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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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