Hip-hop dominates the state's billion-dollar-plus music industry, but country, rock and gospel make their own joyful and profitable noises. From Little Richard to the Allman Brothers to Ludacris, the hits just keep on coming.
Not all health care heroes hold MDs or wield scalpels. Meet six individuals who work behind the scenes in their hospitals and communities.
The annual Heart and Soul of Georgia Tour celebrates some re-energized downtowns and gives small towns a chance to tell their stories. Here's a look at Waycross, Fitzgerald and Folkston.
Across the state, dozens of small theatre groups entertain audiences, enrich their communities and help a bevy of citizen-actors find their inner Hamlet.
Georgia played a key role in establishing the cou ntry's central banking system, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is one of a dozen regional banks that helps set national monetary policy. It's much more of a grassroots operation than you might think.
What is the bottom line for the U.S. economy? My forecast calls for U.S. Gross Domestic Product to rise by 3.2 percent in 2006, and by 2.7 percent in 2007.
The crown jewel of Georgia's fabled Sea Island resort will reopen later this year, resurrected, reborn and rebuilt. Bill Jones III, the man whose vision has guided the process, says the new building has to respect the past and look to the future.
At UGA, Cedartown's Kermit Perry ran for glory on the cinders.
Q&A with Aaron Rents founder Charles Loudermilk, who parlayed a modest loan and a few folding chairs into a furntiure rental empire and helped write the book on corporate citizenship in Atlanta.
Corporate diversity programs, now widely recognized as good business, have increased the numbers of women and minorities in the workplace. But that's not necessarily enough. And the next step may be the hardest one of all.
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