The Mayor Of Orrsville
Super Bowl III, 1969: The New York Jets shocked the football world by living up to Joe Namath’s pregame prediction of victory. But the one play fans still talk about came right before the end of the first half. Baltimore’s…
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Moving The Masses: Running On Empty
When Patricia Williams left Washington, DC, she chose Atlanta as her next hometown for two reasons: the climate and MARTA. “I wanted to live in a warmer place – who needs six feet of snow? And I wanted a mass…
Sonny Perdue: Balancing Needs And Resources
Sonny Perdue, Georgia’s first Republican governor in more than a century, is now one year into his second term. He grew up in middle Georgia and was a veterinarian and then a businessman who served 11 years in the State…
The Best Places To Work In Georgia
When we set out to present our first “Best Places To Work in Georgia” Honor Roll we decided to ask the experts – the people who work in Georgia’s businesses, professional offices, governmental agencies, healthcare institutions and nonprofits. We wanted…
Keeping It Green
Not long ago, the board of directors for a large Georgia corporation was hammering out what it thought was a fair solution to a touchy pollution problem the company was facing. One of its executives who had completed a yearlong…
The Office Market Outlook
The Atlanta office market’s expansion phase should continue in 2008, but at a much more subdued pace. An abundance of recently announced projects – as well as those already in the development pipeline – will ensure that overall spending for…
My Biggest Sports Thrills
At age 6, I duked it out with my 9-year-old brother, Buddy, in the ring at the old Atlanta Municipal Auditorium until my dad could get us out – so referee Jim Talerico could start the main event. I thought…
Transportation Gridlock: Can Atlanta's Traffic Be Fixed?
The typical Atlanta commuter spends a couple of hours each weekday tediously crawling the brittle asphalt gauntlet between home and livelihood, alone in his car, which becomes a gas chamber on wheels in the creeping sludge of traffic that is…
Educating With Faith
In researching private schools five years ago, Tina Young found several she believed would challenge her two children in the classroom. But the Duluth mother wanted more. “I was looking for a spiritual school, one that taught family values,” she…
Glenn Richardson: Taking Aim At Property Taxes
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…
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