Sustainable Georgia: School Solutions
Each at-risk child who is properly prepared for kindergarten saves the state approximately $100,000 over the course of a lifetime.
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Each at-risk child who is properly prepared for kindergarten saves the state approximately $100,000 over the course of a lifetime.
In sheer dollar power, U.S. Hispanics’ economic clout rose to $1.2 trillion in 2012.
Jack Carlisle Fligg had many honors during his 60-year football coaching career, but none compare to the one he received last May when some 30 of his former Grady High School players paid him a surprise visit and brought…
At Decatur’s Community Q BBQ, Georgia-style pulled pork and ribs are the mainstay, but there’s a lot more to try, including the Kitchen Sink Salad.
Georgia’s Lake Country began taking shape in 1953 when the waters of the Oconee River were dammed to create the 15,000-acre Lake Sinclair. The local citizens who turned out on weekends to watch the water rise were anticipating a…
In 1998, Synovus Financial Services Corporation, the Columbus-based company where William “Bill” Turner served as Chairman of the Executive Committee, was named the “Best Place to Work in America” by Forbes. A reporter from the magazine interviewed him, wanting…
In Dalton and Whitfield County, they are going through the “big reset.” This Northwest Georgia community, bisected by Interstate 75, has long been proclaimed the “Carpet Capital of the World” in honor of the industry that has dominated the…
When the iconic water towers proclaiming “Gwinnett is Great” and “Success Lives Here” were taken down in 2010 due to water system upgrades in Gwinnett County, some viewed it as symbolic of what they saw as a gradual decline…
This month we introduce readers to three more Georgia businesses that have been around for 50 years or more: Stevens & Wilkinson, an architectural, engineering and interior design firm in downtown Atlanta; Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis, & Rothschild, LLP,…
Maybe there’s a way out of this mess. Maybe the worst is behind us. Maybe Georgia will eventually overcome its reputation as a poster child for banking failure. In the meantime, there’s enough anxiety over new and developing regulations,…
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