Ryan NicolOctober 29, 2019
6min389
The NCAA Board of Governors has taken the first step toward allowing athletes to cash in on their fame.
Tag: Atlanta
Ryan NicolOctober 29, 2019
Blake DowlingApril 7, 2019
10min283
The trip was a great reminder to lower your guard and remain open to new ideas.
Blake DowlingMarch 31, 2018
6min359
Atlanta’s situation is grim. What happens when your local government’s technology is crippled? Nothing good. In the blink of an eye, it can happen to your business, association, or administration. A click on the wrong email, and you better get out the jelly, because you are toast. City employees were told to turn off their […]
Associated PressOctober 6, 2016
7min486
Hundreds of thousands of anxious people boarded up their homes and businesses and grabbed a few belongings to flee inland as Hurricane Matthew gained strength and roared toward the Southeast seaboard on Thursday. In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott said the state, its skies already darkening from early outer rain bands of the life-threatening storm, could […]
Associated PressJuly 9, 2016
7min174
Wanda Melton has voted for every Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1980, but now the Georgia grandmother plans to cross over to support Democrat Hillary Clinton. “I’m not a real fan of Hillary,” Melton says from her office in Atlanta. “But I think it would just be awful to have Donald Trump.” She […]
Mitch PerryMay 25, 2016
5min215
Tampa Bay area sports fans were hit with a double whammy of negativity on Tuesday. I also had a poor night watching people play games for profit. First of all, the Tampa Bay Lightning blew their opportunity to close out their Eastern Conference Finals series with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and face elimination tomorrow night in […]
Associated PressNovember 5, 2015
6min655
The company behind Hard Rock Hotels says it’s planning to open one in the downtown Atlanta area, near the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium. The firm said Monday that it plans to open Hard Rock Atlanta in spring 2018. Hard Rock International said in a statement that the 220-room hotel will be next to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, […]
Associated PressSeptember 3, 2015
7min236
Exploring a presidential campaign, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday offered a robust defense of a nuclear accord with Iran strongly backed by the White House in the latest sign of his work to present himself as a natural heir to President Barack Obama. “I tell you, I firmly believe, and I will go into […]
Guest AuthorJune 29, 20156min139
“Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and get the work done?” Robert Avossa, the new Palm Beach County schools superintendent, asked an enthusiastic group of 250 to 300 in the Glades Central High School media center this past Thursday evening. The crowd was a cross-section of school administrators, teachers, staff, parents and local […]
Guest AuthorFebruary 10, 20158min198
Matthew Carr’s new book, Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War, is presented as “an antimilitarist military history” – that is, half of it is a history of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s conduct during the U.S. Civil War, and half of it is an attempt to trace echoes of Sherman through major […]