Like a boulder dropped from an airplane into a small pond, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG) caused a tsunami when it landed in West Point – the plant began production seven years ago this month – and the tidal waves…
On the leafy Emory University campus, on the fourth floor of the Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Adam Marcus and his research team are studying how leader and follower cancer cells metastasize – what causes them to break away from the…
Apologies to Dinah Washington, but … What a difference a year makes. At the time I wrote last year’s Silver Spoons, Atlanta was poised on the brink of a dining revolution. I wondered how the brand-new Ponce City Market (PCM),…
A CEO, a marketing manager and an entrepreneur walk into a bar. They won’t sit together because they’re in different cities, Boston, New Orleans and San Francisco. But when they swipe credit cards after drinks with colleagues, they’ll share something…
Courtney Gaines was always an active, independent and social person. Neither she nor her family wanted anything to change that, so when the early effects of Alzheimer’s complicated by a fall made it difficult for her to get out of…
With morning gridlock that can last as late as 10 a.m. and an afternoon rush hour that begins as early as 3 p.m., Atlanta is infamous for its traffic. This November, however, Atlanta citizens and those throughout Fulton County will…
No question, Georgia has a shortage of public school teachers. It’s gotten harder to recruit them – there’s a smaller pool of candidates – and harder to retain them as job satisfaction has declined. Enrollment in University System of Georgia…
There’s a multibillion-dollar industry growing in Georgia, but it’s been just under the radar so far. Bioscience – a massive sector encompassing pharmaceuticals, medical devices and equipment, diagnostics, biologics and the burgeoning area of digital health IT – generates more…
This year Georgia Trend celebrates 20 years of honoring outstanding Georgians under the age of 40 – the state’s best and brightest – and looks back at 20 of our picks from years past to find out where they are…
Check out the view as you drive around Georgia. Cranes dot the Atlanta skyline. Houses are going up across the state. Commercial construction can be seen from the mountains to the coast. There’s one sector of the economy that doesn’t…
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