Last year my optimism for Columbus was based primarily on the fact that the area had so many projects in the economic development pipeline. That has not changed. Kia Motors has added a second shift to produce the Hyundai Santa…
It was a few minutes after 10:00 and the family was settling in for the night when Donna Hyland’s 15-year-old daughter Brooke entered her parents’ bedroom. “We picked her up early from school that day, thought it was probably…
Last year, after 23 years with the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, or ACCG, Ross King became the third executive director in the organization’s history, succeeding Jerry Griffin. ACCG has been around since 1914, although it didn’t have an…
Putting strong sustainability principles into practice is good for business as well as the planet, as more Georgia companies and their stakeholders are discovering. Even a tough economy has not deterred the state’s top corporate citizens from working to strengthen…
Georgia consumers are gradually loosening the tight grip they have had on their money, and the state’s 162 credit unions are cheering that good news – even though they were often the big winners during the darkest days of the…
Zach Hayes thinks he flew out through the sunroof, but he isn’t sure. His memories of the accident that nearly killed him are choppy and grainy bits of sound and vision that don’t complete the story; the only arc he…
Georgia’s economic developers and business leaders are expressing muted optimism for the coming year. Truthfully, many of them had expected a little more activity than the last few months have shown. They are not discouraged, just determined to work a…
Metro Atlanta economic developers didn’t waste time wringing their hands when growth stalled and businesses floundered. They continued to press ahead. As a transitional year, 2010 finished stronger than anticipated, and that momentum has carried into 2011. “We were…
A region that has seen plant closings, layoffs and unemployment rates as high as 20 percent, Northwest Georgia is finding some good news – even if, in more prosperous days, it might not have been considered so good. “We…
In the middle of January, right after a heavy winter storm, 400 hopeful people from across Northeast Georgia slid into Gainesville on slick roads for a job fair. They must have liked their odds. ZF Wind Power LLC was looking…
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