Jan. 10, 2025 Georgia.gov
Staff reports, Gov. Kemp on Thursday declared a statewide State of Emergency, effective immediately through Tuesday, January 14, 2025, in preparation for the approaching winter storm expected to impact Georgia beginning this Friday.
Jan. 10, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Tharon Johnson writes, given how divisive Trump’s rhetoric and actions have been perceived by many, Democrats have either been scratching their heads or pointing their fingers to figure out what went wrong. As we continue to unpack these losses, now is the time to step back and ask ourselves – where do Democrats go from here?
Jan. 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Emma Hurt reports, Delta Air Lines’ brought in record revenue in 2024, with financial results that CEO Ed Bastian says will be a set up for the “best financial year in Delta’s 100-year history” in 2025. The Atlanta airline, which pulled in nearly $62 billion in revenue last year, also announced $1.4 billion in annual profit sharing with its 100,000 employees to be distributed in February.
Jan. 10, 2025 Newnan Times-Herald
Laura Camper reports, Development Authority members addressed their role in Project Sail at their meeting on Thursday. Sarah Jacobs, president of the authority, said Coweta County received a rezoning request that triggered the Developmental Regional Impact study.
Jan. 10, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Joseph Schwartzburt reports that education software company PowerSchool, a contractor with the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, identified a security breach of its system on Dec. 28, 2024. SCCPSS Public Information Manager Sheila Blanco issued a press release Thursday morning that confirmed PowerSchool hosts the district’s Student Information System, which contains personal information such as state student identification numbers, school district code as well as students’ first, middle and last names along with home addresses and dates of birth.
Jan. 10, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Trevor Williams reports, toward the end of 2024, Atlanta gained a new group of African diplomats, adding three new countries to Georgia’s consular corps and bringing the number of nations with representation in the state to 75. Honorary consuls from Botswana, Ghana and Zambia helped offset the loss of accreditation of Liberia and Mali, two African nations that previously had longstanding honorary consuls in Atlanta.
Jan. 10, 2025 WABE
Emily Wu Pearson reports, the U.S. Senate has passed the Laken Riley Act with support from the both Georgia senators. The act would require the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented immigrants for robbery, shoplifting or burglary at the point of arrest, and allow state attorneys general to sue the federal government for failing to enforce immigration law.
Jan. 10, 2025 State Affairs
Tammy Joyner reports, pre-filed legislation is now a thing of the past in the Georgia Legislature. State lawmakers phased out the long-standing tradition where some lawmakers eagerly jockeyed to be among the first to drop their proposed bills in the hopper before the legislative session started.
Jan. 10, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Stanley Dunlap and Ross Williams report that Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his four-year term serving as Georgia’s governor when he used his inauguration address in 1971 to assert a public stand against the racial segregation that still maintained its popularity among many white Georgians.
Jan. 10, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports, two more U.S. attorneys from Georgia are resigning ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month. Peter Leary, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, will step down effective Saturday, while Jill Steinberg, his counterpart for the Southern District of Georgia, will be leaving effective Jan. 17.
Jan. 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, movement on the Republican-backed measure named after a slain Georgia nursing student may be the sharpest indication yet of a post-election shift within the Democratic Party over immigration and border security policies. A spokesman for Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, facing a tough reelection battle in 2026, said Thursday he will back the Laken Riley Act, which would let law enforcement officers detain and possibly deport immigrants who are living in the country illegally and have been accused of theft or burglary.