“How do you raise people up so that they can earn a living for themselves and provide for their families? How do you intervene so that the next generation is not stuck … without hope, just barely getting by?” These…
• Boat propellers are believed to have killed four endangered manatees that washed up on the coast of Savannah near Talmadge Bridge in September. A U.S. Geological Survey found that boat collisions are the top long-term threat to manatees; boats…
A few months ago Georgia Trend published our annual Economic Yearbook, a region by region look at Georgia’s economy in the year 2008. It indicated that while things are not going well in other parts of the nation, our state…
Some years ago I was catching up with an old friend who had recently left newspapering. He was the classic ink-in-his-veins news junkie, and it was impossible to imagine him in any other profession. I figured he would be the…
Name Of The Game: When Atlanta’s JVC America Inc. an-nounced earlier this year it would be adding 540,000 square feet to its existing 360,000 square feet of warehouse space, the move was further tribute to Georgia’s solid reputation as logistics…
Georgia’s prolonged and severe housing downturn has nearly run its course. Sales of new homes will bottom out in the final quarter of 2008, and sales of existing homes will bottom in the first quarter of 2009. New home sales…
In the annals of baseball history, few families have been represented across three generations. One that comes to mind – and probably the most successful – is the Bagby family. James Charles Jacob Bagby (Old Sarge) won 129 games, mostly…
“From the time I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to be an architect,” says Norman Davenport Askins, who fulfilled his childhood aspirations on an international scale, having designed and restored buildings from Atlanta to the White House…
I don’t know that there has ever been a Georgia politician who has provided more surprises over the years than Angela Elizabeth Speir, who will soon be stepping down as a member of the Public Service Commission. She came out…
The South is rising again – in biscuits, hoecakes and Coca-Cola bubbles. Despite a difficult economy for restaurants, it has been a Watershed year. And yes, I do mean the Decatur restaurant co-owned by Indigo Girl Emily Saliers and helmed…
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