Georgian Of The Year: Smooth Sailing
Doug J. Marchand is sitting at his desk in front of a huge window on the second floor of the Georgia Ports Authority building located some 18 miles up the Savannah River from the Atlantic Ocean. He is framed by…
Georgia Trend - January 2010
100 Most Influential Georgians: Georgia's Power List
This is the 12th edition of Georgia Trend’s 100 Most Influential Georgians, and it’s different from the others for one main reason – the speaker of the House did not make the cut this year. At presstime, Rep. David Ralston…
The Water Brigade
Despite the heavy autumn rains that ended a two-year drought, Georgia still has water troubles. A federal judge’s ruling that Atlanta has no claim on Lake Lanier water and the three-year timeline imposed for reaching an agreement with Alabama and…
Reinventing Young Harris College
"I can talk until people fall over in a dead faint when I’m excited about something, and I’m really excited about what we’re doing here.” Cathy Cox isn’t kidding. These days, Georgia’s former secretary of state finds herself with much…
Cultural Downshift
By now, businesspeople have become all too familiar with Georgia’s most distressing employment statistics: A half-million people out of work. Statewide unemployment at 10.2 percent. In the state’s most adversely affected area, the metro Dalton area, where carpet and textile…
Cobb County: Forward Progress
The great recession of 2009 may have laid low communities across Georgia, but not Cobb County. While this north metro county has seen job losses and business closures, it also has companies that are still expanding and public works projects…
Americus/Sumter County: Renewal And Recovery
A marker in downtown Americus shows the site of a Confederate hospital that burned to the ground in an 1864 fire that forced thousands of patients into the homes of townspeople, and later into the tents of a makeshift hospital.…
Wilkinson County: Looking Beyond Kaolin
The story of economic development in Wilkinson County may start with kaolin, the white mineral that comes out of the ground along the fall line and makes it way into everything from toothpaste to tires, but area leaders are determined…
