Beyond Heart-health Basics
Even if we don’t always heed them, most of us know the traditional risk factors for heart disease and what we can do to minimize at least some of them. A few years ago, the American Heart Association summed up…
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Visionary Cities
Community. The word has several connotations but broadly it refers to people living together in a specific area. Typically, those residents share the common goal of making their communities better places to live, work and play. Their efforts often involve…
2023 Legislative Guide: Focus on Funding
This year’s legislative session convened Jan. 9 and will likely adjourn the end of March. This should be a laid-back session following last year’s elections, but it is also an opportunity for new lawmakers on both sides of the aisle…
Engineering a Better World
The phone call seemed to come out of nowhere. The city of Los Angeles Public Works wanted to know if Morehouse College senior Chase Garrison was interested in helping analyze an engineering problem. In fact, the Los Angeles program was…
Georgia Trustees: Donna Hyland and Dan Amos
Non Sibi Sed Aliis. The translation from Latin means “not for self, but for others.” It’s the motto of the first Georgia Trustees who were charged in 1732 by England’s King George II with establishing the new colony of Georgia.…
2023 Georgian of the Year: Successfully Selling the State
It was 2010 and Gov. Sonny Perdue’s last legislative session had ended. And Pat Wilson was tired. He’d served as director of government affairs, promoting the legislative agenda of the first Republican elected governor in Georgia since Reconstruction, for the…
2023 Hall of Fame: Calvin Smyre – Lawmaker and Statesman
It is hard to imagine the Georgia House of Representatives without its dean: Calvin Smyre, the Columbus Democrat who served for 48 years and was the longest-tenured member of the legislature when he retired last year. An early mentor told…
2023 100 Most Influential Georgians: A Most Inspiring Group
This year’s Georgian of the Year Pat Wilson may be the state’s top salesperson, working to attract companies that will invest millions and create hundreds of new jobs. However, he is hardly alone in promoting Georgia’s advantages. Every day, thousands…
The Future of Clean Energy?
Georgians will find out this year how much truth is in the English proverb, “Good things come to those who wait. In this case, individuals, small businesses, state and local governments, manufacturers and utilities, among others, are waiting to find…
A Journey of Growth and Innovation
It was an unlikely beginning: an abandoned federal property turned over to the state and made the home of a military school, only eight years after the end of the Civil War. At the time, surely no one imagined the…
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