For firefighters, crisis response does not always end when the smoke clears. A 32-year-old Morgan County lieutenant and father of a toddler was recently paralyzed from his chest down when his truck overturned en route to a call. So the…
As Georgia Trend honors companies that have boosted their sustainability index in the Southeastern Corporate Sustainability Rankings (see page 39) this month, there seems to be a top-down effect. It is worth noting some of the trends that have boosted…
Retooling HOPE: Not everybody was happy about the changes to Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship, but a bipartisan effort resulted in some adjustments proponents believe the state and its college-bound students can live with for the sake of preserving the program. In…
Our Georgia Legislature has concluded its 2011 session with our elected lawmakers having passed what some call racial, anti-immigration legislation. The target of this punitive legislation is primarily Hispanics because they are a minority and some have broken the law…
The first clue, which I missed completely, came when the moderator of a media panel for a local leadership group assured participating journalists that the audience would go easy on us. It seems a few of the folks had some…
It was a few minutes after 10:00 and the family was settling in for the night when Donna Hyland’s 15-year-old daughter Brooke entered her parents’ bedroom. “We picked her up early from school that day, thought it was probably…
Last year, after 23 years with the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, or ACCG, Ross King became the third executive director in the organization’s history, succeeding Jerry Griffin. ACCG has been around since 1914, although it didn’t have an…
Putting strong sustainability principles into practice is good for business as well as the planet, as more Georgia companies and their stakeholders are discovering. Even a tough economy has not deterred the state’s top corporate citizens from working to strengthen…
Georgia consumers are gradually loosening the tight grip they have had on their money, and the state’s 162 credit unions are cheering that good news – even though they were often the big winners during the darkest days of the…
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