When 26-year-old Tai Le finished college four years ago, she stepped into her first job as a recruiter at a private placement company in Atlanta where she helped engineers find employment. But the job was short lived. “I worked there…
Just about every town has them. Old commercial or industrial areas that were once bustling now have buildings sitting empty. Most of them are not beyond hope – they’ve just seen better days and are in need of a boost…
Consider the wondrous sausage biscuit: A thing of simple beauty, with browned bits of spiced pork between fresh-baked bread. Those of us who are old enough, and came from an agrarian background, remember when it was a part of a…
Farm Burger 410B West Ponce de Leon Decatur 404.378.5077 www.farmburger.net Credit cards: All major. Reservations: Not accepted. Parking: In attached lot. Dress code: Anything you don’t mind dripping ketchup on. If, as the saying goes, “You are what you eat,”…
I have heard of falling in love in the classroom, at a dance and even at an opera. But falling in love running the Sanford Stadium steps? Sounds crazy, no? Well, you have not met one of the world’s great…
Working as a tour guide fresh out of college might not seem like a dream job, but for Tom Hughes, now senior vice president at Hope-Beckham public relations and marketing agency, it was ideal. “I was on the front lines…
The 2011 Georgia forecast calls for the inflation-adjusted GDP to increase by 2.3 percent, a significant improvement over the 1 percent increase estimated for 2010. The annual percentage gain in the state’s GDP this year will essentially match that of…
An editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich depicted moving day at the Governor’s Mansion. As Gov.-elect Nathan Deal unpacks, he comments that he will have “some pretty big shoes to fill.” Meanwhile, the movers find shoes better suited…
Cobb County is a powerful force in Metro Atlanta, and its leadership shifts make regional waves. In the past year voters elected local businessman Tim Lee chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners, after longtime commission chair Sam Olens…
This swath of Central Georgia west of Macon is a hard land that has been plagued by disappearing textile mills and record high unemployment. Yet these days folks in Thomaston and Upson County are talking about resurrected and revitalized communities…
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