Georgia Commissioner of Labor Michael Thurmond, sitting in the conference room of his Atlanta office discussing the job market for 2008, zeroes in on a key development. “The first baby boomer [has] qualified for Social Security,” he says. Thurmond is…
Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, provides electrical power to some 2.25 million customers in 155 counties in the state. The firm, which earned $787 million in 2006, formally requested a $406 million rate increase from the…
Like an American flag planted into the lunar surface, the shiny slab of black granite seems oddly out of place amid the hardwoods and rolling hills in a pristine patch of Canton in Cherokee County. It bears the inscription “The…
Click on the following link for extra information http://home.earthlink.net/~oldagolda/georgiatrendextra/ It all began with a single tree, a black cherry tree that became Spence Rosenfeld’s giving tree. One that gave him great joy as a boy, a refuge and way-cool hangout…
The coast with the most: After decades of spotty growth, the southern third of Georgia is alive with planned projects that forecast an Atlanta-like economic boom. Out-of-state developers, it seems, are finding proximities to Florida, especially those along an interstate,…
The 2008 forecast calls for Georgia’s inflation-adjusted GSP to increase by 2.4 percent, only slightly lower than the 2.6 percent advance estimated for 2007. Although the percentage gain will be down from last year, it will be higher than the…
At age 77 and still recovering from a near fatal accident, Michael Howard Mescon remains a highly sought-after speaker. But you cannot get him for money alone. He will not speak anywhere unless he is in close proximity to a…
There is as much water today as there was 4 million years ago, when the human population could be measured with a show of hands. Since then, in spite of difficulties that may have sent a lesser species scurrying for…
Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School may be the best school you never heard of. The low-profile Augusta school posts the highest SAT average in Georgia year after year. Davidson students averaged 1,710 out of 2,400 this year, far above the…
Andy Landers needed to be anywhere else that winter night of 1979. He had to put some miles between himself and a gut-wrenching, season-ending loss by his Roane State women’s basketball team. So he started driving south, took mountain back…
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