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…
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…
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