Welcoming Visitors: The 1996 Summer Olympics may have been splashier, but the Georgia Council for Inter-national Visitors has been quietly introducing the world to our state’s many and varied assets for nearly 50 years. The GCIV has the task of…
Gov. Sonny Perdue has endorsed a transportation funding plan, finally. He has also proposed $3 billion in bonds over the next 10 years to get transportation projects rolling. The regional “T-SPLOST” plan, which allows counties to band together to create…
Amburn in charge: House Speaker David Ralston picked Spiro Amburn, previously the legislative affairs director for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, as his chief of staff. Amburn earlier was Gov. Sonny Perdue’s deputy legislative affairs director. “Spiro is not…
Rep. David Ralston, the new Speaker of the House who replaced Glenn Richardson, is a breath of fresh air. “New wine drinks fine” as the saying goes. Richardson surrounded himself with people who despised local government. Some say Ralston must…
If I were a good, hard-working, committed public servant – say, a state legislator – who paid for my own meals, remained faithful to my spouse and was smart enough to make up my mind on important votes without benefit…
Renee Lewis Glover Atlanta President and CEO Atlanta Housing Authority When Renee Glover came to the Atlanta Housing Authority in 1994, the city had a larger percentage of its citizens living in public housing than any other major American city.…
Forget the iron bars. That bleak, defining image of jail – and the files, hacksaws and clanging metal cups that go with it – no longer holds in sleek, modern cell design. “We had one client request the bars awhile…
It got to where Paul Smith couldn’t feed his dogs without losing his breath or feeling chest pains. Couldn’t hunt, couldn’t even take a bath. The exertion was killing him. “I was living, but just living, wasn’t much functioning to…
With money especially tight, counties are being called upon to do more with less. The six winners of this year’s County Excellence Awards – Chatham, Cobb, Decatur, Heard, Liberty and Mitchell counties – have demonstrated an ability to provide their…
In two decades as a Savannah resident, Linda Bleicken never saw Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) in her future. As a professor and provost at the much larger Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, she was happy where she was and…
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