound gorilla in this year’s legislative session – a friendly gorilla for the most part, who claimed a ton of attention but got lots of money for roads and bridges and even a little for transit. There…