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Plum Creek Timber buying 501,000 acres in Southeast; 36,000 in Georgia

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By Maria Saporta

Plum Creek Timber Co. is adding to its land holdings in the Southeast including 36,000 acres in Georgia.

On Monday Oct. 28, Plum Creek announced that it had signed a $1.1 billion purchase and sale agreement to acquire about 501,000 acres of industrial timberlands, associated wind and mineral assets, and an interest in about 109,000 acres of high-value rural and development-quality lands from MeadWestvaco Corp.

The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2013 and it is still subject to customary closing conditions.

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How Georgia gave birth to the CDC and helped fight malaria (Part 1)

by Jamil Zainaldin

Today’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deep roots in Georgia, not the least of which were the Depression-era efforts of a handful of medical practitioners, a university, and a philanthropist whose support made their work possible.

Next time you drive by the CDC, consider this: What does that imposing complex in the middle of metro Atlanta have to do with a tiny, remote county in southwest Georgia?

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Georgia’s economic future depends on education — now more than ever

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist STEVE DOLINGER, president of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education

There is a crisis in the South that threatens the region’s economic viability and competitiveness. According to a recent study conducted by Georgetown University, many parts of the South (including Georgia) are trapped in an economic cycle known as the low-wage/low-skill equilibrium.

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BeltLine vision – Grant Park and Glenwood Park show power of a plan

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It’s amazing to witness the moment when a plan is no longer just a plan but a living document that is part of a community’s lifeblood.

That’s exactly what is happening in Southeast Atlanta with the 19-acre site on Glenwood Avenue — a pivotal piece of property that is pitting a traditional retail developer’s vision of the future with the vision that hundreds, if not thousands, of Atlantans have for how we should develop along the BeltLine corridor.

In the late 1990s, citizens in Midtown Atlanta showed their power when they killed plans for a parking garage at 10th and Peachtree streets (but more on that later).

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Georgia for Dean vets celebrate the dawn of digital politics

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They still remember that brief and glorious moment when everything clicked. The campaign they worked on didn’t turn out the way they wanted it to, but a decade later, they can say they were there at the dawn of a new political era.

Last Friday night, a group of veterans of the 2004 Georgia for Dean campaign gathered at Manuel’s to remember those days and — apropos of the kind of campaign they ran — connect with others during the evening via Skype.

If you look it up, you’ll see that John Kerry and John Edwards split nearly all the vote in the Georgia Democratic presidential primary that year, and Howard Dean, the anti-establishment former Connecticut governor who later became chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was a washout. But the numbers don’t tell all the story.

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Column: Georgia State University raises record $38.3 million last year

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, July 19, 2013

Georgia State University has just completed its best fundraising year ever. The university raised $38.3 million during the 2012-2013 fiscal year — surpassing its previous record of $35.3 million set in 1999.

It’s an important year for Georgia State, which is celebrating its centennial in 2013.

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Solar energy meeting follows PSC ruling that Ga. Power significantly expand its solar portfolio

by David Pendered

Now that Georgia's utility regulator has authorized the additional development of solar power in the state, attention is turning to questions of how that power will be governed.

In less than a year, Georgia’s Public Service Commission has approved 735 megawatts through solar power arrays. Georgia Power voluntarily provided the first 210 megawatts that was approved last winter. The PSC voted last week to require the additional 525 megawatts as part of a broader Georgia Power docket.

The solar expansion happens to have come to a head just as the Georgia Solar Energy Association hosts a forum on Thursday in Atlanta. The featured speaker is coming from North Carolina, where there was a movement this year to roll back some of the state’s significant goals for producing renewable energy.

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North Carolina’s model of consensus is slipping — giving Georgia leaders a chance to unite and move forward

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When GeorgiaForward was created four years ago, it was modeled after the successful North Carolina Emerging Issues Forum that had been launched by former Gov. Jim Hunt in 1986.

So it was fitting that when GeorgiaForward forum held its first forum three years ago in Macon that the keynote speaker was Anita Brown-Graham, director of North Carolina State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues.

It was through the annual forums and eventually the Institute that Gov. Hunt and the top business, nonprofit and government leaders in North Carolina tackled the state’s toughest issues of health, education, transportation and the environment — finding consensus and often translating that into action and implementation.

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Georgia seeks to be arbitration center for international business disputes

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist STEPHEN WRIGHT, an attorney at the Atlanta-based Taylor English Duma law firm

Georgia, and most importantly the City of Atlanta, is a great place for conducting international business.  The airport in Atlanta and port in Savannah together put the state at a global trade and transportation hot spot.  With our mild climate, advantageous costs of living, and pro-business environment, Georgia shines as a place to locate international facilities.

Now we have another advantage in our international trade infrastructure with a major overhaul of Georgia’s international commercial arbitration law.

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GeorgiaForward seeks to unify state while waiting on key leaders to join in

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A most valiant effort to unite the state of Georgia continues to prosper despite a lack of visible support from its top leaders.

GeorgiaForward, which will hold its fourth annual forum in Atlanta on July 11 and 12 at the Georgia Tech Conference Center, has built a grassroots following of civic, business and political officials from all over the state who seek to bridge the various forces that divide our state.

Those include Atlanta versus the rest of the state or perhaps more importantly — urban versus rural versus suburban; income divides, racial and ethnic divides, generational divides and political divides.

The goal has been to build consensus on a shared vision for where and how we want our state to evolve.

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Watch out Atlanta and Georgia — we can see Charlotte and North Carolina coming up fast in our rearview mirror

by Teresa Johnston

By Guest Columnist JANICE L. MATHIS, vice president of legal affairs for the Rainbow Push Coalition in Atlanta

I confess to bias toward North Carolina. My mom went to North Carolina Agriculture & Technical University (A & T) at a time when higher education opportunities for African American women were miniscule.

My dad helped send Jesse Jackson to A & T. Watching ACC basketball was not a small factor in choosing Duke University. Research Triangle Park, former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, summers during high school at Bennett College all leave me favorably predisposed toward North Carolina.

But early on I also heard the siren song of Atlanta. Daddy went to graduate school at Atlanta University. We rode the train from Greenville to visit him. We stayed and ate at Paschal’s Motor Hotel and Restaurant. It was magical.

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New tollway director promises open communications from powerful agency in transportation network

by David Pendered

GRTA’s board offered a warm welcome Wednesday to Chris Tomlinson, the newest leader of metro Atlanta’s transportation system.

Tomlinson, executive director of the State Road and Tollway Authority, responded with a message that emphasized themes of communication and transparency.

The message could go a long way for a state entity that wields tremendous power over Georgia’s transportation system, but operates largely out of the public spotlight. SRTA is chaired by the governor and has the power to plan, develop and build roads funded by federal and state sources – in addition to tolls.

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Federal cutbacks hurt, but Georgia’s safety net can respond creatively

by David Pendered

Georgia’s safety net can continue to address incredible needs, provided that its leaders respond creatively to reductions in government funding and evolution of the philanthropic community.

That message emerged from a two-hour panel discussion Wednesday at the Carter Center that was hosted by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute during its Spring Policy Forum.

“We have to work smarter and leverage our resources; leverage is an easy word, but it’s hard to do,” said Bill Bolling, executive director of the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

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Attorney Andy Cash, incoming JDRF Georgia board president, had his Moment when his sons were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

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As a personal and catastrophic injury attorney, Andy Cash had grown accustomed to hearing sudden, life-changing events from his clients. His law firm represents individuals and families who have experienced devastating injuries in accidents. Despite his well-developed professional empathy, the news he learned in July 2004 about his own three-year old son, Gavin, was very difficult to bear.

Then, in October 2011, at age eight, Andy’s youngest son, Liam, was diagnosed with T1D – just as his brother had been seven years before. The news was once again shocking and life-altering for the entire family.

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Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Prize honors John Lewis; Atlanta’s spirit

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By Maria Saporta

Georgia Tech has found a way to capture Atlanta’s spirit with its annual Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in Social Courage award — by linking the greatness of the city’s former mayor with some of the most notable leaders of today.

This year, the prize went to John Lewis, a Civil Rights leader who has been representing Georgia’s 5th District in Congress since 1987. The prize was given on April 4, the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which added to the poignancy of the award and its historical significance.

In fact, Georgia Tech’s Ivan College of Liberal Arts has made the awarding of the prize a major educational event that takes place over two days to give students an insight of the leadership that has set Atlanta apart from other cities over the years.

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Solar energy — Georgia’s newest economic development opportunity

by Saba Long

Our capital city is often the state’s poster child for innovation delivery, but we may have just been one-upped on an unlikely category — sustainability — specifically renewable energy..

Situated between Savannah and Atlanta, Dublin is not the first place to come to mind when considering a government entity interested in a public-private partnership to provide solar energy.

Teaming up with Greenavations, the city and county recently announced a new project to install over 4,000 solar panels at Dublin High School. The move is expected to save the school $100,000 in the first year alone.

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New nonprofit – InBloom – may spark ‘edtech’ boom in Atlanta and Georgia

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By Maria Saporta and Douglas Sams

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, March 1, 2013

Atlanta is poised to become a hub for educational technology, says the CEO of a new nonprofit backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Atlanta Business Chronicle reported Feb. 5 that inBloom Inc. has chosen Atlanta for its headquarters. The nonprofit, which will provide technology services to schools as they race to meet new academic requirements, could help make Atlanta a center for a cohesive effort to accelerate student achievement in the United States by boosting personalized learning in schools.

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A pig squeals in Alabama, and Georgia gets the bacon

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There has recently been a dust-up over in Alabama which might have set our ears to ringing here in Georgia, had our ears not already been deafened by the clamor from Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Residential and commercial customers in Alabama pay more for their electricity than those in Georgia, even though the price of the fuel needed to produce the electricity is less there than it is here. According to a recent survey, Alabama Power customers paid $1.5 billion more over a six-year period than they would have if they could have bought the electricity from Georgia Power, even though both companies are owned by Southern Co.

And even though vast reserves of natural gas have been discovered in Alabama while Georgia is still prospecting for its first big strike, customers of the two largest natural gas utilities there are charged two to three times more in operations and maintenance costs than customers in Georgia or Mississippi.

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Ray Anderson Foundation gift to set up Georgia Tech sustainability center

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B y Maria Saporta

The legacy of Ray Anderson, a corporate champion of sustainability, will live on at Georgia Tech.

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to Georgia Tech to establish the Center on Business Strategies of Sustainability (CBSS) within the Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business.

The new program will be developed by Dr. L. Beril Toktay, operations management professor and Brady Family Chair at the Scheller College of Business.

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Georgia to update rules on radioactive materials as part of routine program to maintain safety

by David Pendered

Georgia is preparing to repeal rules for radioactive waste disposal because the state is not in the business of storing such waste and has no plans to start, a state official said.

The state also intends to update its regulations of radioactive materials used for medical and industrial purposes. The revision aims to bring state rules into compliance with new federal standards.

Both measures are part of the routine maintenance of Georgia’s rules and regulations of radioactive materials, according to Jac Capp, chief of the air protection branch of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources.

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