...investment banker and the son of R.K. Sehgal, Georgia's former commissioner of Industry, Trade & Tourism in the Barnes administration."If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me," Young said. Although Carter...
...transfer and economic development. He's right. That's why the Perdue administration - and before that the Roy Barnes administration - made life sciences a top biotech economic development priority. The average wage in that industry, which is...
...Health) that caused this to be so late was something that this administration inherited." During Gov. Roy Barnes' administration, Community Health used competitive bids to award a five-year, $350-million contract to Affiliated Computer...
...friends. Rank-and-file schoolteachers were incensed at what they considered to be a lack of respect from the Barnes administration's well-intended education reform. State flag proponents were shocked when the Confederate battle flag design...
...he settled for a referendum in March giving Georgia voters a choice between the blue flag adopted during Mr. Barnes' administration and a new flag based on Confederate history but without the St. Andrew's cross. Mr. Harbin said Mr. Perdue...
...budget is an improvement over the one originally proposed by retiring Commissioner Jim Martin, a holdover from the Barnes administration. Martin announced his resignation last month, a day before Perdue appointed seven new members to the board...
...services in an attempt to stay out of the red, however, the sentencing report Mr. Perdue inherited from the Barnes administration is looking more attractive. Two sources speaking on condition of anonymity said plans are in the works to start...
...governor's controversial decision in May to change the state flag from the one instituted under former Gov. Roy Barnes' administration. Outside the municipal building, a group calling themselves Unorganized Patriots demonstrated against the governor...
...victory over former Gov. Roy Barnes in part on a series of news reports detailing ethical lapses within Mr. Barnes' administration. Ethical woes played a more critical role in the defeat of former Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, D-Augusta...
...the Senate and U.S. House maps use sometimes oddly shaped districts. "Some of the (districts) under the Barnes administration look like a mutant salamander, with three tails, six legs and 20 eyes," Mr. McLagan said. Democrats say...
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