Each spring, when buses from the Heart and Soul of Georgia Tour roll into a select group of cities, the visitors are met by high school marching bands, exuberant elected officials and citizens excited about the opportunity to showcase their…
As Georgia was grappling with the harsh realities of a finite water supply and a federal judge’s ruling that threatens the metro area’s access to Lake Lanier, Georgia Trend convened a roundtable and called on some of the state’s most…
Nancy and Tony Arata of Athens are in many ways mirror images of each other, and the two also reflect the modern working couple on the go and on the way up, with barely a pause in their hectic daily…
You name it and Lee Walburn has done it – basketball player, baseball player, high and low hurdler, sports editor, sportswriter, Atlanta Braves publicity and promotion director, public relations guru and award-winning magazine editor. What impresses me most about Roswell…
Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery Minister, Civil Rights leader Atlanta Age: 88 Joseph Lowery remains influential and relevant as he approaches 90, a venerable lion of the good fight. The NAACP called Lowery the “dean of the Civil Rights movement.” A…
This is the 12th edition of Georgia Trend’s 100 Most Influential Georgians, and it’s different from the others for one main reason – the speaker of the House did not make the cut this year. At presstime, Rep. David Ralston…
Rev. Dr. Joanna Adams, Senior Pastor, Morningside Presbyterian Church Brian Anderson, President, Dalton-Whitfield Chamber of Commerce Amos Amerson, State Representative Scott Angle, Dean, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia Joel Babbit, CEO, Mother Nature…
Despite the heavy autumn rains that ended a two-year drought, Georgia still has water troubles. A federal judge’s ruling that Atlanta has no claim on Lake Lanier water and the three-year timeline imposed for reaching an agreement with Alabama and…
"I can talk until people fall over in a dead faint when I’m excited about something, and I’m really excited about what we’re doing here.” Cathy Cox isn’t kidding. These days, Georgia’s former secretary of state finds herself with much…
By now, businesspeople have become all too familiar with Georgia’s most distressing employment statistics: A half-million people out of work. Statewide unemployment at 10.2 percent. In the state’s most adversely affected area, the metro Dalton area, where carpet and textile…
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