Going Global: Leadership Georgia made its first international excursion this summer, taking almost every member of the class of 2009 to Costa Rica. It wasn’t for fun in the sun, either, says the organization’s president, Horace Johnson, Jr. “Costa Rica…
A number of impressive environmental efforts were spotlighted recently by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ first Conserve Georgia Natural Leaders awards, which promote the Conserve Georgia program and successful examples of its different elements: Atlanta’s Clean Air Cam-paign won…
Policy group formed: Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) has formed a new Senate Policy Group, which he will chair, to develop conservative proposals for the 2010 legislative session. The group’s members include Mitch Seabaugh (R-New-nan), Chip Pearson (R-Daw-sonville), Bill…
This past year can be characterized as the worst in Georgia’s economic history, except for the Great Depression. Yet our state has had a surprisingly good run in terms of attracting new companies and new projects for economic development. The…
At my first real newspaper job, on a small Louisiana weekly, as the rookie reporter and the only “girl” in the newsroom, I was given a Polaroid camera and assigned the important task of photographing the weird and wonderful things…
Tim Lowe III knows the reputation engineers have. “Engineers aren’t considered the liveliest bunch,” he says. “The technical disciplines naturally attract people who tend toward introversion.” That being the case, Lowe, 58-year-old managing partner and chairman of the board of…
Tuscumbia, Ala., is famous for being the birthplace of two legends – the late author and lecturer Helen Keller, and two-time All-American tackle for the Georgia Bulldogs, George Edward Patton. Although Patton had established himself as an All-State quarterback by…
I firmly believe that the longest and most severe recession since the Great Depression is over. The recovery that began in the second half of 2009 is not going to fall apart, but it will be bumpy. I don’t expect…
Down here in the South, we are serious about college football. Dead serious. Just last year, two football fans in Brewton, Ala., were arguing so vehemently over the Alabama-LSU game that a “physical altercation” developed, in the language of police.…
Behind the familiar Salvation Army bands and the colorful red collection kettles that appear during the holiday season, evoking Norman Rockwell-like images of humility, good will and charity, is one of America’s most powerful organizations. The “Christian Army,” which came…
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