Corporations held back over the past few years while profits remained strong, so they're now investing in people and building capacity for continued growth.

We live here; we know how to get around town. Many of these people didn't even know Athens County existed two weeks ago.

We want to make these people feel like Athens is their home.

1996 also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.