If they did nothing else, enterprising young restaurateur brothers Chris and Alex Kinjo would already be assured of a Hall of Fame placement in Atlanta’s restaurant world. First, they opened MF Sushibar in Midtown, the likes of which our town…
If your only source of information about Georgia’s public schools was the news releases distributed by the office of state school Supt. Kathy Cox, you’d think that our kids are surely being educated in the best of all possible worlds.…
For 10 years, Ben DeCosta has been general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest. The city of Atlanta-owned airport is home to Delta Air Lines, on track to become the world’s largest carrier when its merger with…
In the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead’s elegant, empty Dining Room, staffer Michael Lueptow is in his shirt sleeves, methodically opening, sorting and numbering 30 wines from a dozen Georgia winemakers into three categories – whites, reds and desserts. Upstairs, a few Georgia…
When Ken Baxley was diagnosed with a mitral valve defect last January, he wasn’t sure which frightened him more: the prospect of having his chest opened on the operating table to repair the leaking valve in his heart or the…
Last April a group of 100 or so Metro Atlanta leaders went to school in Denver, where they saw a thriving metro region confronting familiar challenges of rapid growth. These Atlantans, part of the 12th annual LINK (Leadership, Innovation, Networking,…
In the gap between opportunity and sealing the deal they paced the halls, wearing intersecting paths in the carpet, these polished, well-dressed men and women with hands-free communication technology, holding conversations with telephone phantoms half a hemisphere away. Spanish and…
When Irwin County vintner Chris Paulk was facing a few difficulties in converting the byproducts of his muscadine grapes into a saleable commodity, he turned to the Agribusiness Innovation Center (AgIC) in nearby Tifton. “He needed a way to add…
Situated on Metro Atlanta’s outer rim in Bartow County, Cartersville was long considered just another sleepy small town. But thanks to Metro Atlanta’s ever-expanding growth and the efforts of shrewd and energetic local boosters, those days are long gone. This…
Gwinnett County was the fastest growing county in the country during a transitional period, when the strip centers of the 1970s and shopping malls of the 1980s were beginning to lose their luster and the roads connecting them, increasingly clogged…
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