Don't lose sleep over Wayne Mason's pulling out of the Beltline. He wanted residents before transit, which would have made surrounding areas miserable with traffic, and he opposed creation of a multimodal transit facility that would pick up commuters using the proposed Lovejoy light rail line in Atlanta.
A slender Reed: Ralph Reed was effectively banished from the state's political scene with his crushing defeat by Casey Cagle in the GOP primary for lieutenant governor, but his influence here will live on after he is gone. An anti-tax…
Overton Junction completed; The Georgia Brain Train.
The country's economic expansion will continue in 2007, but at a slower pace - due primarily to the housing situation.
Does Governor Perdue's smashing re-election victory set the stage for a triumphant second term, or is it a high point from which he, like other second-termers, slides slowly into lame duck status?
Economic development updates for DeKalb County, Rome/Floyd County and Lake Oconee.
If Lake Oconee is “the engine that has driven the whole economy” of the area, as Roddie Anne Blackwell, president of the Eatonton-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce says, then Reynolds Plantation is the key that cranks that engine.
No geography courses are offered at Rome’s Coosa Valley Technical College, but that hasn’t kept the school’s president from developing an intense interest in the subject.
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