Mission-Driven: Officially chartered in 1875, the school that became Dor-chester Academy owes its existence to an organization known as the American Missionary Association (AMA). The group began as an abolitionist movement before the Civil War and opened schools for freedmen…
Talk about calling out the cavalry: Gov. Sonny Perdue’s new Water Contingency Task Force, announced in October, consists of more than 80 heavy hitters throughout the state, chaired by John Brock (Coca-Cola Enterprises) and Tim Lowe (Lowe Engineers). Its focus…
Howard award: This year’s winner of the Rock Howard Award from the state Board of Natural Resources will be Reid Harris, a retired attorney from St. Simons Island who sponsored one of the state’s most important environmental laws, the Coastal…
Every December I write a Christmas column full of quips and quotes. The late Jimmy Townsend, the famous sage of Jasper, got me started about 40 years ago when I was editor of the weekly newspaper, The Cherokee Tribune, in…
We all have our “worry lists” that encompass items great, small and in-between: things that matter to the universe and things that matter only to us. The big topics on my list include world peace, the economy, global warming, affordable…
The word came down from Atlanta late in July, about a week before teachers in the Peach County school system reported to work for the 2009-2010 school year. “We were told, essentially, that we had to cut almost $800,000 from…
Georgians are holding their breath, awaiting the results of the upcoming legislative session, hoping that a new funding source for transportation will be created and some solutions offered for the state’s transportation problems. With gas prices creeping back up, voter…
The Commerce Club, the premier meeting place for Atlanta’s civic-minded business community since it was founded in 1960, will combine its membership with the One Ninety One Club and move from its Broad Street location to the 49th floor of…
Hospitals are scary and necessary motherships of healing where medical miracles happen daily, and where tens of thousands of people die unnecessarily every year. Patients, who don’t want to be there to begin with, have to confront their illnesses and…
It was a heart-stopping moment for Columbus’ Mike Gaymon back in 1996 when word leaked out that one of his community’s most valuable corporate citizens, the credit card processing giant TSYS, was thinking of relocating. “They were talking about 2,500…
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