Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a former state representative and business owner from Johns Creek, faced a daunting task soon after he took office in January of 2019: Implementing a new statewide voting system mandated by the General Assembly…
The needs and projected growth of Georgia’s rural communities are quite different from their urban counterparts. While large and small metro areas are currently adding residents, rural parts of the state are seeing populations level off or decline. The Georgia…
College basketball players and coaches have one goal – playing in the NCAA tournament that culminates in the Final Four championship tournament. This year, that long and winding road leads to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, where the Men’s Final Four…
Putting in a sidewalk. Replacing lampposts. Planting new flowers. All small things that community improvement districts (CIDs) do as a matter of course. And they’re all important – they do a lot to affect the daily quality of life in…
What’s the best thing about Macon? That can be a difficult question to answer in a city with so much to offer. There’s 17,000 years of history to explore at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, the musical legacy of the…
Douglas County, just west of Atlanta, has been busy establishing itself as an outlier, one that is thinking ahead and coloring outside the lines. Over the past 10 years, they’ve welcomed companies like McMaster-Carr, Gordon Food Service and Google to…
In Waycross and Ware County, its not just “location, location, location.” It’s also “logistics, logistics, logistics.” “Our No. 1 strength is that we are a logistical hub for our region. We have access to rail, to our airport, easy routes…
Around 30 years ago, a group of Lumpkin County churches banded together to form a food pantry. Since then, their efforts have grown into a sprawling Dahlonega nonprofit called Community Helping Place (CHP), which lives up to its name by…
Greener Blue Birds: School bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corp., based in Fort Valley, has more than 100 electric buses on order from school districts throughout the nation. The company’s electric buses have already hit the pavement in California, North Dakota…
New Transportation Planner: Jannine Miller is Gov. Brian Kemp’s choice for the position of state planning director at the Georgia Department of Transportation. Miller most recently was a senior advisor to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; before that,…
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