Kristi Swartz covers utilities and telecom as a business reporter for the AJC. She was hired to the business desk in 2008 and covered media, tech, telecom, utilities and the business of sports before spending two years on digital's ""breaking news"" team.
Last night I had a nightmare that I didn’t leave enough time to get to the AJC Peachtree Road Race. On top of that, I was wearing layers of sweaters and a leather jacket and was scrambling to remove them before hustling to the starting line. I think we all ...
The Georgia Tech area will soon be the new home of an AT&T innovation center that would add dozens of new research jobs and power a high-tech incubator designed to generate more startups across metro Atlanta, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The company has selected ...
Atlanta will soon be the new home of an AT&T innovation center that would add dozens of research jobs and power a high-tech incubator designed to generate more startups across the metro area, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The company has selected the Georgia Tech ...
Southern Co., the Atlanta-based energy giant known for being well-run and financially robust, has been wrestling with an unusual number of high-profile setbacks lately. Construction challenges at a subsidiary’s new coal power plant in Mississippi cut into the company’s profits, led to a new president at Mississippi Power and a ...
Happy Friday, everyone. As I mentioned earlier this week, the bib numbers for the AJC Peachtree Road Race are in the mail. I received mine yesterday. If your number hasn’t arrived, fear not, it should be there in your mailbox next week. Where are you running this weekend? If you ...
It’s getting real: the bib numbers for the AJC Peachtree Road Race will hit the mail starting today. It’s going to take about a week for all of the numbers to be mailed out, so if you don’t get a number soon, don’t panic. For those picking up a bib ...
Greetings from my home state of Maryland where it looks like I may be running a 10K in the rain tomorrow thanks to Tropical Storm Andrea. But I the latest weather report for metro Atlanta shows sun and maybe some clouds in the area tomorrow, so I hope everyone will ...
“Smart” devices help us drive our cars more safely, monitor our homes from across the country and pay for something with a tap of our phone. But could such technology become an Achilles’ heel? Georgia Power and other utilities, for instance, use “smart” meters to remotely record how much electricity ...
It’s June 14th, do you know what that means? The AJC Peachtree Road Race is less than three weeks away. How is the training going? It seems as if the heat and humidity is here for good, so for first-time Peachtree runners, if you haven’t been running outside, now is ...
As I mentioned earlier, I’ll be running in a 5K tomorrow as some early preparation for the AJC Peachtree Road Race. I’m grateful to have some friends joining me – I simply asked if they could be there at the finish line, but they went ahead and registered to participate. ...
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