Accelerating Improvements: Congestion along the Georgia 400 corridor, which links Atlanta to its northern suburbs, has long been a headache for commuters. But gridlock there has also been a hindrance to growth, especially that of the more than 4,000 businesses…
• Voters in Forsyth County approved a $100 million bond for greenspace, parks and recreation on Super Tuesday. Cumming Mayor H. Ford Gravitt had opposed both the greenspace bond and the continuation of a one-cent SPLOST tax for road improvements,…
No more in Darfur: In the latest legislative foray into foreign policy, a bipartisan group of state senators introduced a bill that would prohibit the state’s pension funds from holding investments in companies that are selling military weapons to the…
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union many predicted that democracy would soon sweep the world. It didn’t, and this is why. While many regions of the old Soviet Union have turned to…
It always takes me by surprise to realize that there are people who go out of their way to avoid talking politics. Among my friends and colleagues, political talk is one of life’s great pleasures, on a par with homegrown…
Even if we manage to dodge a recession in 2008, the extended housing downturn, the broadened credit crunch and elevated energy prices will work to slow retail sales growth. The sharp housing downturn will do the most damage to households’…
Matt Towery, 48, defies pigeon-holing. He’s an outspoken semi-pundit who doesn’t socialize much with anyone, let alone political types. He’s a free-thinking conservative whose business partner, Pierre Howard, trounced him in the 1990 lieutenant governor’s race. He benefited from the…
Talk about a glutton for punishment: Consider the case of William Thomas Stanfill, one of the greatest linemen ever for both the University of Georgia and the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins. While playing with the Dolphins, in 1975, Stanfill…
Perched on the lip of the downtown connector’s 14th Street exit in Atlanta, the Niyomkuls’ first restaurant, Tamarind, was a handy place to meet out-of-town guests. But as the place grew more popular, making the left-hand turn got trickier –…
This is all too typical, alas, of your legislature in action. On a cold Friday morning in February, the House of Representatives devoted most of its time debating and then passing HR 1034, a meaningless resolution that urges the NCAA…
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