Anheuser-Busch, which continued to grow its Cartersville brewery after the iconic beer company’s merger with Belgium’s InBev in 2008, is pouring more into the plant with an $85 million expansion. The investment in Bartow County will create 12 jobs, diversifying a facility that already makes 20 brands in the global beer conglomerate’s portfolio — including the recently certified […]
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Attendees at Korean Chamber Dinner Asked to Bring Questions for Former Ambassador
The 2020 Census should settle the questions about how many Korean-Americans are living in the U.S. Southeast. For now, however, the estimates of the Korean Consulate General based in Atlanta are about as good as you can get and the consulate’s estimate for the seven states and the Virgin Islands, over which it has jurisdiction, […]
Holocaust Remembrance Event to Focus on Denmark’s Ordinary Heroes
Jewish organization Am Yisrael Chai‘s annual Holocaust remembrance event later this month in Atlanta will focus on the remarkable actions of Danes to resist the Nazi regime’s attempts to send Denmark’s Jews to concentration camps. The “Rescue and Refuge” event Jan. 26 will feature as its keynote speaker Rabbi Bent Melchior, whose father, Chief Rabbi […]
Our 19 Most-Read Stories of 2019
Looking at our list of top stories for 2019, it’s hard not to be a little disappointed as an editor. After all, we pride ourselves in being a publication that primarily uses business as the lens through which we illuminate the ways Atlanta is connected to the world — or more specifically, to the global […]
Books 2019: The Literary Giant Who Valued the Little Man
Book: Samuel Johnson: A Biography Author: Professor John Wain Review by: Phil Bolton, founder, Global Atlanta During a recent Christmas tour of homes in Atlanta, I visited several newly, beautifully restored houses and was most struck by the absence of books on the shelves. It was said that in the South every house had both […]
Books 2019: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About Humanity Before History
Book: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Author: David Reich Reviewed by: Glenn P. Hendrix, Chair, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP I’m fascinated by prehistory. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 200,000 years, but the earliest recorded history dates back only a […]
Books 2019: Embracing Possibilities of the AI Competition With China
Book: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Author: Kai-Fu Lee Review by: Al Hodge, president of Hodge Consulting Services Artificial intelligence is a fascination of mine, especially now that it’s touching our lives more and more each day. Evidence of its widespread nature is in the fact that we all refer […]
Books 2019: Restoring Technology’s Ability to Serve Human Aims
Book: Team Human Author: Douglas Rushkoff Review by: Lee Foster, Executive Director, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University Although I have been working in the performing arts industry for more than 20 years, my recent stint in the academic world at Georgia Tech demanded a return to my roots. I asked myself […]
Books 2019: Rethinking the European Origins of American Tolerance
Book: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Author: Russell Shorto Review by: Trevor Williams, Managing Editor, Global Atlanta Anyone who has been through fifth-grade civics would know that European thinkers incubated the American sense of reason and the religious tolerance […]
Books 2019: How and Why ‘My Fellow Americans’ Resounds Across the Pacific
Book: How to Hide an Empire: A History of The Greater United States Author: Daniel Immerwahr Reviewed by: Christopher N. Smith, Attorney at Law and Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark in Georgia A global quest for guano. The need for coal fueling stations for a growing navy. An ascendant global power wishing to […]
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