Features

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.…