Georgia Trend Daily – April 5, 2019
April 5, 2019 Savannah Morning News
Savannah Port sets March records, cuts cargo movement time
DeAnn Komanecky reports that rail and containerized cargo volumes continue to grow at the Port of Savannah with records set in March, both in time and quantity. “I would like to thank our employees at GPA, the stevedores and the International Longshoremen’s Association for helping to make this accomplishment possible,” said Griff Lynch, GPA’s executive director.
April 5 2019 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Savannah’s mysteries and manners
Susan Percy reports that Savannah has a lot going for it – tourist-wise and resident-wise. Keeping the balance requires vigilance and cooperation, says Michael Owens, president and CEO of the city’s Tourism Leadership Council. The $3-billion-a-year tourism industry is responsible for some of the city’s prime attributes.
April 5 2019 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia in line to get $3.5 million for company’s diesel cheating
Christopher Quinn reports that the state of Georgia is set to receive more than $3.5 million from an international engineering company connected to the faulty diesel engines that cheated their way past emission standards. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is joining other attorneys general across the United States in suing global engineering firm Robert Bosch GmbH and its related company Robert Bosch, saying it provided the car computers and software that enabled the cheating in more than 600,000 engines sold by Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
April 5 2019 Atlanta Business Chronicle
Delta is an on-time arrivals winner; United is not
Lewis Lazare reports that Delta Air Lines, the carrier that really knows a thing or two about on time performance, has done it again. The Atlanta-based carrier finished in first place and well ahead of its three largest United States-base competitors, including American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines, in the March on-time arrival data released Thursday by airline data behemoth OAG.
April 5 2019 Brunswick News
FLETC director discusses center’s impact to region and nation
Gordon Jackson reports that the impact to the local economy by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center cannot be overstated. During a speech Thursday, Director Thomas Walters explained the training center’s history, its relationship with the surrounding community and the challenging missions facing the graduates who go on to serve in a variety of law enforcement positions nationwide.
April 5 2019 GPB
National Geographic Sees The Future Of Cities In Atlanta, Duluth
Leighton Rowell and Virginia Prescott report, by 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.8 billion people. According to a report by the United Nations, nearly 70% of them are projected to live in urban areas. If current patterns hold, those who flock to the megacities of the future will face issues with affordable housing and increased hours in traffic.
April 5 2019 Saporta Report
Proposed state oversight of 104 local airports would include Gwinnett’s growing field
David Pendered reports that a pending renewal and expansion on the runway of Gwinnett County’s airport evidently is the type of job that some state lawmakers had in mind when they talked about greater state involvement in local airports. Gwinnett’s airport also highlights the impact of the state’s 104 publicly-owned, public use airports. The sector that some lawmakers have expressed interest in exerting greater control is now largely in the hands of local officials.
April 5 2019 Dalton Daily Citizen
Founded in Dalton more than 40 years ago, family-owned Material Handling Inc. has expanded across Southeast
Charles Oliver reports that the map on the wall of its Dalton headquarters tells the story, well, much of the story of Material Handling Inc.’s reach. The business sells and leases forklifts and other material handling equipment from North Georgia into Central Tennessee and Southeast Kentucky.
April 5 2019 WABE 90.1
Georgia Governor Signs Law Addressing Some Criticisms Of Contested 2018 Election
Johnny Kauffman reports that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has quietly signed a sweeping overhaul of the way elections are administered in the state. It includes several provisions, backed by Democrats, to address concerns about how nonwhite voters are treated that were raised during Kemp’s election last year.
April 5 2019 Brunswick News
Carters asks Feds to remove Georgia from offshore oil and gas plans
Wes Wolfe reports that the state House of Representatives resolution against energy exploration off the Georgia coast — passed with a 125-36 vote — now has measurable impact. Thursday, U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-1, sent a letter to Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt asking him to remove Georgia from an as-yet unreleased 2019-2024 five-year plan for oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf.
April 5 2019 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Macon Telegraph
She was mayor of Columbus and now she’s taking a step toward a US Senate bid
Tim Chitwood reports that former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson is planning to take the first official steps today toward challenging Republican U.S. Senator David Perdue in the 2020 election, according to an exclusive interview Thursday with the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Tomlinson met Wednesday with Democratic Party leaders in Washington, D.C., who she says approved of her candidacy, though they still are waiting for Stacey Abrams, who in 2018 ran against Brian Kemp for Georgia governor, to decide whether she will enter the race.
April 5 2019 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Jolt: The topic was Joe Biden. ‘We can’t have perfection as a litmus test,’ said Stacey Abrams
Jim Galloway, Greg Bluestein and Tamar Hallerman report, on Wednesday afternoon, in a two-minute, straight-to-camera video, former Vice President Joe Biden promised to put more physical distance between himself and the women he encounters while campaigning.
