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Features, Health Care

Healing Hearts

Mary Anne Dunkin,

  The most common cause of disability and death among Georgians is heart disease, but its toll is decreasing.  According to a recent study in the journal American Family Physician, just 6 percent of Americans had coronary heart disease in…
Features, People

Simple Beginnings, Huge Successes

Ed Lightsey,

  Truett Cathy presides over a $5-billion-a-year corporation built on the simplest of concepts, a boneless chicken breast sandwich covered in a seasoned coating and served on a hamburger bun. “People say there is nothing so great about putting out…
Features, People

Big Dreams, Big Achievements

Susan Percy,

  Herman Russell’s Castleberry Hill office is close – but not too close – to the offices of H.J. Russell & Company, the mega-construction firm he started years ago that is now run by his son, Michael. It’s a quick…
Features, People

Georgia’s New Trustees

Susan Percy,

A fast-food pioneer and a construction industry entrepreneur, both known for their philanthropy, are the new Georgia Trustees for 2013. Truett Cathy, founder of the Chick-fil-A chain of restaurants, and Herman Russell, founder of H.J. Russell & Company and a…
Economic Development Features, Features

On A Roll

Ben Young,

  In spite of a gloomy forecast for transportation after the statewide T-SPLOST referendum last summer, the clouds have cleared, and the future is brighter, not darker.  Although seven of 10 districts voted it down, a band of Middle Georgia…
Business Industry, Features

Keeping The Lights On

Ed Lightsey,

In 1975, the Georgia General As-sembly was under the control of largely rural and almost completely Democratic lawmakers, many of whom proudly labeled their chambers “The Home of Home Rule.” It was in such an atmosphere that enabling legislation was…