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Beverly Hall was at her wits’ end, ready to throw in the towel after just six months on the job as the Atlanta Public Schools superintendent. It’s not that Hall didn’t know what she was getting into a decade ago…
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Beverly Hall was at her wits’ end, ready to throw in the towel after just six months on the job as the Atlanta Public Schools superintendent. It’s not that Hall didn’t know what she was getting into a decade ago…
Sit down with Beheruz Sethna for just a few minutes of conversation and you may feel an uncontrollable urge to buy something. Sit with him for an hour and you might pull out the Visa or ask for a sales…
Jenna Guthrie is standing in the crowded kitchen of a home in a neighborhood of mossy oaks on St. Simons Island. It’s nearing noon and she’s been cooking under hot lights, tracked by a TV camera for more than four…
It was time for a change in sprawling DeKalb County – and the man who’s now at its helm, newly elected county CEO Burrell Ellis, is under no illusions that restructuring county government, closing a $60 million budget gap and…
There’s a swarm of activity in west central Georgia. The hum of automated manufacturing lines, heavy machinery and futuristic processing systems is heating up the climate, in anticipation of some 30,000 newcomers converging on two gigantic developments: the opening of…
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