History Repeating: A.B. Short knows a thing or two about working with surplus items – he got his start in nonprofits with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and moved on to found Café 458, feeding the homeless in downtown Atlanta.…
Georgia’s knight in shining armor this spring proved to be none other than the Atlanta Regional Commission, which saved thousands of commuters one day a week of driving by giving MARTA $25 million to continue full-week operations. The legislature not…
No dealings with Darfur: Even though the General Assembly was a failure when it came to adopting a transportation tax method, lawmakers were on the ball when it came to foreign policy. They passed, and Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into…
“Our Georgia state legislature is an embarrassment, completely unreliable.” This was a comment I made during the annual LINK trip last month to Minneapolis-St. Paul. Every spring for the last 14 years, Metro Atlanta area community leaders have visited other…
Sign of the times, perhaps, but everybody seems to be mad about something – the economy, the stock market, the unemployment rate, the auto industry. Or mad at somebody – Bernie Madoff and the greedy AIG bonus-snatchers, most recently. Once…
One of the hottest seats in the Georgia House of Representatives during this year’s session belonged to Rep. Vance Smith, Republican from the 129th District. No surprise, considering that Smith chaired the House Transportation Committee, and transportation funding and governance…
When the going gets tough, the tough go dining. In Macon, an innovative model of “social entrepreneurship” offers the chance to do good by eating well. Looking to create jobs by matching local businesses’ needs with trained workers, Goodwill Industries…
In good as well as tough economic times, the industries that make up the state’s life sciences are reliable sources of employment and spending. In 2007, the life sciences industry’s state-wide economic impact was $16 billion and 62,033 jobs, larger…
For reporters, one of the most frustrating parts of the job is the difficulty of getting an honest answer from a politician. It is a given that a politico who’s hit with a tough question is going to evade, dissemble,…
There’s tangible evidence of a higher power at work in Sandy Springs. It’s on the roof of the Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation sanctuary, where 20 solar photovoltaic modules are capturing the sun’s energy and creating electricity. Down in Bluffton at…
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