Jeff Marshall hates the term “for-profit.” Hates it. “It’s a twist of words, a nuance to make ‘not-for-profit’ seem somehow more – I don’t know – community friendly,” says Marshall, a cardiologist and president of NGTC Health Properties, a partnership…
Northwest Georgia, hit especially hard by the recession, has a strong manufacturing tradition, thanks largely to the carpet industry. It has felt the pain of a diminished housing market as well as the effects of an economy that lacks diversification.…
John Crawford and Traycee Martin were conducting a tour of the new athletic facility on the campus of Valdosta State University (VSU) when their visitor asked the formal name of the 42,000-square-foot building. Crawford, CEO of the VSU Foun-dation, smiled…
Drive along Georgia Highway 84 East between Bainbridge and Cairo and you’re sure to see the large green and white sign proclaiming this stretch of road to be “Bobby Walden Highway.” Yes, it refers to that Bobby Walden, the one…
Prospects for producers of aerospace products are deteriorating rapidly, and the abrupt reversal of fortunes is somewhat surprising. After all, when the economic downturn began there was a huge backlog of orders for aircraft, and the U.S. government’s defense budget…
Under different circumstances, there was nothing the Georgia Tech faithful would have enjoyed more than the sight of Charley Trippi falling flat on his face. Unfortunately for the Yellow Jackets, the University of Georgia sophomore phenom was lying prone in…
Two years ago, Georgia was burning up the roll books, chartering 20-something de novo (new) banks thanks, in large part, to the unparalleled real estate boom the economy – particularly in the Atlanta metro area – was enjoying. Established banks…
After several years of on and off drought conditions, Georgia farm-ers saw 2009 unfold with seemingly unending rains that kept them out of the fields during the critical spring planting season. The warm, wet weather that followed created ideal conditions…
A few years ago if you asked Brunswick residents about the local college you’d likely get blank stares. They might have a vague idea there was a community college (or was it a trade school?) on Altama Avenue, but few…
I talked with Coach Bobby Cremins two days after his College of Charles-ton Cougars were upset by Chattanooga in the finals of the Southern Conference basketball tournament. “We did not play well,” he says, “but mainly we were simply too…
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