High-Tech Aptitude, Basic Skills
Educating Georgia's new manufacturing workforce means teaching technical skills largely unknown five years ago, offering remedial math and English courses and working to instill good old-fashioned workplace values.
Features
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Georgia's Botanical Garden spreads the word about native and endangered plants to students, teachers and the general public.
Who's Slowing Job Growth?
Atlanta's jobs will grow by only 1.8 percent next year, fifth best in the state for a city that is typically number one or two. Four metropolitan areas will grow faster: Columbus (3 percent) Brunswick (2.9 percent), Savannah (2.5 percent) and Valdosta (2 percent). What will be holding Atlanta back in 2006? Does it have something to do with recent headlines?
Georgia County Excellence Awards
Georgia is the 24th biggest state in the union but it has the second highest number of counties. That's 159 local governments crammed into a tight space, all of them scrambling to provide services for their citizens, accentuating their limited capacities for revenue generation, competing with one another for business, or joining forces to maximize their collective resources.
Special Commendation: A Shining Example
Seven counties joined forces in a precedent-setting effort to create the Middle Flint Regional E911 Authority. Schley, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Sumter, Taylor and Webster counties formed the authority in late 2001 to provide 911 service for all their residents.
Shining Moments: Bulldog Larry Rakestraw owned the 1963 Orange Bowl
For a college football career, you can talk about your Charley Trippi, your Frank Sinkwich and your Herschel Walker, but for one single game the name that stands out is Larry Clyde Rakestraw.
Holding Steady
Georgia's residential real estate market may not be booming, but it sure isn't declining. The real hot spots are on the coast, in the mountains and inside Atlanta's Perimeter.
All The Right Moves
Transforming ships' cargo into retail merchandise is the task of the transportation networks, distribution centers, warehouse facilities and computer systems that make up the fast-growing logistics industry.
Tourism Boosters
As the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area in terms of the size of its travel and tourism industry, Atlanta is behind only New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The metro area also ranks fifth in terms of total tourism employment, with about 160,000 jobs in tourism-related industries.
2006 TrendSetter Cities Of Excellence
For the seventh year Georgia Trend and the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) are continuing a partnership to recognize municipalities that have taken unusual steps to get the maximum from their budgets and widen citizens' participation in local government.
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