Healing The Sick
If there ever is a moment of truth this is it: Your life hangs in the balance and you’ve got to choose, right now, where you’d like to go to try and save it. Patti Chism went to her…
Georgia Trend - December 2011
Georgia View: None Like It Hot
The state will soon be bidding the rights for construction of private HOT lanes, without subtracting existing lanes available to commuters for free.
Economy: Reversal Of Fortune
Painful as it has been, the restructuring of Georgia’s economy should enhance the state’s competitiveness going forward.
Plying The Pearl Trade
If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps recession is the mother of re-invention. One thing that’s come out of the great recession and the glacially slow recovery is the need for businesses, large and small, to give their…
Deal Of The Year
For the first time, Georgia Trend highlights winners of the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) Deal of the Year awards. The awards, established in 2007, recognize achievement in locating or expanding new business, says the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority’s…
Art Of The Meal: Escorpion
A contemporary Mexican tequila bar and cantina in Midtown from Riccardo Ullio hits all the right notes, especially for a large group.
Power Players: Back In The Game
Longtime hospital executive Reynold Jennings was lured out of retirement to lead WellStar Health System.
Organizations: Dream Weaving
Candice Dyer writes about Rahab’s Rope in Gainesville, which finances a self-help program for young women
Jasper/Pickens County: From Marble To Manufacturing
Georgia marble from Pickens County has been used to beautify buildings such as the U.S. Capitol, customize countertops, mark graves and – in a pulverized form – keep chewing gum from sticking to its wrapper. But the “Marble Capital…
Jackson County: Logistics And Renewal
Drive north on Interstate 85, and as the sprawl of Atlanta starts to fall away, the traffic thins and you find yourself in Jackson County. At some 60 miles northeast of the city, it is on the exurban edge…
