WASHINGTON -- Four current or former Capitol Hill staffers shared their experiences working for powerful lawmakers and provided tips for swaying members of Congress at the Washington Public Policy Conference's kickoff advocacy symposium, held here Oct. 3.

FOREST PARK, GA — Howard Mundt, president of Harvest Brokerage Inc. on the Atlanta State Farmers Market, here, knows his industry has an edge that few others can boast.

FOREST PARK, GA — In 1969, father and son Domingo and Julio Rene Diaz opened a neighborhood grocery, Diaz Foods, in midtown Atlanta. Business boomed, and soon the Diaz family had five stores. Within a decade, the foundation had been laid for one of the larger distribution companies of Hispanic products in the United States.