Features

Business Industry, Features

Heavy Metal

Candice Dyer,

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…
Features, Health Care

Matters Of The Heart

Jerry Grillo,

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…
Education, Features

Emphasis On The Practical

Randy Southerland,

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…
Business Industry, Features

The Game Changers

Tom Crawford,

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…
Features, Health Care

Hope And Help

Jerry Grillo,

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…
Environment, Features

The Water Brigade, Part 2

Susan Percy,

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…
Education, Features

Virtual Learning

Ed Lightsey,

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…

Features, Sports Leisure

Lee Walburn: A Sporting Life

Gene Asher,

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…