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Destination: Kennesaw State

  Anyone subscribing to the notion that Kennesaw State University is a place where students go to college when they can’t get in anywhere else needs to wake up and smell the fair trade coffee served at The Grind Coffee…

Ganging Up On The Debt

  Georgia’s senior U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, is one of the leaders of the Senate’s so-called Gang of Six, a group he founded with Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia to try and tackle the problem of America’s $14.5-trillion…

Top Georgia Hospitals

  For the second year, Georgia Trend is publishing statewide hospital rankings, this time for 17 different categories, including cardiac care, stroke treatment and joint replacement. The rankings are compiled by HealthGrades, Inc., a leading healthcare ratings organization, which ranks…

Healing The Sick

  If there ever is a moment of truth this is it: Your life hangs in the balance and you’ve got to choose, right now, where you’d like to go to try and save it. Patti Chism went to her…

Plying The Pearl Trade

  If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps recession is the mother of re-invention. One thing that’s come out of the great recession and the glacially slow recovery is the need for businesses, large and small, to give their…

Deal Of The Year

  For the first time, Georgia Trend highlights winners of the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) Deal of the Year awards. The awards, established in 2007, recognize achievement in locating or expanding new business, says the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority’s…

One Size Does Not Fit All

  Dr. Carol Rountree remembers it well, the warning handed down by the Rich-mond County School System superintendent almost 10 years ago, in which he stressed the potentially disastrous pitfalls of placing too much weight on a standardized test. The…