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Georgia Tech Professional Education Offers coursesGeorgia Tech Professional Education will provide an Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry (OTI 510) course at the...
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Georgia’s most influentialSeven Savannahians have been named to Georgia Trend’s annual listing of the state’s 100 most powerful and influential citizens. They are Curtis J. Foltz, executive director of...
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Savannah newsmakers
HIRES/PROMOTIONSJOHN SAWYER New job title: Public works and water resources bureau chiefCompany: The city of SavannahDuties: Sawyer is responsible for more than 400 employees who work in departments...
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10 banks agree to pay $8.5B for foreclosure abuse
Ten major banks agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.The banks, which...
View ArticleElite Israeli Air Force unit flying G550s
Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. and Israeli Aerospace Industries have had a long and mutually productive relationship, with IAI building the smaller Gulfstream G150 and G280 business jets in...
View ArticleLooking at benefits of greater residential density
At the end of my City Talk column on Sunday, I noted that some key concerns about the quality of life for residents of the downtown area would be ameliorated if more folks were simply living...
View ArticleGeorgia Power to retire Plant Kraft
Georgia Power plans to close Plant Kraft in Port Wentworth in 2016 as part of a statewide strategy to decommission cost-prohibitive coal and oil-fired power generation stations, the utility announced...
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Local gas prices edge upwardAverage retail gasoline prices in Savannah have risen 1.7 cents a gallon in the past week to $3.39 on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in...
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Small business owners get advice on Affordable Care Act
Small business owners preparing to abide by the Affordable Care Act were advised Tuesday to use the same approach as they would in eating an elephant.View photos and see who was spotted at the...
View ArticleMPC delays action on roadside electronic signage
Savannah business owners with message boards as part of their roadside signage will have to wait a few more weeks before throwing away their long poles and plastic letters.The Chatham County-Savannah...
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Smart TVs get smarter, by just a little bit
LAS VEGAS — In the not-so-distant future, couch potatoes will be waving, pointing, swiping and tapping to make their TVs react, kind of like what Tom Cruise did in the 2002 movie “Minority Report.”...
View ArticleWorld Trade Center Savannah looks to 2013
The World Trade Center Savannah board, meeting Tuesday at the World Trade Center building on Hutchinson Island, discussed its 2013 business plan, brought on several new partners and announced its board...
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This week in BiS:• Vicki Sepielli at Kiwi Fleur says wedding work is her passion and she takes pride in the fact it’s somebody’s wedding day and a special time. She’s honored to be included and tries...
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Gulfstream still growing in Savannah
The highlight of the first Savannah Economic Development Authority meeting of the year was nothing short of what SEDA interim president Trip Tollison referred to as “one hell of a story” for...
View ArticleHistoric board applauds changes to proposed East River Street hotel/retail...
The proposed East River Street hotel/retail complex on Savannah’s waterfront will be less visually imposing and include more waterfront greenspace than originally presented, according to updated...
View ArticleTybee traffic message board planned for U.S. 80
Tybee Road will be a less maddening stretch of asphalt to the beach bound this summer.Plans calls for the installation of an electronic message board near the intersection of Bryan Woods Road and U.S....
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Dean of UGA’s Terry College of Business to go to Va. TechBLACKSBURG, Va. — Robert T. Sumichrast, dean of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, has been named dean of the Pamplin...
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Gordon to take on inventory tax
Calling the state’s inventory tax “blatant double taxation and a deterrent to small business,” state Rep. Craig Gordon pledged to introduce legislation that would exempt the downtown retail corridor...
View ArticleRuss Wigh's new year's wish list
I wish to see the federal government concentrate discretionary spending in three vital areas besides defense: education, infrastructure and research and development.They are all job creators. On the...
View ArticlePedestrian corridor to join Westin, Trade Center
A weather-protected pedestrian corridor between Hutchinson Island’s hotel and its trade center neighbor was approved Wednesday by the board of the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.The...
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