The Atlanta Journal’s motto used to be, “Covers Dixie Like the Dew.” But the dew is very light today. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, or AJC, barely covers its own county. Its circulation dropped from 400,000 in 2005 to 330,000 in 2009,…
Drive along Georgia Highway 84 East between Bainbridge and Cairo and you’re sure to see the large green and white sign proclaiming this stretch of road to be “Bobby Walden Highway.” Yes, it refers to that Bobby Walden, the one…
From her years in the Tri-Hi-Y Club growing up in Millen, to raising her son, John, and daughter, Jamison, to chairing the board of directors for Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Pannell, 58, has sought ways to fill…
Prospects for producers of aerospace products are deteriorating rapidly, and the abrupt reversal of fortunes is somewhat surprising. After all, when the economic downturn began there was a huge backlog of orders for aircraft, and the U.S. government’s defense budget…
Vance Smith is the kind of guy who could crack jokes in the middle of a hurricane. On a recent summer morning as I sat down to chat with him in the Department of Trans-portation headquarters in Atlanta, he was…
It’s late on a still and sweltering afternoon at Lake Oconee, but a small sailboat has found just enough breeze to move it slowly toward shore and into the lengthening shadows. Nearby, a handful of Jet Ski riders are crisscrossing…
Known for years as the Carpet Capital of the World, Dalton has seen its fortunes affected by both the national decline in homebuilding brought about by the recession and the gradual consolidation of an industry that has shrunk from 400…
Even as county leaders are wrestling with a tax situation that’s standing in the way of a balanced budget, economic developers are celebrating the relocation of not one but two Fortune 500 companies – NCR and Asbury Automotive – to…
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