Neely Young

Once criticized for being a “do-nothing governor,” Sonny Perdue has recently risen like a phoenix to become the leader he was meant to be. For this he has been chosen as “Georgian of the Year” by our magazine. In our…

I have long enjoyed collecting quips, those one- or two-liners that show a little bit of whimsy and truth. I learned this habit from the late Jimmy Townsend, from Jasper, Ga., who was an author and columnist for many Georgia…

Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Confederate army in 1865, would approve of the heroic actions of journalists in the civil rights era, told in great detail by Hank Klibanoff in his Pulitzer Prize winning book The Race Beat.…

One critic calls Glenn Richardson’s tax proposal the “antithesis” of basic Republican concepts and says it might just as well have come from Ted Kennedy.

Some of Georgia’s best coaches – Doc Ayers, Escue Rogers, Wright Bazemore and Vince Dooley among them – have excelled at teaching lessons that apply to life off the field.

Glenn Richardson wants to change the constitutional system for collecting taxes in Georgia. This would greatly increase the power of his office.

Vancouver: Thinking Upward

Migration As History

Georgia’s rapid growth is threatening our water supply. We are still 15 or 20 years away from a crisis situation, but time is running out. To make matters worse, our state does not fully control its own water resources. Desalination…

Georgia’s giant carpet manufacturing industry could have moved to Mexico, but industry leaders in Dalton put hometown loyalty ahead of Wall Street’s demands and decided to stay put.