Georgia View: A New-City Epidemic
Demographic and political shifts across Fulton, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties continue to fuel a surge of new cities.
Georgia Trend - July 2012
Sustainable Georgia: Making Connections
By 2010, demand for public transportation on behalf of the elderly is expected to grow by 81 percent.
Art Of The Meal: Cardamom Hill
Chef Asha Gomez pays tribute to the sophisticated cuisine from India’s coastal state of Kerala in her peaceful, serene restaurant near Atlanta’s booming West Midtown food scene.
Economy: Asian Buying Power
The increasing number of successful Asian entrepreneurs helps boost the group’s spending clout.
Birds Of A Feather
A modest attempt to supplement the family’s farm income on the part of Tommy Newberry and his wife, Ann, in 1960 has grown to a multi-million dollar operation for Kay and Paschal Brooks, the couple’s daughter and son-in-law. Quail…
Sports Legends: When A One-Hitter Wasn't Enough
Sandy Koufax and Bobby Hendley – two peas in a pod. They pitched against each other in one of the great duels in the modern history of major league baseball. Hendley had beaten Koufax once, but this was to…
Statesboro/Bulloch County: Brisk Business
It is mid-morning at the Great Dane trailers plant in Statesboro’s Gateway Regional Industrial Park. A workman is monitoring a programmable plasma cutter as it slices through steel. Nearby, aluminum sheets are being bent as another refrigerated semi-truck trailer takes…
On The Road Again
When the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) launched its nonprofit organization, the Georgia Cities Foundation, back in 1999, the idea was to furnish a means of improving the state’s downtowns by offering financial assistance from a revolving loan program. In…
Douglasville/Douglas County: Coming Back
Once a community is hit by recession, it can sometimes be hard to know when the recovery is under way. For Douglas County residents, the evidence can be found in bricks and mortar and a business climate that is…
More Than Cookies And Camping
When Clementi Holder became a Girl Scout in 1930, she learned how to gather twigs and build a fire in the woods. “Of course, you can’t do that now,” says Holder, 91, of Athens. “The laws are different.” Nevertheless,…
