The Poverty Factor
Stephanie Jones was born into the “it’s not what you know, but who you know” world, and her close-knit family didn’t know the right people. Her family’s Appalachian roots run deep in the Eastern Kentucky coalmines, and Jones grew…
Features
Charting A Financial Course
In 1980, Robert Balentine, then a 23-year-old fresh-faced wealth manager, was sitting in the Atlanta Merrill Lynch office when a prospective client walked in with a suitcase full of bearer bonds, the equivalent of cash at the time, and…
2012 Best Places To Work In Georgia
For the seventh year, Georgia Trend asked readers to nominate their companies for our annual Best Places To Work roster and tell us what makes them such good employers. Nominations came from all levels of employees in all kinds…
A Water Update
Are the water wars really over? It would seem so, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in June that Atlanta can access water from Lake Lanier and Gov. Nathan Deal promising $300 million for new reservoirs. The…
Deal Of The Year
Economic development wins come in all sizes.
2012 Silver Spoon Awards
Are Georgia’s diners better off today than they were a year ago? That slightly revised campaign slogan is what I weigh each year as I sit down to write our annual Silver Spoons story. As in nearly every other sector,…
Cancer Care In Georgia: New Age, New Options
When Janita Green got her breast cancer diagnosis three years ago, it made absolutely no sense to her. “I didn’t believe it. I was young, active and healthy,” says Green, a CPA for a consulting firm in Atlanta. “I…
The Carter Center At 30 Years
Jimmy Carter must have figured out a way to recycle time, because the man doesn’t waste a minute. He gets more done before lunch than most people half his age accomplish in a day, reading a cyber-stack of newspapers…
2012 Family Business Awards
Winners of this year’s competition, sponsored by Kennesaw State University’s Cox Family Enterprise Center.
Showcasing Agriculture
It’s another sultry August in Perry at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agri-center (GNFA), where Republicans are frying fish to raise money in the eighth district, young farmers are meeting en masse to show their goats or cattle, the…
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