You could forgive Gov. Sonny Perdue for feeling a little like a badly battered heavyweight boxer in 2007. Coming off a smashing reelection victory the previous November, Perdue was preparing for a major role on the national political scene as…
Places in Georgia Trend’s Most Influential Georgians Hall of Fame are reserved for individuals whose achievements and accomplishments ensure them a permanent place on any roster of prominent and powerful Georgians. The 2008 honorees are baseball legend Hank Aaron, former…
“I feel like I’ve been in the construction business these last six years,” says Bill Jones III of the near-finished, $500 million restoration and expansion of his Sea Island Resorts. “I’m looking forward to getting back to the hospitality business.”…
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Michael Thurmond, sitting in the conference room of his Atlanta office discussing the job market for 2008, zeroes in on a key development. “The first baby boomer [has] qualified for Social Security,” he says. Thurmond is…
Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, provides electrical power to some 2.25 million customers in 155 counties in the state. The firm, which earned $787 million in 2006, formally requested a $406 million rate increase from the…
Like an American flag planted into the lunar surface, the shiny slab of black granite seems oddly out of place amid the hardwoods and rolling hills in a pristine patch of Canton in Cherokee County. It bears the inscription “The…
Click on the following link for extra information http://home.earthlink.net/~oldagolda/georgiatrendextra/ It all began with a single tree, a black cherry tree that became Spence Rosenfeld’s giving tree. One that gave him great joy as a boy, a refuge and way-cool hangout…
There is no such thing as a perfect 10. What would be the point? “Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in,” writes Leonard…
Michael Adams President University of Georgia Athens Age: 59 UGA continues to be recognized as one of the nation’s best business and public research universities. Adams’ efforts to improve student quality are reflected in the growing campus. Total construction initiated…
Gena Abraham, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation Ray Anderson, Founder/Chairman, Interface, Inc. Charles Bannister, Chairman, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners Robert Benham, Justice, Georgia Supreme Court Sally Bethea, Executive Director, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Neal Boortz, talk show host, WSB Radio…
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