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Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson was the key figure in a colorful and contentious 2007 legislative session that included some public feuding with Gov. Sonny Perdue over a property tax rebate, among other things. Richardson, from Paulding County, is…
Heroes seem to enter our lives at critical moments, often – but not always – in dramatic fashion. Here are the stories of five Georgia healthcare professionals who find rewards by serving their patients on a daily basis and, on…
Bonnie Flood is a new kind of Georgia retailer. Once the owner of a chain of women’s clothing stores in suburban Cobb County, she moved to the Big Canoe community north of Atlanta to hike in the woods and pursue…
Looking north from the window of the fourth-floor conference room at his office on Hutchinson Island in the Savannah harbor, Lynn Pitts can see South Carolina, where his counterparts are massed for an invasion into Georgia. “I am well aware…
Thinking Big: Residents of the Atlanta area are giving birth to new communities at gold-rush speed and local officials are scrambling to make sure the new arrivals come into the world healthy and ready for positive growth. For these leaders,…
Downtown developers going pro, unjamming commuter traffic, educating young Georgia drivers and greener grass.
Few if any of Georgia’s single-family housing markets are dodging the recession, but the turnaround in new home construction should begin in the second quarter of 2008.
The Gulletts have been showing horses and winning blue ribbons for 40 years
It’s been more than 30 years since Deliverance jump-started Georgia’s film industry, and now movies, TV, commercials and videos have a $450-million impact on the state’s economy. But the competition is fierce, especially from other Southern states ready for their close-ups.
The 2007 Excellence in Public Service Awards presented by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, in partnership with Georgia Trend, recognize five of the state’s unsung heroes.
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Meredith Leapley, a 2007 Georgia Trend 40 Under 40 honoree, is celebrating 26 years as founder and CEO of Leapley Construction Group. A Maryland native, Leapley founded her company in 1999 to be a premier commercial interior general contractor. Meredith…
John Ahmann, a 2001 Georgia Trend 40 Under 40 honoree, currently serves as CEO of Westside Future Fund. At the time of his 40 Under 40 honor, he was Senior Vice President for Community Development at the Georgia Chamber of…
