Finish The Drill?
It’s as close to paradise as you can get and still be within the geographical confines of Georgia. I am referring to the scenic beauty of our coast and its Golden Isles, one of the major attractions for tourists who…
Georgia Trend - August 2008
Fields And Yields
It’s just after dawn on a Thursday morning and South Georgia farmer Brian Robinson is standing in a field of waist-high wheat pulling the grain off the top of one of the shafts. He tosses the kernels in his mouth…
The Soccer Explosion
The seeds of a national revolution were planted 40 years ago in Atlanta, when Phil Woosnam guided a soccer team stocked with foreigners to the city’s first major league sports championship. Throughout that summer of 1968 the Atlanta Chiefs played…
Planning Without Boarders
When Catherine Ross looks at a map of the Southeastern United States, city limits and state lines start to blur and something else comes into focus. She sees the rough draft of economic salvation, a web of seamless connectivity, metropolitan…
Banking On Relationships
Looking ahead to new homes and new development planned nearby, Ron Francis made the decision earlier this year to set up temporary quarters just steps away from the Marietta Square. He took a historic building on Atlanta Street, vacant since…
The Power Years
Cathy Gaddis spent her career under the hoods of other people’s cars, a single mom raising two sons around a rotating menagerie of pets and in the pits of Oklahoma dirt tracks where she drove her own Fords – “Fords!…
Good Reviews
Georgia’s entertainment industry has come a long way since the big-screen Deliverance and small-screen The Dukes of Hazard, which more or less book-ended the 1970s and put Georgia on the minds of millions of fans. In fact, the state has…
Greenroom: August 2008
Could a cloud of summer smog have a silver lining? Something in the air has Georgia leaders doing right by the GreenRoom. • Fulton Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt-Cummings announced a landmark decision invalidating a permit granted by the State…
LaGrange/Troupe County: The Kia Effect
Just a few years ago Troup County, the westernmost county in Georgia along Interstate 85, could claim the title of former textile capital of Georgia, and not much else when it came to major-league economic development. Now, although there are…
