When the new Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal opens on May 16, arriving passengers will no longer have to recheck their bags before they are able to leave the airport.
But if the passengers decide they want to ride MARTA to get to Atlanta, they will have to board a shuttle that will take them along the Loop Road on a 12 to 14 minute ride from the Jackson International terminal to the domestic terminal where they can board MARTA.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 9, 2012
Leaders in Atlanta and Georgia have launched a high-powered effort to lure a regional office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to the city.
The federal government has said that it wants to establish several regional offices that could review and issue patents and trademarks as a way of encouraging innovation throughout the country.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 9, 2012
When William Foege receives Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in Social Courage on March 15, it will accomplish two important goals.
It will shine the spotlight on a relatively unknown Atlanta leader who has had a tremendous impact on saving lives across the world.
And it will help reinforce Atlanta’s role as a nexus for global health.
The mood at Turner Field’s parking lot was ultra-festive Sunday afternoon.
Thousands of Atlantans, literally of every walk of life, participated in the 28th annual Hunger Walk/Run — a signature event of the Atlanta Community Food Bank.
As people gathered to either walk or run the five kilometer course, a band played on the stage while dozens danced and cheered.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Foundation for Economic Education will be moving its headquarters from New York to Atlanta in the fall, according to its president, Lawrence Reed.
The Foundation, which dates back to 1946, is the oldest free enterprise economics think tank in the United States, directly reaching about 15,000 students a year from around the world through weeklong seminars and other events. It also has a host of Web-based offerings that reach thousands more.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 2, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. could not be more pleased with how its partnership with the King Center has turned out.
Since last April, JPMorgan has been working on the King Center Imaging Project — digitizing all the center’s archival materials, including speeches and papers of Martin Luther King Jr., and making them available on a new website: www.thekingcenter.org/archive.
The name of the game these days is competitiveness.
Many Georgia leaders are asking how can we create the most competitive economy in the United States, if not the world.
Gov. Nathan Deal, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and Georgia Department of Economic Development launched a Competitiveness Initiative in 2011.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 24, 2012
Rome-based Berry College has received an anonymous $10 million challenge gift to help provide at least 80 new full-time scholarships for students who combine their studies with work on campus.
It should be so simple.
Establishing a regional transit governance structure and tweaking the MARTA Act to make the transit system more functional should be no brainers.
But when sound ideas are placed in the hands of some members of the General Assembly they somehow become distorted, convoluted and warped with political baggage.
Then when people and institutions object to proposed bills have been drafted with flawed thinking rather than common sense, those bills often just die on the vine and nothing gets done.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 24, 2012
The Atlanta-based King Center — a nonprofit that has experienced a multitude of management changes over the years — now is under the oversight of Terry Giles, who was made interim custodian of the Center by a Fulton County Superior Court judge on Jan. 31.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 17, 2012
Michael Polk has been president and CEO of Newell Rubbermaid Inc. only since July, but already he is putting his mark on the Atlanta-based company.
Newell Rubbermaid invited up to 250 of its top executives from around the world for its annual convention to Atlanta during the week of Feb. 13 to Feb. 16. But instead of going to a golf resort, Polk decided to spend their first “team-building” day volunteering at the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home for abused and abandoned children.
Residents of the City of Atlanta soon will be asked to pass a penny sales tax to improve the its infrastructure.
Unlike the publicity surrounding the regional transportation sales tax referendum to be held in July, a referendum to continue investing in the city’s water and sewer infrastructure only now is getting limited attention — and the vote is only days away — on March 6.
But don’t interpret the low-key campaign effort as a lack of enthusiasm for MOST — the Municipal Option Sales Tax.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 17, 2012
If Richard Anderson is worried about Southwest Airlines entering the Atlanta market, he doesn’t show it.
Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines Inc., sat down for an extensive conversation with Atlanta Business Chronicle two days before Southwest’s inaugural Feb. 12 flight into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 10, 2012
The Atlanta History Center has selected history buff Sheffield Hale as its new president and CEO.
Hale is no stranger to the center. He has been volunteering at the Atlanta History Center for more than 25 years. He has served as chairman of the museum’s board. And most recently, he has been co-chairing its $27 million capital campaign.
The inscription couldn’t be more appropriate.
On the tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., the message is: “I LOVE EVERYONE. STILL IN BUSINESS. JUST MOVED UPSTAIRS.
The legacy of “Daddy King” — as he was known to close friends and family — will live on through the M.L. King Sr. Community Resource Complex, which is under construction next to Ebenezer Baptist Church. King Sr. was a pastor at Ebenezer — a role he shared with his son — Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 10, 2012
Plans to develop a Truett Cathy Legacy Project on the campus of Morris Brown College have fallen through.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 3, 2012
After 20 years as president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Janice McKenzie-Crayton could not be more excited.
The 50-year-old organization will soon be moving to its own home in Midtown — a move that she believes will improve the visibility, branding and operations of the nonprofit that matches “Big Brothers” and “Big Sisters” with their younger counterparts.
Georgia remains a divided state — with wide disparities in income, health and education depending on location and demography.
Although much has been said over the years about the two Georgias or the multitude of Georgias, an innovative website now exists that illustrates the differences that exist all over the state.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 27, 2012
KIPP Metro Atlanta — a charter school nonprofit organization that has been focused on middle school and high school students — will launch its first elementary school in July.
How disappointing.
After months and months of study, the Transit Governance Task Force has come up with recommendations that are unacceptable — especially for residents in Fulton and DeKalb counties who have been investing in MARTA for the past four decades.
