Sept. 16, 2024 WSB TV, WSB Radio
Staff reports that Atlanta-based Home Depot has settled a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles County, California that alleged they were overcharging customers and had false advertising. The company will pay out $1,977,251 to settle the lawsuit, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced.
Sept. 16, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Sara Haynes reports, it’s hard not to get excited about what is going on in Cobb County when you talk to the executive directors of the Cumberland, Town Center and Gateway Marietta Community Improvement Districts, or CIDs. All three are working on master plans that envision improvements over the next 10 to 15 years, but they already have produced an impressive pipeline of projects.
Sept. 16, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Zachary Hansen reports, Gov. Brian Kemp set out about five years ago to make Georgia the “e-mobility capital of the world.” In that time, Georgia has emerged as not only an e-mobility hub, but a clean technology giant.
Sept. 16, 2024 Fox 5 Atlanta
Staff reports that AT&T announced it has reached two tentative agreements with the southeast and west Communications Workers of America (CWA), the largest communications and media labor union in the U.S. The company is hoping to end its workers’ month-long strike as soon as Monday.
Sept. 16, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Trevor Williams reports, Qualified Georgia companies are being invited to apply for a fully funded buyers’ mission to Cape Town next March. The picturesque capital of South Africa’s Western Cape province each year hosts the Made in the Cape conference featuring food, components and finished goods available for purchase.
Sept. 16, 2024 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Mark Rice reports, in fiscal year 2024, Columbus had an estimated 2.07 million visitors travel to the city and spend an estimated $377 million, according to the VisitColumbusGA analysis in partnership with the Butler Center for Business and Economic Research at Columbus State University. That compares favorably to fiscal year 2019, which had estimates of 2.3 million visitors spending $364 million, then dipped to 1.9 million visitors spending $213 million during the height of the pandemic in fiscal year 2020.
Sept. 16, 2024 State Affairs
Tammy Joyner reports, “We’ll be looking at springtime before those buses start rolling,” said Ken Johnson, pupil transportation program manager for the Georgia Department of Education. Johnson said that when the new buses get on the road, they will go throughout the state — “rural Georgia to downtown Atlanta” — with the greatest need likely in fast-growing metro areas where “some of our oldest buses are probably running.”
Sept. 16, 2024 The Brunswick News
Gordon Jackson reports, Trident Refit Facility, the command responsible for maintaining Ohio-class submarines at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, is preparing to celebrate its 35th birthday. Construction began in the 1970s and Trident Refit achieved initial operational capability Sept. 30, 1989.
Sept 16, 2024 GPB
Sofi Gratas reports, tenants and former tenants of public housing developments showed up at the Atlanta headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week demanding leaders address their concerns about poor living conditions. Diana Brown, a caregiver from Albany, was part of the small group to rally outside the offices downtown.
Sept. 16, 2024 Newnan Times-Herald
Jeffrey Cullen-Dean reports, the adoptions of a new ordinance that would regulate solar energy system in the county was delayed again. A public hearing was held at the Coweta Board of Commissioners’ Thursday night meeting regarding the ordinance.
Sept. 16, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that the role private water systems can and should play in meeting the demands of Georgia’s growing population will be the focus of a legislative study committee that will begin meeting next week. Private water systems became an issue earlier this year when the Republican-controlled General Assembly voted largely along party lines to allow private utilities to provide water in areas where no public service can be provided within 18 months.
Sept. 16, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Stanley Dunlap reports, in a rare bipartisan consensus about Georgia’s election process, both Republican and Democratic leaders agree that persistent mail delivery delays in the state could cost voters who use absentee ballots their chance to be counted on Election Day this November. The stakes are high, as Georgia is again considered a swing state that will likely help decide who will be the next U.S. president.
Sept. 16, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Blake Silvers reports that Democrats have officially come out in opposition of a candidate qualified for the 11th Congressional District race against incumbent Republican Barry Loudermilk in November. A petition to oppose current Democratic candidate Katy Stamper in an effort led by the Bartow County Democratic Committee has been approved by district Democratic constituents in a move that party officials say aims to “uphold values aligned with the party and reject Stamper’s platform.”
Sept. 16, 2024 New York Times
Eli Saslow reports, Helen Strahl stood at the front of a conference room in Savannah, Ga., last month and looked out at her audience, the evolving face of election denialism in 2024. There were no armed militia groups in attendance, no would-be revolutionaries dressed in capes and horns.
Sept. 16, 2024 WABE
Sam Gringlas reports, Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones will not face criminal charges for his actions in the weeks after the 2020 election, including signing onto a slate of electors for former President Donald Trump after Joe Biden won Georgia’s electoral votes. Three other so-called “fake electors” were indicted last August by a grand jury in Fulton County on criminal charges including racketeering.
Sept. 16, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, a fresh debate over gun safety policy is poised to be one of the most pressing issues before the Georgia Legislature when lawmakers reconvene next year. A new poll from a Republican-aligned firm could provide a blueprint for their plans.
