By Guest Columnist TERRY LAWLER, executive director of the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta Last month metro Atlanta’s primary source of water reached a milestone: Lake Lanier is back to full pool and rising. Not only ...
By Guest Columnist HATTIE B. DORSEY, president of HBDorsey & Associates and founding past president of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership “A city of aspiration embraces the fundamental principal that one of the historic roles of ...
By Guest Columnist KEVIN KUNTZ, president of the Southeast Division of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. I write today as a conservative and registered Republican, a descendant of German immigrants to America, and a 30-year veteran of the construction ...
By Guest Columnist LUIS IMERY, president and CEO of the Imery Group, a full-service construction, green rating and real estate group The housing industry is showing signs of recovery, but it will never be ...
By Guest Columnist JOHN KEYS, transportation consultant on mobility management Transit systems in many areas of the country successfully build cooperative, cost-effective, partnerships to deliver service. Partnerships are used to provide quality transit service at cost ...
By Guest Columnist BILL GOLDEN, an independent Realtor with RE/MAX Metro Atlanta Cityside You know what they say about there being no rose without a thorn? Well, the real estate market in Atlanta is looking quite ...
By Guest Columnist MERIDITH FORD, editorial director of the Reynolds Group in Atlanta A recent meal in Providence, R.I., sent my brain on a trip. The journey? Trying to define, once and for all, what the ...
By Guest Columnist HEATHER ALHADEFF, president of Center Forward, a woman-owned land-use and transportation consulting business My incessantly analytical brain is ruled by logic. So, to me it just made sense — evolve or die on ...
By Guest Columnist MIKE GERBER, founder and president of Cross Channel Initiatives If this were the game show Jeopardy, the answer would be: “two and a half times.” The question: “How much more in state taxpayer money ...
By Guest Columnist JEFF SWEENEY, co-founder and executive vice president of East-West Manufacturing, an Atlanta-based domestic offshore manufacturing company Is offshoring inherently bad? Do manufacturing jobs "belong" onshore? Both questions are based on an erroneous assumption ...
By Guest Columnist DAVID FREEDMAN, executive director of the U.S. Green Building Council, Georgia Chapter Can the forestry industry and the green building industry co-exist in Georgia? Most Georgians would think the answer to this question is, ...
By Guest Columnist LAUREN JOY, an associate attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center In 2011, many Atlantans were relieved by the court determination that water supply was an authorized purpose of Lake Lanier. Despite ...
By Guest Columnist LEON EPLAN, former commissioner of the City of Atlanta’s Department of Planning and Development As work progresses on the Atlanta Streetcar, the city has aken a giant step towards confronting its current and ...
By Guest Columnist TIMOTHY SWEENEY, director of health policy at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute A rule of thumb holds that when something happens three times in short order, it’s a trend. So it’s fair ...
By Guest Columnist VALARIE WILSON, executive director of the BeltLine Partnership, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering support for Atlanta's BeltLine Standing on the playground at Historic Fourth Ward Park on a weekend afternoon, surrounded ...
By Guest Columnist DARAKA E. SATCHER, partner and chief oprating officer at the Pendleton Group consulting firm A few times a week, I have the privilege of working from a location where I have a great ...
By Guest Columnist DANA RICKMAN, director of the policy and research for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education ...
By Guest Columnist PAT GARDNER, state representative for House District 57 (D-Atlanta) Two important healthcare issues loom large for the General Assembly beginning January 14th. Legislators will engage in a hot debate and intense negotiations over ...
By Guest Columnist ALAN ESSIG, executive director of the non-profit, non-partisan Georgia Budget and Policy Institute You’ve heard the old joke. The Georgia Legislature is back in Atlanta, so you better hang on to your wallet. ...
By Guest Columnist TERRY LAWLER, executive director of the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta As we approach 2013 and the potential "fiscal cliff", the metro Atlanta region is facing some challenges and opportunities during the ...
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