A native of Mooresville, N.C., Steve Lewis was in high school when family friends, two accountants and one attorney, piqued his interest in the professions. He decided he wanted to be a tax lawyer. “I’m probably the only kid in…
Thirteen years ago, in the Legends column of Georgia Trend, you may have read about the amazing life led by Atlanta-born and -bred Baron Henry (Bud) Asher. But even if you did, to paraphrase the Al Jolson, “You ain’t read…
Macon will see 1.3 percent job growth in 2011, and Warner Robins will see about 1.2 percent. Those rates of increase are about the same as I expect for both the state and the nation. Several of the economic development…
My grandmother taught me an early lesson: It’s okay to ask important people for their time and help, but just be careful not to waste their time. During the 2010 General Assembly, then House Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons…
It would take a good old-fashioned Southern word like “bodacious” to describe the reaction of leaders in LaGrange and Troup County to their good fortune. It starts with location. The county sits at the northern end of a 45-mile corridor…
Bo Chance has seen the pattern before: first, the faraway look; then, the wide-awake consciousness that may have come from the splash of a cold mountain stream or the sudden realization that what is really important is right here, right…
Few counties in Georgia offer as much of a contrast as Oconee, with its bustling Highway 316 commercial corridor in the north and its wide-open spaces in the rural south. The beauty of this is that it’s all by design,…
You don’t hear much complaining about the economy in Albany and Dougherty County these days. Sure, the area has seen some tough times over the years. Two separate floods in the last decade have severely damaged Albany. Some of the…
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