Atlanta Journal-Constitution back issues from September 2007:
Cancer Society ads focus on uninsured.
Sep 01, 2007 ... Byline: Christopher Quinn Sep. 1--Raina will tell her real-life story in American Cancer Society ads beginning this month. Instead of talking about the dangers of smoking or the benefits of detecting cancer early, the Missouri woman, who wasn't fully identified, will ...
Law firm expands to Dallas.
Sep 04, 2007 ... Byline: Rhonda Cook Sep. 4--Mammoth Atlanta law firm Alston & Bird is opening an office in Dallas and could be expanding eventually to California and London, according to managing partner-elect Richard Hays. The firm is simply following the business in acquiring the ...
For some trips, nothing beats a rental.
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Gracie Bonds Staples Sep. 5--Beverly Glover owns two luxury cars. But when it comes time to hit the road, she'd much rather be behind the wheel of a rental. Besides giving her vehicles a rest, she gets the chance to drive something that she wouldn't buy or ...
Want a car with that home? It's yours in buyer's market.
Sep 05, 2007 ... Byline: Julie B. Hairston Sep. 5--Househunters Kendrick and Shaquita Gatewood have been courted with car leases, feted with furniture and tempted with tile. A health care worker and a teacher with secure incomes and down payment money, the couple are the toast of the ...
DeKalb master plan mostly funded by the developer.
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Ty Tagami Sep. 6--A private consultant will present his final plan Thursday night for how to deal with a massive project proposed at a clogged intersection in DeKalb County, but some residents say the plan is already tainted by money. Garvin was hired at the ...
Fed president: Economy OK despite housing slide.
Sep 06, 2007 ... Byline: Peralte C. Paul Sep. 6--While acknowledging the growing housing and mortgage mess, the president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said there's nothing to indicate the crisis is seeping into the larger economy. "I have been watching ...
Atlanta chief says Fed faces 'judgment call'.
Sep 07, 2007 ... Byline: Peralte C. Paul Sep. 7--In describing the current mortgage and liquidity mess, the president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said it's a case of eating too much. Whether the Fed, whose rate-setting committee is scheduled to meet ...
Art dealers sniff out fakes at Decor Expo.
Sep 08, 2007 ... Byline: Michelle Hiskey Sep. 8--In the art world's version of "Clue" Friday at the Georgia World Congress Center, the culprit was the art dealer in the hall with a fake canvas. The Decor Expo annually brings 6,500 buyers from hotels, casinos and stores for a weekend ...
In August, U.S. jobs fall for first time in 4 years.
Sep 08, 2007 ... Byline: Marilyn Geewax Sep. 8--WASHINGTON -- The number of U.S. jobs fell last month for the first time in four years, the Labor Department reported Friday. The surprisingly bad news sent stock prices plunging and brought calls for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. ...
Financial crises of past have familiar ring today.
Sep 09, 2007 ... Byline: Dan Chapman Sep. 9--Stock market roller coaster. Real estate meltdown. Crisis of confidence. Stephen Mihm of Decatur has seen these financial messes before. Heck, he wrote the book. "We're in untested waters right now in terms of the complexity of the ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Up Close column.(Column)
Sep 09, 2007 ... Byline: Michael E. Kanell Sep. 9--For a year and a half, Atlanta native Deborah Richardson has been running the only public foundation in the state that is focused on women and girls. The Atlanta Women's Foundation has given out more than $9 million to 250 ...
Maid in heaven: Candlewood Suites treats its suite attendants.
Sep 09, 2007 ... Byline: Leon Stafford Sep. 9--The people who make hotel rooms a paradise for guests will soon get a little taste of nirvana themselves. Candlewood Suites will be giving its maids a maid of their own during International Housekeeper's Week, which is this week. ...
Cab drivers, outraged at tickets, refuse to serve airport.
Sep 10, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Tharpe Sep. 10--Taxi drivers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport refused to pick up passengers Monday morning at the world's busiest airport after police ticketed their vehicles, which were blocking a roadway. The protest led to taxi lines of more ...
Realtors group fails to disclose contributions.
Sep 10, 2007 ... Byline: James Salzer Sep. 10--The Georgia Association of Realtors faces the possibility of having to pay the largest fine in State Ethics Commission history after failing to disclose more than $400,000 in campaign contributions to candidates in last year's election. ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Building Blocks column.(Column)
Sep 10, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Pearson Sep. 10--WHAT IT IS: Not many subdivisions can claim a genuine archaeological site as an amenity, but that's the case with Terrasol, a 128-home development going up now on Five Forks Trickum Road in Lilburn. The 75-acre subdivision includes 35 acres of ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ahead of the Curve column.
Sep 10, 2007 ... Sep. 10--$2.9 MILLION FOR AIRPORT HAS KENNESAW REJOICING: Cobb County will receive a $2.9 million grant to improve runways at McCollum Field in Kennesaw, according to Georgia's U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss. The funds will be distributed through the U.S ....
DeKalb theme park forum Tuesday night.
Sep 11, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Donsky Sep. 11--Plans to build an indoor theme park along I-20 in southern DeKalb County may be back on track. The developers say financial problems they ran into last fall that threatened to derail the project have been taken care of, and that the $675 ...
Georgia governor, house speaker discuss divisive budget issues.
Sep 12, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Galloway Sep. 12--Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday revealed that, for the first time since May, he and House Speaker Glenn Richardson sat down together this week to discuss budget issues that caused a breach between the two. But Perdue also told reporters ...
400 condos planned for former bakery site in Atlanta.
Sep 13, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Donsky Sep. 13--More condos are in the works along Atlanta's Beltline, this time near Grant Park. Developers are planning a 400-unit complex with ground-level retail in a light industrial area that's now home to a bakery, said Arthur Cohen, a partner ...
Luxury RV show displays a life all about creature comforts.
Sep 13, 2007 ... Byline: Rosalind Bentley Sep. 13--Who buys a $1.3 million land yacht? Mike Martinkus knows. He sells them in Douglasville. That big boy parked at the Atlanta Camping and RV Show this weekend came from his lot. After 34 years in the ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Maria Saporta column.
Sep 13, 2007 ... Byline: Maria Saporta Sep. 13--Retired Georgia-Pacific CEO A.D. "Pete" Correll just couldn't stay retired. Correll and two business partners, are busy raising money for Atlanta Equity LLC, which will invest in "high-growth, small-cap Southeast companies." ...
Atlanta City Council committees clear $110 million for new terminal.
Sep 13, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Tharpe Sep. 13--A new international terminal for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is still on the drawing boards, but city officials took major steps Wednesday to make sure it's in operation by 2011. Two committees of the Atlanta City Council ...
Electricity co-op is sued by two of its members.
Sep 13, 2007 ... Byline: Steve Visser Sep. 13--A Marietta father and son have filed a lawsuit charging that Cobb EMC Chief Executive Dwight Brown and other officials are siphoning off the cooperative's funds to benefit a private for-profit affiliate that they control. "Cobb Electric ...
Homebuilders launch media blitz to stir sluggish home sales.
Sep 13, 2007 ... Byline: Julie B. Hairston Sep. 13--Faced with growing inventories of unsold homes and reluctant buyers, a coalition of metro Atlanta home builders will launch a media blitz Saturday to spur sluggish sales in the region. Blaming a relentless tide of bad news about home ...
Senate votes to raise airline pilots' mandatory retirement age to 65.
Sep 14, 2007 ... Byline: Marilyn Geewax Sep. 14--WASHINGTON -- Commercial airline pilots who want to keep flying beyond age 60 got encouragement this week when the Senate agreed to allow them to work until age 65. A provision raising the mandatory retirement age was tucked into the ...
Cobb Energy Centre: Venue's funding is artful.
Sep 14, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Opdyke Sep. 14--Imagine your generous uncle agrees to cut you in on a percentage of his earnings each year if you will pursue business ventures that benefit him. Not only will this uncle help you raise money to build your business venue, he'll pay the ...
Future residents get sneak peek at rising Mansion.
Sep 15, 2007 ... Byline: Julie B. Hairston Sep. 15--To City Centre developers John Williams and Clark Butler, the "topping" Friday of the 580-foot Mansion on Peachtree marked the $165 million project's halfway mark to completion. But Shirley Glass -- standing on the 38th floor where ...
Life less hectic at laid-back law firm.
Sep 15, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Torpy Sep. 15--The two lawyers reminisced when they were associates at a silk-stocking Atlanta firm, a time when they were young, aspiring and miserable. Weekends, when they weren't working, were a brief respite from the endless chase of billable hours ....
Despite slow market, real estate still hyped to investors.
Sep 15, 2007 ... Byline: Matt Kempner Sep. 15--He had long blond locks and sparkling studs in each earlobe. She was blond and coifed, strutting in front of a crowd in a convention room of a DeKalb County hotel. "Write this down," she said. About 45 listeners -- hungry for secrets on ...
Southern towns hope to ride auto-plant boom, avoid bust.
Sep 16, 2007 ... Byline: Marilyn Geewax Sep. 16--CAMPBELL, Ohio -- Like a stomach punch, the news hit men so hard they bent over -- tried to breathe, but couldn't. On "Black Monday" -- Sept. 19, 1977 -- the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. announced its Campbell Works on Youngstown's ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Building Blocks column.(Column)
Sep 17, 2007 ... Sep. 17--WHAT IT IS: The Mansion on Peachtree is a 42-story luxury hotel and condo project near Lenox Square mall. It will have 127 hotel rooms and up to 42 condos. Condo prices will start at about $2.6 million for nearly 3,000 square feet of space on a lower floor. But you'll need $12 ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ahead of the Curve column.
Sep 18, 2007 ... Sep. 18--WATER WAR STILL HOT AS DROUGHT CONTINUES: The recent rainfall has done little to take the edge off the current drought, which already is setting records. And it's done nothing to douse the sparks between Georgia and Alabama, which are still battling over waters in the ...
Fed cut: Who it would help?
Sep 18, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Kanell Sep. 18--Wall Street has been pleading for lower interest rates -- cheaper money. And it?s not just investors spooked by the subprime crisis, a shaky economy puts the Fed in a bind. Still, after more than a year of holding rates higher as a hedge against ...
Traffic stunner: Total freeway miles decline in metro.
Sep 18, 2007 ... Byline: Ariel Hart Sep. 18--A historic shift occurred on Atlanta's gridlocked highways in 2005. For the first time since at least 1982, in spite of a steadily increasing population, the total miles driven on urban Atlanta freeways fell. That was the local news in a ...
Passenger to pay $800 fine for snakes on plane.
Sep 18, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Tharpe Sep. 18--A man who tried to bring 30 dead snakes into the country aboard an Atlanta-bound airliner last month could soon be $800 poorer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has issued two citations against the man, one for failing to declare the ...
Neighbors sue city over wind tower built in historic district.
Sep 18, 2007 ... Byline: Kevin Duffy Sep. 18--Neighbors of an energy-producing wind tower erected in Grant Park last month have sued, saying the permit for the tower was issued in error. Curt and Christine Mann should have been required to obtain a certificate of appropriateness for ...
Investor fraud lands Ponzi planner in prison.
Sep 18, 2007 ... Byline: Bill Torpy Sep. 18--An Atlanta man convicted of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of nearly $20 million was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison. Gene A. O'Neal, 36, who headed the real estate investment firm Pinnacle Development ...
Residential project planned for Piedmont neighborhood.
Sep 18, 2007 ... Byline: Julie B. Hairston Sep. 18--A familiar Morningside-area landmark may soon give way to development incentives closing in from surrounding areas. The southeast corner of Piedmont and Cheshire Bridge roads has been targeted for a new mixed-use development ...
Newell Rubbermaid to launch line of men's grooming tools.
Sep 19, 2007 ... Byline: Leon Stafford Sep. 19--Men have no problems wrestling alligators, building ever-bigger skyscrapers or even admitting to crying at the end of "Old Yeller." But just try getting them down the cosmetics aisle to get that pair of much-needed fingernail clippers ...
$19 million Atlanta home draws real estate elite.
Sep 19, 2007 ... Byline: Julie B. Hairston Sep. 19--Standing on the Descante patio in the early evening light of a perfect Indian summer day, an assembly of real estate heavy-hitters marveled breathlessly at the refined charms of the $19 million listing. And these are professionals ...
A loud 'no' to South Fulton city.
Sep 20, 2007 ... Byline: D.L. Bennett Sep. 20--Fulton County voters overwhelmingly rejected the proposed city of South Fulton on Tuesday, preventing the county from becoming the first in Georgia with every property inside a city. The decision means Fulton County commissioners will ...
Broker sentenced to 28 years for mortgage fraud in Atlanta.
Sep 21, 2007 ... Byline: Jeffry Scott Sep. 21--A federal judge on Friday in Atlanta sentenced Phillip E. Hill to 28 years in prison and ordered him to pay more than $41 million in restitution for a massive mortgage scheme he operated mainly in metro Atlanta during the city's real estate boom ...
Decatur's Oakhurst split over preservation status.
Sep 21, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Donsky Sep. 21--Residents in the Oakhurst section of Decatur are proud of the tidy bungalows that line the neighborhood's streets. Run-down homes, many dating to the early 20th century, have been painstakingly restored, preserving the clean lines and ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Biz (off)beat column.(Column)
Sep 23, 2007 ... Byline: Julie B. Hairston Sep. 23--Forget rappelling down a cliff and touchy-feely sessions in the conference room. Some Atlanta area companies are using whisks and saute pans to build camaraderie among their workers. For the past five months, Nirvana Cafe ...
Businesses still wait for countdown.
Sep 23, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Keefe Sep. 23--LONG BEACH, Calif. -- After SpaceShipOne pierced the heavens high over California in the first private manned spaceflight, many expected the event would immediately ignite a new era of commercial space businesses. But three years after that ...
Aviation convention flies into Atlanta.
Sep 24, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Tharpe Sep. 24--The 8,000-member National Business Aviation Association kicks off its 60th annual meeting in Atlanta starting Tuesday. The event, runs through Thursday, is expected to attract 30,000 attendees including 1,000 or so vendors, take up a ...
NBAA to battle over airline, aircraft fees at Atlanta conference.(Conference news)
Sep 25, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Tharpe Sep. 25--The 8,000-member National Business Aviation Association comes to town this week, primed for a fight with the commercial airlines over who will pay for improvements to the nation's outdated air-traffic-control system. The NBAA, which ...
Study: Late mortgage payers in Atlanta kept homes after counseling.
Sep 25, 2007 ... Byline: Peralte C. Paul Sep. 25--The majority of metro Atlanta homeowners who fell behind in their mortgage payments but sought help within three months are less likely to lose their houses, according to a study released Tuesday by Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater ...
Georgia foundations' donations are on the rise.
Sep 25, 2007 ... Byline: Maria Saporta Sep. 25--Georgia foundations gave away more than $718 million in 2005 -- a 15.2 percent increase in five years that nevertheless trailed the national average, according to a report released Tuesday by the Foundation Center. The report -- Key ...
Streets of Buckhead soon to include new hotel, office building, retail space.
Sep 26, 2007 ... Byline: Kevin Duffy Sep. 26--The Streets of Buckhead project is expanding across Peachtree Road to include the site of the old Three Dollar Cafe and adjoining land. Ben Carter Properties and Barry Hotel Partners announced Tuesday plans to build a Hotel Monaco, a ...
New system checks green cards, work permits for fakes.
Sep 26, 2007 ... Byline: Eunice Moscoso Sep. 26--WASHINGTON -- Businesses, facing a government crackdown on hiring illegal immigrants, now have one more tool to help them verify a worker's status. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services unveiled a system Tuesday that matches ...
Small Atlanta firm wins $15 million grant for AIDS vaccine research.
Sep 27, 2007 ... Byline: Craig Schneider Sep. 27--A small Atlanta company showing promising results on an AIDS vaccine has received a $15 million federal grant to further its research and clinical trials. The National Institutes of Health awarded the large grant after Atlanta-based ...
Stifled home sales don't slow Home Show.
Sep 28, 2007 ... Byline: Chandler Brown Sep. 28--With the rest of the country reeling from a housing crisis, Marcel Baghdadi was focused squarely on a Styrofoam-like home insulation system. "It's very interesting and energy efficient, too," the 53-year-old restaurant owner turned ...
Robotics evolve into practical everyday use.
Sep 29, 2007 ... Byline: David Ho Sep. 29--NEW YORK -- iRobot CEO Colin Angle likes to talk about the Jetsons, the 1960s cartoon characters who inhabited a utopian, high-tech future complete with Rosey the robot housekeeper, often seen pushing an upright vacuum cleaner. Decades ...
At New Era store, Braves loyalty apparent in baseball-cap inventory.
Sep 30, 2007 ... Byline: Nedra Rhone Sep. 30--Atlanta is Braves country, at least when it comes to caps. Of the 1,100 hats in stock at the recently opened New Era flagship store downtown, the official team cap with the Braves logo is the most popular style, says manager Steven ...