Georgia Trend - March 2011

Art Of The Meal: Social Skills

Tybee Island Social Club 1311 Butler Ave. Tybee Island 912.472.4044 www.tybeeislandsocialclub.com It’s still cold outside, but I’ve already detected Emily Dickinson’s winter afternoon “certain slant of light” – that earliest harbinger of the earth’s revolution, the one you can almost…

Economy: A Brighter Banking Picture

Market conditions will improve for Georgia’s financial institutions, but regulatory changes will create some new challenges. The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act creates new regulators, extends regulations into new areas, provides new protections and gives regulators new abilities…

Georgia View: Betting On Hope

Youth may in fact be “wasted” on the young, but there are few population segments in Georgia facing a potentially more devastating economic triple threat than high school seniors and college students. Drastic cuts in the state budget are likely…

Macon/Bibb County: Emphasize The Positives

Macon, middle Georgia’s mid-sized capital at the intersection of Interstate 16 (to Savannah and I-95) and I-75, has plenty of advantages from northern Bibb County to the southern end, where Georgia drops down to sea level. The beautiful Ocmulgee River…

Valdosta/Lowndes County: Taking Off

It is midmorning in the air traffic control tower at the San Antonio International Airport, and it seems that everything that could go wrong has. Planes are straying from their designated take-off and landing patterns; one recently departed plane is…