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Matt Kempner

Matt Kempner is the AJC's business assignment editor, leading a team of business reporters. He joined the AJC as a local government reporter, then covered a variety of business beats and eventually served as the AJC's public editor.

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Diana Harbour and her husband launched The Red Dress Boutique in Athens. But now they generate much more in sales from online orders, relying on their warehouse in Athens. Customers get a handwritten thank you note in a red envelope. September 24, 2013. MATT KEMPNER/ MKEMPNER@AJC.COM

Web strategy pays off for Athens retailer

From her cubicle at a credit card company in Columbus, Ga., Diana Harbour saw a flat trajectory for her life ahead. It terrified her.Eight hours a day, the English lit major wrote bland paragraphs of boilerplate to be printed on credit card statements. She also plotted her dream.Eight years later ...

Monica L. Ponder, who is an epidemiologist who worked as a health communicator at the CDC, talks with her daughter Lindsey, 6, as she checks her blog at their home in Atlanta on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. Vignettes of how three to four now-out-of-work federal workers in metro Atlanta are bracing for the financial hit from a partial government shutdown.

Georgia’s federal workers begin filing for jobless aid

The number of people receiving unemployment benefits in Georgia could nearly double if most federal workers in the state seek aid as a result of the government’s partial shutdown. But Georgia’s beleaguered trust fund for benefits will be OK, state labor officials say. About 5,000 federal employees around the state ...