Augusta native Michelle Naval Pippin has been part of the city’s Sports Council for 12 years, starting as an intern. She’s served as CEO since November 2021. These are edited highlights from an interview. What is the Augusta Sports Council?…
Josh Dallas comes from a football family. The wide receiver at Georgia Southern University played on a state championship high school team with his twin brother, a quarterback now also at Georgia Southern. Their dad was the coach. Dallas remembers…
A transformative change has arrived in Georgia’s life sciences industry. Not only is it improving the state’s economy, it’s having a real impact on peoples’ lives around the world. The state’s life sciences industry is growing at an unprecedented rate –…
In a time of unprecedented division in our country, it is always worth starting off with a statement that we can all agree with. In this case, I would like to open with such a statement: Georgia is hot. As…
Unless you’re living under a rock, you have probably heard the buzz around the new Threads platform, the Instagram Threads app which Mark Zuckerberg created to rival Elon Musk’s Twitter. Threads is part of Meta, which also owns Facebook and…
EV Batteries: Auto parts maker NVH Korea is opening a facility in Locust Grove. The $72 million investment will create more than 160 jobs in Henry County. The facility will produce battery system parts for electric vehicles made in the…
Of all the occupations affected by the pandemic, perhaps none was affected more or in more ways than nursing – which was already suffering before the first COVID patients started arriving at Georgia hospitals in March of 2020. [caption id="attachment_53640"…
While Augusta is probably best known as home of the Masters Tournament, it was also the childhood home of iconic soul singer James Brown and home of the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Gordon. However, these highlights…
The baseball box score reflects individual and team performance. What it doesn’t reflect, however, is the athlete’s character or his habits and interests when he is not playing ball. As we are painfully aware, many get hooked on drugs; others…
With expanding industries and forward-looking leadership, Albany and Dougherty County are banking on a brighter future for “the Good Life City.” Dougherty County is welcoming its first Tier 1 automotive manufacturer and first foreign industry – Spanish company GRUDEM, which…
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