Businesses don’t want to be immigration police

What’s was the top concern of local small business owners attending last week’s National Federation of Independent Business?

Downtown master plan meetings run smoothly

The most clever television commercial I’ve seen lately is for an online job search company for upper-income professionals.

Government: A blessing for the economy

Times like these (as in “so-so”) make me glad to live here. Although the recent economic downturn (no one is using the R-word yet) has business and industry in many parts of the nation pulling on the emergency brake, the Augusta-Aiken metro area has simply eased off on the gas pedal.

$4 a gallon for gas? They’re not even trying

When I heard that Hurricane Katrina was going to damage refineries and offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, I quickly left work and filled the tank of my Bonneville in anticipation of a shortage that never came.