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Coke to move nearly 2,000 workers downtown
Coca-Cola confirmed on Monday it plans to relocate a substantial number of information technology workers from Cobb County to downtown Atlanta. The Atlanta-based beverage giant said it plans to move 2,000 workers and operate an “Information Technology Center of Excellence” in offices tied to the SunTrust Banks headquarters complex on ...
Motorola Solutions eyeing move to Atlanta
Atlanta may call another Fortune 500 company home. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports Motorola Solutions is scouting potential sites here in Atlanta for its headquarters. A move here from its current base of operations in Illinois would bring 800 jobs to the metro area. Motorola Solutions has no comment. Earlier ...
AT&T to hire 600 new workers in Georgia
AT&T said Thursday it is immediately hiring for 600 new full-time and part-time jobs across Georgia. The positions are in network construction and maintenance, customer support and retail. Many of the jobs come from AT&T’s Project Velocity, a three-year, multibillion dollar investment to expand its national wireless and wired IP ...
Report: Home prices climb again in metro Atlanta
Home prices in metro Atlanta were up yet again in March – both on an annual and monthly basis—as the region’s housing recovery continues to show strength. The closely-watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices reported on Tuesday home prices in the metro area were up 19.1 percent over March 2012 and ...
Tax plan stirs clash of titans
An online sales-tax proposal has triggered a divisive debate among business owners and attracted a strange-bedfellows mix of supporters that includes the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown. The “Marketplace Fairness Act,” which will be voted on by the U.S. Senate as early as Monday, ...
More than 40% of Georgia homes underwater
In an arc that stretches from Cartersville to McDonough to Winder, dozens of metro Atlanta neighborhoods are drowning. There’s not another metro area in the United States with as many concentrated pockets of mortgage holders who are underwater on their loans. No place else comes close. The nationwide data, complied ...
Obama - Wealth Envy Warlord
Before I climb in the captain’s share and turn the ignition switch on the BoortzBus, I wanted to vent a bit about 0bama’s constant and intense class warfare campaign. In actuality it’s a campaign based on wealth envy. “Those people are making more money than you, and they’re not paying ...
Gen X and Gen Y falling behind parents’ wealth
For young people today, the American dream of working hard, saving money and becoming richer than their parents may be out of reach, according to a new study. Americans in their mid-30s and younger have accumulated less wealth than their parents did at that age more than 25 years ago ...
Freebie Corner: Free 1 year subscription to Ladies Home Journal and more
Spring is finally here, hopefully it's getting warmer where you are. There are some really great freebies starting to pop up. If you want to stay bug free while you enjoy the great outdoors, you can get a free mosquito repellant bracelet right now. Need something to read on a ...
Ask Jane: Can I take a tax break for college expenses?
If you’re paying for higher education, the government is actually here to help you. You can write off part of the cost on your tax return. You can take one of three tax breaks, but only two of them are worth your while. You qualify for the write-offs if you’re paying tuition for ...
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