By Guest Columnist JEREMY C. GARLINGTON, an Atlanta-based leadership consultant and publisher of “The Garlington Report." Call it the summer of racially tinged brew-ha-has. The first featured a new president, a cop from Cambridge, ...

By Guest Columnist HARRY WEST, professor of Practice for Georgia Tech's Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development. Appropriately so, both the term and measurement “shovel ready” has been applied to the selection of projects ...

By Guest Columnist CHARLEY ENGLISH, director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency and Homeland Security Thirty percent of your employees don’t show up for work one day. What would you do? Would you close for business? ...

By Guest Columnist JOHN SIBLEY, program director of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and former president of the Georgia Conservancy Last week, the Georgia Public Service Commission, by unanimous vote, tripled the amount of solar ...

By Guest Columnist STEVE VOGEL, president of the Georgia Association of Railroad Passengers It's like trying to jump on a train that's already pulling out of the station. Georgia is seeking a share of $8 billion in ...

By Guest Columnist MATTHEW HICKS, associate legislative director for the Association County Commissioners of Georgia on economic development and transportation policy. In 2003, a goal was set by those working on the BeltLine to have transit ...

By Guest Columnist KIM ANDERSON, CEO of Families First Virtually every measure of individual success begins with a loving and supportive family. Yet on any given day, approximately 13,000 children in Georgia’s foster care system ...

By Guest Columnist JIM MARAN, president and CEO of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce In Jim Collins best-selling book Good to Great, he says visionary companies don’t ask "How well are we doing?" or "How can ...

By Guest Columnist DICK ANDERSON, executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority. When Gov. Sonny Perdue asked me over a year ago to join his administration and take look at our transportation challenges from an ...

By Guest Columnist RAY CHRISTMAN, retired CEO of the FHLBank of Atlanta who currently is involved in a variety of housing/banking-related consulting and civic activities, including the Peachtree Corridor Partnership, the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce ...

By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS: a Georgia Tech professor of architecture and planning who also served as the city of Atlanta’s commissioner of planning, development and neighborhood conservation from 1996 to 2002. Dobbins also is ...

By Guest Columnist JAMES OXENDINE, CEO of the Oxendine Group, a public policy consulting firm specializing in economic and transit-oriented development Muhtar Kent, President and CEO of the Coca Cola Company, recently suggested “the current ...

By Guest Columnist MICHAEL ROBISON, founder, chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based Lanier Parking Holdings. I grew up attending Atlanta public schools, so I can appreciate the value of renovating aging schools and building new ones. ...

By Guest Columnist JIM GEIGER, CEO of Cbeyond who serves on the boards of the Points of Light Institute (formerly HandsOn Network), Marist School and Southern Methodist Cox School of Business. I’m a proud ...

By Guest Columnist JANICE MCKENZIE-CRAYTON, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta For the last several years, I have had the opportunity to talk with and also hire a number of professionals ...

By Guest Columnist CATHERINE ROSS, director of the Center for Qaulity Growth and Harry West Professor at Georgia Tech They came from all over the southeast and New York. They came because they heard ...

By Guest Columnist GEORGE ISRAEL, president and CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and a former mayor of Macon Congress heard some good news this past week as Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernake testified ...

By Guest Columnist ALICIA PHILIPP, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta Some call it the new normal. Others call it a sea change. Whatever you call it, it’s clear that all organizations, whether for-profit ...

By Guest Columnist WALTER BROWN, chairman of the Georgia Solar Energy Association, and co-founder/senior vicew president for development and environmental affairs of Green Street Properties As is unfortunately apparent from the daily headlines, the United States, ...

By Guest Columnist ED ELLIS; transportation engineer; Regional Vice President of Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. It’s just plain hard to talk about transportation in Georgia without cussing. I’ve been in the transportation engineering business for ...