At age 77 and still recovering from a near fatal accident, Michael Howard Mescon remains a highly sought-after speaker. But you cannot get him for money alone. He will not speak anywhere unless he is in close proximity to a…
Has the resurrection begun? A few short years ago, it might have been noted as a sign of the impending apocalypse: Reversing the long march of the last few decades, a successful, acclaimed restaurant moves from a popular, well-trafficked mall…
It’s been a long run, but it’s time we sat back and took a break. Few states have experienced quite as much booming prosperity as Georgia did during the 1990s, when development in the Metro Atlanta area exploded and the…
There is as much water today as there was 4 million years ago, when the human population could be measured with a show of hands. Since then, in spite of difficulties that may have sent a lesser species scurrying for…
At the Port of Savannah, mammoth freighters are docked at berths, their holds and decks stacked with containers bearing labels from Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Hamburg, Mexico City and other distant places. Cargo soon will be moved out by truck…
Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School may be the best school you never heard of. The low-profile Augusta school posts the highest SAT average in Georgia year after year. Davidson students averaged 1,710 out of 2,400 this year, far above the…
Andy Landers needed to be anywhere else that winter night of 1979. He had to put some miles between himself and a gut-wrenching, season-ending loss by his Roane State women’s basketball team. So he started driving south, took mountain back…
The joyous holiday season also is the harbinger of another, darker period – tax time. As Georgians were beginning to put their 2007 tax records into good order, Georgia Trend was talking to tax experts for tips on reducing the…
Lawyers' Lawyers For the fifth year, we present Georgia Trend’s roster of the state’s Legal Elite – attorneys selected by their peers as the most effective in 10 different practice areas. To compile the list, Georgia Trend mailed ballots to…
An expanded self-image can be a marvelous economic fertilizer. Throughout Southwest Georgia, cities and counties are striving for a “creative economy.” While not abandoning traditional models – that is, courting relocation-prospect companies with tax breaks and land deals – some…
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