Longtime Georgia Trend political columnist Bill Shipp knows where all of the bodies are buried in the state’s political past. Shipp covered Georgia politics for more than 50 years, from the early days of the Civil Rights Movement to 2009,…
Thirty years ago, a lot of Georgians might have told you the state had already changed about as much as it could. Not so, as it turns out.
Over the past 30 years, the number of people who have influenced and changed Georgia are too many to count. Still, there are some whose effect – whether by their personal convictions or through the positions they hold – is…
Mike Mosquito with UHY Advisors in Atlanta plays golf three or more times a week. A former SEC golfer at Auburn, he’s built his career using golf as an entrée to the world of business leaders. He understands that the…
It had been a rough year for Jen Hilburn and the environmental advocacy group she heads, but the Altamaha Riverkeeper had something big to celebrate in May: The state Department of Transportation denied an out-of-state energy firm’s request to build…
When a military base closes, there are plenty of unknowns. What will the economic impact be? How will the community respond? What will happen to the land? In Georgia, a Navy school and two Army bases shuttered by the 2005…
The battle is pretty much over for renewable energy; it is no longer a fringe cause. Solar, wind and biomass are part of the energy mix. Sure, there are skirmishes ahead, mostly over timetables and methodologies, but fossil fuels like…
On a warm, sunny day, people pour off a bus in downtown Woodstock. Conversations continue as they walk up the sidewalk to the Chambers at City Center, a beautifully renovated 1913 church sanctuary that’s now used as meeting and event…
Even if you don’t feel like starting or growing a business now, you probably will if you spend any time in Columbus. Thanks to several far-reaching, hot-ticket programs based at its university, the city is establishing itself as the Southeast’s…
Mining is the only work that Tommie Wilson, 79, and Hoyt Sanders, 76, have known. Wilson began loading kaolin in 1956 and Sanders began working in the mines in east Georgia in 1957. They started out at $1.28 and $1.34…
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