This is the 13th edition of Georgia Trend’s 100 Most Influential Georgians, and it reflects a changing of the guard at the highest levels of state government and business leadership, while furthering the notion of Georgia as, basically, a one-party…
Bruce Rodgers had his second heart attack in March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, and through a post-surgery medicated haze he watched the conflict unfold from a hospital bed. He soon went home to continue his recovery and…
Georgia Trend’s Neely Young and Susan Percy traveled to Macon last fall for a roundtable discussion with five of the state’s top economic developers, all active with the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA). They talked about bringing jobs to Georgia,…
When 26-year-old Tai Le finished college four years ago, she stepped into her first job as a recruiter at a private placement company in Atlanta where she helped engineers find employment. But the job was short lived. “I worked there…
Just about every town has them. Old commercial or industrial areas that were once bustling now have buildings sitting empty. Most of them are not beyond hope – they’ve just seen better days and are in need of a boost…
Consider the wondrous sausage biscuit: A thing of simple beauty, with browned bits of spiced pork between fresh-baked bread. Those of us who are old enough, and came from an agrarian background, remember when it was a part of a…
“What,” says Ivy Prep’s school head Nina Gilbert, “are you doing?” On a tour of her impressive, college-oriented all-girl charter school, Gilbert has escorted a reporter to orderly but engaged classes, where students must raise their hands to acknowledge “100…
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…
Three years ago Georgia was wilting in the arid throes of a record drought, the worst in more than a century. Scorching heat, record-low rainfalls in historically wet regions and shrinking water supplies pushed most of the Southeast to the…
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