Merge two huge airlines like Atlanta-based Delta and Minnesota’s Northwest into one mega-airline, and a few things have to go on the old to-do list. . . .

There’s less money among local governments to fight the potential deadly diseases

Federal and state regulators have put as many as one-third of Georgia’s 300 banks under intensified monitoring and recovery plans, mostly strict enforcement orders a step or two short of seizure, according to banking experts. . . .

North Georgia is becoming the hub of “detention technology” and Steel Cell is leading the way in constructing new pens for terrorists and other law offenders.

We may have reached the bottom of our economic descent, but certain segments remain more like black holes that threaten what is likely to be at best an anemic recovery. . . .

So far, they’ve kept it clean. “I don’t consider this war,” said Carl Howard, the chief operating officer of Autobell Car Wash, explaining his company’s incursion into Atlanta where it is taking on consumer good’s giant Procter & Gamble’s chain of Mr. . . .

First Data Corp., the payments processor that once called Atlanta home, is coming back — and bringing 250 jobs with it. . . .

Northern Tool + Equipment recently renovated its Marietta store, and is hosting a grand reopening Saturday, featuring local celebrities from 8 a.m. . . .

This weekend, at the Parade of Planes event at Gwinnett County/Briscoe Field, buyers from all over the country will check out the newest private planes.

AirTran Airways and Delta Air Lines have made Atlanta the city with the largest concentration of planes equipped with in-flight wi-fi Internet access. . . .