Organizations: Statewide Independent Living Council
Candice Dyer highlights the Statewide Independent Living Council.
Georgia Trend - March 2013
Sustainable Georgia: Greening Things Up
Many of the larger players in the logistics industry deserve recognition for their sustainability initiatives.
Economy: Information, Please
Spending on information services will grow much faster than state GDP in 2013.
La Grotta: Underground Power Grid
Atlanta’s venerable Italian mainstay, La Grotta, serves the city’s movers and shakers a contemporary version of beloved classic dishes.
Power Players: Transforming Healthcare
The newly rebooted Center for Health Transformation is nonprofit and nonpartisan. WellStar CEO Reynold Jennings wants to make it a learning lab for real solutions.
Effingham County: Banking On Location
It’s a well-worn theme in real estate that location is really what matters. It can also be the deciding factor for the success of a county or region as well. That’s one way economic developers explain the ability of…
The Welcome Mat Is Out
On Tybee Island, an offshore suburb of Sav-annah, tourism entrepreneur Diane Kaufman manages 50 rental properties, historic cottages and houses built between the early 1900s and the 1950s. When she finished counting the 2012 receipts from her company, Mermaid…
Valdosta | Lowndes County: Building On Strength
Normally a soft-spoken man, Bill Forbes finds himself having to raise his voice a few decibels to be heard over the sounds of construction coming at him from all sides as he stands at the entrance to Valdosta’s South…
Macon | Bibb County: Consolidation And Diversity
Leaders in the middle Georgia city of Macon and Bibb County learned that diversity is a key to economic development and the vibrancy of a community. Nine years ago, the departure of tobacco giant Brown & Williamson left a…
2013 Counties Of Excellence
Providing good services while being re-sponsible stewards of the public’s money is always challenging, especially in a tough economy. The eighth annual Georgia Counties of Excellence awards program, sponsored by the Association County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) in partnership…
