It’s the Friday before Labor Day and 73 employees exit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the last time, the latest round of job buyouts at the tilting daily newspaper. As he watches colleagues leave for the longest holiday weekend of their…
It’s easy for a CEO to say he cares about his employees. But Ben Hinson of Mid Georgia Ambulance Service in Macon puts his words into action, giving loans up to $3,000 to employees who are struggling financially. If the…
It is mid-afternoon and Yvonne Williams steers her SUV in and out of light traffic, crisscrossing the Perimeter area on the northern side of Atlanta pointing out to her passenger office towers, restaurants, roads, residential high rises, municipal buildings, pedestrians,…
Drivers rounding the curve near exit 16 on Interstate 520 in Augusta top a bridge stretching across manmade lakes, filled after a local company excavated clay to make bricks. In the distance are a cluster of stacks from industrial plants…
When he was first elected in 2002, Gov. Sonny Perdue set out to bring business practices and principles to state government – with a little help from his friends. The result was The Commission For A New Georgia (CNG), formed…
If you want to understand why Rome, Georgia, has become home to so many industries, look no further than the boardroom of Coosa Valley Technical College. On one wall a framed plaque commemorates four major manufacturers that the school helped…
In this Olympic year, many people in Georgia were waxing nostalgic about the 1996 Atlanta games. Folks in Rockdale County, however, don’t have to reminisce. A trip to the Georgia International Horse Park, built for the 1996 Olympics and still…
Sylvania is one of those small Georgia towns (pop. 2,541) where everybody knows your name, and if they don’t they soon will – and they’ll know the name of everyone in your family, your history, your likes and dislikes; and…
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