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It’s a tale of 12 Georgia regions: Three have a solid funding source for road improvements; the other nine – including those in the Atlanta metropolitan area – do not. The imbalance is attributable to one penny: the sales tax…
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It’s a tale of 12 Georgia regions: Three have a solid funding source for road improvements; the other nine – including those in the Atlanta metropolitan area – do not. The imbalance is attributable to one penny: the sales tax…
Robert Balentine Chairman and CEO, Balentine, Atlanta Brandon Beach State Senator (R-21); CEO, Greater North Fulton Chamber, Alpharetta Freddy Bensch Big Kahuna, SweetWater Brewing Co., Atlanta Mohammad Bhuiyan President and CEO, Yunus Creative Lab Inc.; CEO, 2015 World Summit of…
Georgia Trend’s 2015 list of 100 Most Influential Georgians includes, as always, some new names and some old ones, as leadership changes and recent achievements combine with resignations, retirements, course corrections and shifts in power to shake the list up.…
Bill Bolling Founder & Executive Director Atlanta Community Food Bank Decatur Age: 66 Bill Bolling doesn't say he is retiring from the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the powerhouse nonprofit he founded in 1976 and where he has served as executive…
University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby has brought a new stability to Georgia’s public colleges
No one ever said mixing business and family was easy. That’s why the recipients of the 2014 Cox Family Business Awards are winners two times over. Not only do they run successful companies, they have found ways to successfully run…
Healthcare in the U.S. and Georgia has seen radical changes over the past few years, including a number of treatment and technology advances, the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and the consolidation or closure of hospitals. And there is…
This December marks the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War’s surrender of Savannah, where in 1864 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ended his infamous March to the Sea. His scorched-earth tactics changed the history of warfare and are still studied…
From Phoenix Air, a Cartersville company with flying emergency rooms that deliver Ebola patients to life-saving treatment in the United States, to a variety of companies working on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS – also known as UAV, unmanned aerial vehicles,…
Our guide for the three-hour Atlanta BeltLine bus tour on a crisp autumn morning is an engaging young man named Sundiata Rush who clearly loves his work. He tells us that “smart growth” and “connectivity” define the project that we…
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