Sept. 23, 2024 Georgia.gov
Staff reports that Gov. Kemp on Friday announced the fifth round of grant awards for the Rural Workforce Housing Initiative, totaling more than $4.8 million in infrastructure development and supporting 129 housing units in Brunswick and Chatham counties. In addition to meeting the grant and OneGeorgia Authority requirements, award recipients demonstrated strong collaboration between the communities and real estate developers.
Sept. 23, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Julia Roberts reports, ABLE Kids founder and CEO Allan Soto and his team have a long-standing history helping those with special needs. His story started in 2007, providing assisted living groups and day centers for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through his former company Soto ALG (assisted living group).
Sept. 23, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mirtha Donastorg reports, new workforce development initiatives at Atlanta Technical College, Goodwill of North Georgia and the Atlanta Department of Labor and Employment Services are getting a financial boost from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. The foundation is giving nearly $4.5 million to the three organizations.
Sept. 23, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Joseph Schwartzburt reports, “This is no normal topping off,” said Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Greg Dozier referring to Thursday’s ceremonial raising of the final beam for Georgia Quick Start’s Hyundai Mobility Training Center. He said so because the center is part of the “largest economic investment in the state of Georgia.”
Sept. 23, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
John Bailey reports, demolition of buildings on the former Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital property, now dubbed the Battey Business Complex, is expected to begin in earnest early next year. The property is zoned for heavy industrial use and VT Industries is in the works to purchase 21 acres and a building on the property for $1.6 million.
Sept. 23, 2024 The Current
Mary Landers reports that Bryan and Bulloch counties are seeking permits to withdraw 6.625 million gallons of water a day from the Floridan aquifer to support the Hyundai EV manufacturing plant, but fundamental questions remain about how the Korean company calculated its usage needs or how the water will be used.
Sept. 23, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Trevor Williams reports, a market of 50 million people with a longstanding free trade agreement with the U.S. and a growing appetite for engagement with Atlanta, Colombia has never seemed closer to Georgia than today. But very soon, the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will demystify the country further, leading a trip there for the first time in more than a decade.
Sept. 23, 2024 The Brunswick News
Gordon Jackson reports that a local nonprofit is still waiting for the Brunswick Housing Authority to issue vouchers necessary to move homeless people into a 60-home tiny home village. Linda Heagy, secretary of Hand in Hand of Glynn, said she cannot get anyone from the housing authority to return her calls to learn when they can start move homeless people on a waiting list into the 50 tiny home waiting for them.
Sept. 23, 2024 Saporta Report
Maria Saporta reports, the historic Bobby Jones Clubhouse will be transformed into a performing arts center that will serve as permanent home for the Atlanta Opera. It will feature a nature-inspired recital hall, an immersive theater venue, educational spaces, a rehearsal area as well as administrative offices.
Sept. 23, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Stanley Dunlap reports, three Donald Trump loyalist Georgia State Election Board members adopted a contentious rule Friday requiring the hand counting of ballots cast during the upcoming Nov. 5 election despite warnings from county election directors that it could lead to more delays with reporting results this fall. The rule requiring local hand counts was just one rule on the agenda at a daylong hearing Friday that will spill over into Monday when the election board is set to reconvene to return to the rest of the list.
Sept. 23, 2024 WABE
Elena Moore reports, it remains uncertain if young voters — who historically do not turn out as highly as older generations — will show up this year. Especially in crucial swing states like Georgia, which President Biden flipped in 2020 by less than half a percentage point, and voting this year begins on Oct. 15.
Sept. 23, 2024 New York Times
Rick Rojas reports, voters in Georgia could be forgiven for once again feeling as if Atlanta has become the center of the universe. It was the site of the disastrous debate performance that torpedoed Mr. Biden’s re-election bid, and it was where Ms. Harris, just over a week later, made her first major campaign stop.
Sept. 23, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that allowing canoes and kayaks only on Georgia rivers and streams deemed navigable would ruin an outdoor recreation industry that brings in billions of dollars, outfitters and paddling enthusiasts told a legislative study committee Friday. “Tourism is a significant economic driver in Georgia,” Amanda Dyson-Thornton, executive director of the Georgia Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, told members of the House Study Committee on Navigable Streams and Related Matters during a hearing at the Unicoi State Park & Lodge near Helen.
Sept. 23, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Michelle Baruchman and Isaac Sabetai report, American voters saw contrasts between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump during the Sept. 10 presidential debate in Philadelphia, but those differences were largely in style, leaving some voters wanting to know more about their policy ideas. Here are the issues that ranked highest in importance to Georgia voters, according to a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.
