Vanessa Echols: Life’s Circle Continues

by Laura Dorsey  It is incredible when life comes full circle, and you get to engage with people years down the line.   That is what Jennifer Yon felt when she realized that Vanessa Echols would grace the cover of the magazine that she had founded years ago. A little fanned out, Jennifer remembers that as a journalism student, how…

Benge Development Corporation

Before scheduling a meeting with Tony Benge of Benge Development Corporation, it occurred to me that to write about development, that I should understand what the word meant. Development is a process that creates growth, progress, positive change, or the addition of physical, economic, environmental, social, political and demographic components.  I could have saved myself…