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…
Georgians are holding their breath, awaiting the results of the upcoming legislative session, hoping that a new funding source for transportation will be created and some solutions offered for the state’s transportation problems. With gas prices creeping back up, voter…
The Commerce Club, the premier meeting place for Atlanta’s civic-minded business community since it was founded in 1960, will combine its membership with the One Ninety One Club and move from its Broad Street location to the 49th floor of…
Hospitals are scary and necessary motherships of healing where medical miracles happen daily, and where tens of thousands of people die unnecessarily every year. Patients, who don’t want to be there to begin with, have to confront their illnesses and…
It was a heart-stopping moment for Columbus’ Mike Gaymon back in 1996 when word leaked out that one of his community’s most valuable corporate citizens, the credit card processing giant TSYS, was thinking of relocating. “They were talking about 2,500…
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