A particularly memorable experience with the Marlon Perkins Theory of Effective Management Delegation (so named by a copy editor I worked with) occurred when a former boss signed me up to accompany him on a speaking engagement to a prison journalism class at the San Francisco City Jail.
It wasn't Judgment at Paris. At that historic 1976 event, subject of a recent book by the same name, the most revered French critics blind-tasted the most famed French wines against upstart California labels - and to everyone's astonishment, the California wines won. The wine world was never the same.
It's been a good fall for Georgia's greenspace. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources completed the $7.3 million purchase of 2,421 acres of land in Southwest Georgia's Red Hills region in September, along the banks of the Ochlockonee River and Barnetts Creek in Thomas County
Waffle House's Joe Rogers, Jr. explains how the Norcross-based 24-hour restaurant chain's hurricane response effort worked - and why.
To those dedicated to education, the arts and community building, Ann Cramer is the face of IBM.
A look at six Georgia public schools in four cities - three are near the top in rankings; three are near the bottom. But the numbers don't always tell the whole story.
Atlanta's Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is one of the most remarkable places in the country. It covers more than 5,000 acres of land, harbors more than 900 species of trees and 100 species of butterflies and is the southernmost habitat for rainbow and brown trout. Best of all, it's easily accessible to anyone in search of a near-wilderness experience.
So many ships and so much cargo pass through Georgia's deepwater ports at Brunswick and Savannah - with so much efficiency - that business has increased by 150 percent in the past decade and will likely do the same in the next 10 years.
Despite the effects of damaging hurricanes, I expect the nation's economic expansion to continue, but with a moderate slowdown in the pace of growth.
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