Patrick Fox
"This fall, Alpharetta has a mayor and three seats on the City Council up for election. My sense is that one or more of these incumbents fear a smear is near," writes Pat Fox.
Give credit where credit is due, says Managing Editor Pat Fox.
It hardly seems possible, but little over a decade ago, there were no roundabouts in Metro Atlanta.
"A number of readers responded to a recent column in which I took college football to task for some alarming trends that have surfaced in recent years – from narcissistic bands to Oregon’s Imelda Marcos closetful of uniforms."
I’ve loved college football since the days of Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes and Pepper Rodgers. It offers something few sports can lay claim to – the ability to suspend cynicism and believe that coaches are honorable, players love their school, and college sports programs are honest. Even so, there are some alarming trends creeping into the game.
It’s been almost 15 years since residents cut the ribbon on Sandy Springs. Some cities followed its model when declaring their own independence from Fulton County. Others, like Milton and Johns Creek, did not.
Things have changed a lot over my lifetime. If my parents were “The Greatest Generation,” I’m in the not-so-great “Metamorphic Generation,” those who have ridden the tide of major changes, from Big Chief tablets to desktop computers.
Georgia has experienced “superb” job growth, adding 137,400 jobs in the past seven months with unemployment below 3 percent, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
It seems like only yesterday, but 22 years ago, we celebrated a new millennium.
To commemorate the epoch, in December 1999, A&E’s “Biography” aired a two-part special profiling the 100 most influential people of the past 1,000 years.