Features

Education, Features

Core Connections

Patty Rasmussen,

  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.…
Business Industry, Features, Health Care

Cell Mates

Jerry Grillo,

  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…
Education, Features

Class Act

Jerry Grillo,

  Barbara Grimm couldn’t imagine sending her son Will to their Savannah neighborhood’s middle school, where the academic expectations were low and discipline was almost nonexistent – not the combination she was looking for. Grimm, a teacher who left the…
Business Industry, Features

Making A Comeback

Ed Lightsey,

  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…
Features, Health Care

Unintended Consequences

Jerry Grillo,

  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…
Business Industry, Features, People

Energizing The Markets

Susan Percy,

  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…
Education, Features

Stemming The Dropout Tide

Ben Young,

  Ninth grade is a critical year for struggling students, a time when school can seem overwhelming. “In general, ninth grad-ers are still immature,” says Josh Morreale, principal of Cobb Coun-ty’s Osborne High School. “If we can get them to…
Economic Development Features, Features

Big Impact

Ed Lightsey,

  Last March the Georgia General Assembly recognized Cobb County’s Cumberland Community Improvement Dis-trict (CID) on the occasion of its 25th year as a self-assessed taxing district, a political subdivision allowed under a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 1984.…