With several notable bank collapses in Georgia over the past 12 months and a rising number on the sick list, the state’s 165 credit unions have been quiet, a condition their executives seem to enjoy. In fact, credit unions across…
Sharon Jenkins Tucker is living her second life. The first one fell apart and vanished like a dream. “I had a fabulous job,” says Tucker, who was putting her master’s degree to work as international admissions counselor for her alma…
The director of the Selig Center for Economic Research at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business reports on prospects for some key Georgia industries this year. Lumber and Wood With the end of the homebuilding recession, production of…
On paper, it made good sense and looked fairly easy. In the fall of 2008, in the face of a collapsing economy, the state’s technical colleges faced dramatically increased enrollment from the newly unemployed seeking retraining – and dramatically lower…
Forget the iron bars. That bleak, defining image of jail – and the files, hacksaws and clanging metal cups that go with it – no longer holds in sleek, modern cell design. “We had one client request the bars awhile…
It got to where Paul Smith couldn’t feed his dogs without losing his breath or feeling chest pains. Couldn’t hunt, couldn’t even take a bath. The exertion was killing him. “I was living, but just living, wasn’t much functioning to…
With money especially tight, counties are being called upon to do more with less. The six winners of this year’s County Excellence Awards – Chatham, Cobb, Decatur, Heard, Liberty and Mitchell counties – have demonstrated an ability to provide their…
In two decades as a Savannah resident, Linda Bleicken never saw Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) in her future. As a professor and provost at the much larger Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, she was happy where she was and…
Abit Massey remembers how it was in the beginning. Fifty years ago, he was hired away from the state Department of Commerce to be the director of the Georgia Poultry Federation. As part of his job he would go to…
Brencie Werner discovered the lump herself. It was spring 2008 – after the experts had concluded that breast self-examination was probably a wasted effort, and not worth a physician’s time to teach patients how to do it. Fortunately, Werner hadn’t…
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