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It felt like last summer on the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives on Friday. Legislative Democrats and one disgruntled Republican got a chance to re-air their complaints about the new House map GOP leaders pushed through the General Assembly during a two-week redistricting session last August. The occasion was a new bill containing a couple of ch […]

Aquilex Holdings LLC completed its restructuring, is now majority owned by affiliates of Centerbridge Partners LP and its CEO has stepped own. Atlanta-based Aquilex Holdings is the parent of Aquilex Corp., which provides maintenance, repair and industrial cleaning products and services to the energy industry. The company said it cut debt by more than $300 mi […]

Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Board of Realtors and RealValuator.com on Thursday held the inaugural Atlanta Real Estate Summit. The 90-minute event at The Home Depot Inc. headquarters featured analysis of market trends from 2011, industry panel and keynote discussion of strategy and planning for 2012. Click the photo on the right for a slideshow of the […]

Jack London cozies up to Frederick Nietzsche in “The Grey,” a sweaty-palmed action film about survival of the fittest... on every imaginable level. En route to an oil rig in Alaska, Liam Neeson and a snack tray of assorted humans crash-land somewhere in the Great White North. There they must survive wolves, weather and each other. Neeson becomes the de facto […]

The Georgia House of Representatives passed a mid-year budget Friday that would help fund additional toll lanes and aid farmers worried about the impacts of the state’s new immigration law. The $18.6 billion budget, which will cover state spending through the end of the current fiscal year, was approved unanimously. The House made few changes in the mid-year […]

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The Seattle coffee chain is holdings auditions to cast "hot young girls as servers" for a new reality show. A recent Tampa casting call, however, came up short. […]

Blogging is increasingly popular, but that doesn't mean it's right for your small business. Here are some reasons you might want to hold off on blogging. […]

Three ways small businesses can turn stories into ads and digital content without a Super Bowl-size budget. […]

After the Super Bowl and the end of the season, some football stars learn business skills and start their own companies. […]