by IAG Staff | Jan 15, 2014 | Floating Boats
Want to be a millionaire? Drop whatever you’re doing and get over to Georgia Tech to enroll. The publication Times Higher Education informs us that Tech produces more graduates that become million- aires than all but 79 schools on planet Earth. Just ahead of Tech was...
by IAG Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Floating Boats
Cotton, carpet and kaolin. All are traditionally big industries in Georgia. And now comes—foreign nationals going to colleges and other post-secondary schools in the state. Total spending by these mostly young scholars surpassed the $500 million mark this year for the...
by IAG Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Floating Boats
What do Peyton Manning, Steve Spurrier and Fran Tarkenton have in common? None of them threw as many touchdown passes in their Southeastern Conference football careers as current Georgia quarter- back Aaron Murray. On Nov. 9, the senior from Tampa lit up the score-...
by IAG Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Floating Boats
Georgia has a cotton-picking problem. Cooler temperatures and excessive rain this summer delayed the harvesting of this year’s crop. The Peach State grew about $1.2 billion of cotton in 2012, which pro- vided jobs for more than 53,000 Georgians. Those are numbers...
by IAG Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Floating Boats
Phil Gingrey will NOT be a U.S. senator—in 2021. The Marietta congressman is running next year for Sen. Saxby Chambliss’s soon-to- be-vacated seat. Gingrey has pledged that as Georgia’s junior senator, he would “help repeal Obamacare in [his] first term or go home.”...
