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Delta Air Lines has long been a major economic engine for Atlanta and Georgia and a big reason Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world’s busiest. Last year Delta emerged from bankruptcy, after successfully repelling a hostile takeover bid from…

The expanding economic ties between Georgia and China were celebrated handsomely, even exuberantly, last spring when Delta launched direct service from Atlanta to Shanghai the same week that Georgia opened a trade office in Beijing. The governor, first lady and…

Put yourself in Garrett Gravesen’s polished, square-toed loafers: You’re 28, a handsome, rail-thin 6’, and in only five years have far exceeded the University of Georgia’s great expectations for its youngest-ever student body president and one of its business school’s…

Tom Bell just didn’t get it. He was the new guy, so he couldn’t possibly know that Grady Memorial Hospital’s financial despair was like traffic or Neal Boortz or gravity – a chronic condition of life in Atlanta, subliminally evident,…

It was like a religious conversion for Jill Stuckey, or maybe the Big Bang, a tree falling in the woods hundreds of miles away, heard and felt. About two years ago she was called to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s office for…

Click on the following link for extra information http://home.earthlink.net/~oldagolda/georgiatrendextra/ The Georgia Municipal Association is paying a lot of attention these days to the proposal to eliminate local property taxes and replace them with sales taxes – a measure that would…

A few years before she became governor of Texas, Ann Richards gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. She began by wryly noting the historic scarcity of women at the podium. “But if you give…

You could forgive Gov. Sonny Perdue for feeling a little like a badly battered heavyweight boxer in 2007. Coming off a smashing reelection victory the previous November, Perdue was preparing for a major role on the national political scene as…