Friendly Skies: Angel Flight’s mission is to transport patients who need specialized medical care that isn’t available to them locally and who can’t afford to make the trip on their own, says the organization’s executive director Jeanine Chambers Biron. Passenger…
Georgia needs both high-speed passenger rail and the Atlanta Beltline (a 22-mile ring of light rail and parks) to remain a viable economic player in the 21st century, but these two trains are currently on a collision course: Amtrak wants…
Mentoring Assistance: When the Atlanta consulting firm Pathbuilders, Inc. was founded in 1995, the company’s mission centered on helping talented women further their careers. The idea was to unite promising candidates with mentors from outside their corporate culture who could…
When Sonny Perdue upset Gov. Roy Barnes in the race for Governor a few years ago a friend of mine from Florida called to say: “This is a strange Republican party you have in Georgia, where the GOP candidate sided…
If you’re looking for bad news, you don’t have to look very hard or very far: a statewide unemployment rate north of 8 percent and a budget deficit that may top $2 billion; plants closing or relocating; retail operations going…
How do I love dim sum? Let me count the ways: I love the depth and breadth and speed of it. I love the excitement and hustle and low cost of it. But most of all, of course, when it…
His second year on the job in 2008, Culpepper “Cully” Clark, dean of the prestigious Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, bought a television station. Technically, the University of Georgia Research Foundation, a UGA-affiliated…
Memo to the National Football League Hall of Fame: What are the criteria for membership? It’s certainly not sheer performance or else Maxie Calloway Baughan, Jr. would have been selected a long time ago. How can you admit players with…
Although the Columbus area economy will be in recession through mid-2009, the downturn is mild, and the recovery will be vigorous. The expansion at Fort Benning is the main factor underpinning my optimism; but I am counting on the new…
One of the hallmarks of Gov. Sonny Perdue’s administration has been his consistent cutbacks in state formula funding for Georgia’s public school systems. In nearly every budget he’s proposed since first taking office, Perdue has included large “austerity cuts” in…
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