What lies ahead for our economy and for Georgia’s K-12 education? This quarter and the first quarter of 2009 will be dreadful. We are going through some sharp pullbacks in spending by both consumers and businesses. People and companies have…
Viewed from atop the 50-foot-tall earthen dike that surrounds a reservoir on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, the topography ranges from marshy and swampy to pitted stretches of sand resembling a moonscape. With darkening storm clouds gathering…
Richard Sowell took a roundabout route from blood-spattered kitchen tables in the wee hours of rural south Georgia mornings to his current post as dean of the WellStar College of Health and Human Services at Kennesaw State University. His father…
A drought envelops Georgia like pitiless lava and parched communities carefully monitor their drinking water supplies. Stream flows approach record lows, and lake levels plummet. Water authorities throughout the state try to wring every available drop. Administering the supply of…
Name Of The Game: When Atlanta’s JVC America Inc. an-nounced earlier this year it would be adding 540,000 square feet to its existing 360,000 square feet of warehouse space, the move was further tribute to Georgia’s solid reputation as logistics…
Georgia’s prolonged and severe housing downturn has nearly run its course. Sales of new homes will bottom out in the final quarter of 2008, and sales of existing homes will bottom in the first quarter of 2009. New home sales…
In the annals of baseball history, few families have been represented across three generations. One that comes to mind – and probably the most successful – is the Bagby family. James Charles Jacob Bagby (Old Sarge) won 129 games, mostly…
It’s the Friday before Labor Day and 73 employees exit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the last time, the latest round of job buyouts at the tilting daily newspaper. As he watches colleagues leave for the longest holiday weekend of their…
It’s easy for a CEO to say he cares about his employees. But Ben Hinson of Mid Georgia Ambulance Service in Macon puts his words into action, giving loans up to $3,000 to employees who are struggling financially. If the…
It is mid-afternoon and Yvonne Williams steers her SUV in and out of light traffic, crisscrossing the Perimeter area on the northern side of Atlanta pointing out to her passenger office towers, restaurants, roads, residential high rises, municipal buildings, pedestrians,…
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