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Former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn receives inaugural Allen Prize

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By Maria Saporta

For former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, Monday was a “this is your life” experience.

The setting was the Founder’s Day Allen Prize Symposium presented by Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Nunn is the first recipient of the Allen Prize, which is named after former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.

The two-day event began Monday with several sessions based on Nunn’s interests and past experiences — from his days as chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to his current role as co-chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

A highlight was when Bob Schieffer, CBS News Chief and host of Face the Nation, interviewed Nunn about current events as well as how Washington, D.C. has changed

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CEO Frank Blake talks about his four-year tenure at Home Depot

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 11, 2011

It was Jan. 3, 2007. Frank Blake, a relatively unknown executive at The Home Depot Inc., had just been named CEO following the sudden departure of the controversial Bob Nardelli.

Blake’s appointment caught many by surprise. Although he had been promoted to Home Depot’s vice chairman several months before, Blake had little retail experience and had never run a major public company.

Even Blake was caught off guard. When board members told him he had the job

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New transportation dollars should be efficiently invested in existing transit, activity centers, planning

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist BRIAN GIST, a senior attorney and transportation specialist for the Southern Environmental Law Center

Atlanta’s transportation system is already bursting at the seams. And the bad news is that if something doesn’t change soon, those seams are going to break. The numbers speak for themselves:

• Increase in metro Atlanta’s population

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Waste Management expanding in Atlanta

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, February 25, 2011

Waste Management Inc. is increasing its presence in metro Atlanta.

After considering several locations in the Carolinas and Georgia, the Houston-based company (NYSE: WM) selected Cobb County’s One Parkway Center to house its South Atlantic Area’s newly consolidated area office and call center.

The 20,000-square-foot facility is being called the Grand Central Station for Waste Management’s customer service and operations business in the three-state South Atlantic area.

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Although no longer in public office, Michael Thurmond is dedicated to putting people back to work

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When Georgia’s former labor commissioner Michael Thurmond announced on Feb. 7 that he was joining the law firm of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, my first thought was that one of our greatest public servants was withdrawing from the arena.

Fortunately, I was mistaken.

In a lengthy interview, Thurmond made it clear that he has not finished working to put people back to work.

In fact, Thurmond is still convinced that his successful “Georgia Works” programs can and should be taken to the national stage.

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Pursue better alternatives before building new water reservoirs

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist SANDY TUCKER, Georgia field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Atlanta sits near the headwaters of every river it depends on. It’s the nation’s largest metropolitan region, with the smallest area from which to pull water.

Without the water storage provided by Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee River — and to a lesser extent, Lake Allatoona on the Etowah River — metro Atlanta could not have grown its current population of more than 5 million.

So it’s easy to understand why leaders say we need to build more reservoirs to ensure

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Column: Local growth funding bill makes 2nd try in legislature

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By Maria Saporta , Staff Writer
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011

After a nearly passing last year’s Georgia General Assembly, a bill will be reintroduced early in this session to allow local communities to pass a fraction of a penny sales tax for economic development and the arts.

A coalition of cities, counties, and arts and cultural organizations, known as Georgia Communities for Growth, is pushing for a bill that would give communities unprecedented flexibility for a new revenue stream.

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Atlanta can meet its destiny as part of the Peace Millennium

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist JOHN NAUGLE, an advocate for declaring Atlanta — the City of Peace.

As we finish celebrating 01/01/11, we are beginning the second decade of the thousand-year period of human history called: The Peace Millennium (Years 2000-3000).

Atlanta, how will you grow in this special year and new decade? In our organization’s opinion, Atlanta is the best positioned city on Earth to excel and become a beacon of peace to the entire world. This dream, born in the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and “I Have A Dream”, can soon enough experience reality.

As civic, government and business leaders unite to build the global peace legacy of Dr. King’s birth city it will be transformed. The City of Atlanta will fulfill its great

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Ted Turner, David Ratcliffe: Green energy’s odd couple

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, December 10, 2010

“Hi partner.”

That’s the way environmentalist Ted Turner greeted David Ratcliffe, the recently retired CEO of Southern Co., at a meeting in Turner’s Atlanta office building on Dec. 6.

The two men — legends in their respective fields — had agreed to sit down for an interview to discuss how their relationship has evolved from being adversaries to being business partners in a groundbreaking solar joint venture in New Mexico.

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Imprisoned Nobel Laureate spotlights need for human rights

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist EVERETTE HARVEY THOMPSON, Southern Regional director for Amnesty International USA in Atlanta, Ga.

The plight of China’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is taking place in the glare of world publicity, but his terrible situation is not uncommon. Millions worldwide suffer cruel persecution, their freedom and lives in peril, while governments deny their fundamental rights as human beings.

As we mark International Human Rights Day, people are still tortured or ill-treated in at least 111 countries; freedom of expression is restricted in at least 96 countries; and prisoners of conscience are held in at least 48 countries, according to Amnesty International’s

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Gift of building does not absolve the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s downtown departure

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Call it a gift made out of guilt.

This past week, Cox Enterprises donated the former downtown headquarters of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to the City of Atlanta, a gift valued at $50 million.

Until earlier this year, the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution had been based in the center of the city and the center of region for more than 100 years. In their entire history, the newspapers had been located within a couple of blocks of Atlanta’s zero milepost.

So when the powers that be decided to move the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to a suburban office building located outside the city limits and north of I-285, it made a statement. The newspapers were deserting the city’s center in more ways than one.

This is a hard column for me to write because I spent 27 years

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Philanthropist Bernie Marcus supports stem cell research

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By Maria Saporta

Advocates who favor the development of stem cell research in Georgia have a major Republican business leader on their side.

Bernie Marcus, co-founder of the Home Depot who is now a leading philanthropist in scientific and health initiatives, spoke last Thursday at the Life Sciences Summit put on by Georgia Bio.

Marcus, and his wife, Billi, were honored at the Summit for “their commitment in support of bioscience research and medical innovation.”

The Marcus Foundation has supported such organizations as the Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center at Grady Hospital, the Marcus Trauma Center also at Grady,

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U.S. Chamber Chairman Tom Bell talks about Obama vs. business organization

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, October 22, 2010

In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 2 midterm elections, an uproar has erupted between the Obama administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over campaign finances and policy issues.

Unknown to most Georgians, sitting right in the middle of this political firestorm is one of the Atlanta’s top business leaders.

Tom Bell, formerly CEO of Cousins Properties Inc. and now executive chairman of the security services

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Column: Gwinnett Chamber rejoins the RBC — boosting its regional engagement

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, October 15, 2010

The Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce has rejoined the Regional Business Coalition of Metropolitan Atlanta after a four-year absence.

Because the Gwinnett Chamber is one of the largest business organizations in the region, if not the state, the coalition had been working hard to bring Gwinnett back into the fold.

Terry Lawler, the relatively new executive director of

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‘Three amigos’ plan their next Atlanta Equity adventure

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, October 8, 2010

They call themselves the “three amigos” — Pete Correll, Gerry Benjamin and David Crosland.

Three years ago, Correll, the retired CEO of Georgia-Pacific, teamed up with Benjamin, an investment manager, and Crosland, formerly with investment firm Arcapita Inc., to form a private investment firm called Atlanta Equity LLC.

They raised $109 million from about 70 investors, mostly from Atlanta,

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How Southwest finally landed in Atlanta with AirTran acquisition

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, October 1, 2010

A decade ago, Joe Leonard approached Herb Kelleher to see if he might be interested in a merger of both their airlines.

At the time, Leonard was CEO of AirTran Airways Inc., and Kelleher, the founder of Southwest Airlines, was CEO of the Dallas-based airline.

In all, Leonard talked to Kelleher four times about doing

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The 2010 smog season remains up in the air

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist KEVIN GREEN, executive director of the Clean Air Campaign

Since breathing is one of the great pleasures in life, we thought we would take a minute to assess how this year’s smog season has gone, how it compares to years prior and where we may be heading.

To start with the obvious, this summer has been HOT – one of the warmest Georgia summers on record. And the heat affects more than just our thermostats. Ground-level ozone is formed when pollutants mix with heat and sunlight, which is why we have a “smog season” in Georgia, the five-month period from May 1- Sept 30. As cooler temperatures and shorter days move onto the horizon, so too does the end of when we are most likely to see days of increased air pollution.

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