Kennesaw State University is all grown up. Originally chartered as a two-year junior college 50 years ago – Oct. 9, 1963, to be precise – KSU is now the third-largest university in Georgia with more than 24,600 students from 132…
Restaurants have always been volatile businesses – the first to wink out in a downturn; the first green shoots to crop up with an uptick. If Georgia’s restaurants in the last year are any indication of the larger business community,…
Nathan Deal was elected to the state legislature as a Democrat, then got elected and re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat, then switched parties in the middle of his second Congressional term, then got re-elected seven…
Folks driving along busy Peachtree Road north of Buckhead have probably caught a glimpse of Oglethorpe University behind the stone walls and wrought iron fencing and imagined the place to be exclusive and stuffy. Those folks would be wrong.…
Nick Boulis has the audacity to believe, out loud, that discoveries and therapies designed to improve the human condition – world-changing breakthroughs that have been happening and are happening right now in Georgia – are just as important as…
Our 17th annual list of achievers from business, government, healthcare and nonprofits.
The waves of bank closures that washed over the state during the recession – many tied to toxic real estate loans – gave rise to predictions that recovery could be long and slow. But Georgia’s banking industry has proved…
The United States healthcare system is messed up. It’s a mangled wreck at the bottom of a smoking crater. We spend more, by far, on healthcare than any other country, more than $2.5 trillion annually, about 18 percent of…
When news broke late last year that IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. – ICE, the Atlanta-based energy trading company started by CEO Jeffrey Sprecher 13 years ago – was buying the New York Stock Exchange for some $8.2 billion, there were rumblings…
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