Georgia Trend Daily – Sept. 21, 2023
Sept. 21, 2023 GlobalAtlanta.com
Innova Bets on India in Pursuit of Next $3 Billion
Trevor Williams reports that a growing Atlanta tech company whose steady rise started with serving the needs of U.S. companies from India now sees its future tied to the growth in the country. Duluth-based Innova Solutions, a homegrown, 25-year-old company is also expanding in Europe, having completed the acquisition of Volt International earlier this year.
Sept. 21, 2023 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Remember the Titan
Tharon Johnson writes, Atlanta has been home to countless icons from business to politics to civil rights. However, there are few who can claim to have merged their advocacy, political and business acumen more successfully over the course of their life than Marvin Arrington, Sr.
Sept. 21, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia honored for economic ties that bolster U.S.-Korea alliance
J. Scott Trubey reports that for the past three years, Georgia has announced record-breaking levels of corporate investment and a job creation surge, fueled in no small part by billions of dollars from Korean companies like Hyundai Motor Group for manufacturing in the Peach State.
Sept. 21, 2023 Saporta Report
Atlanta Public Schools plans affordable housing and more for surplus properties, names two pilot projects
John Ruch reports that Atlanta Public Schools (APS) may team with the City’s brand-new affordable housing organization on community-led, history-preserving remakes of several surplus properties – starting with the former Lakewood Heights and Peeples Street school sites.
Sept. 21, 2023 Dalton Daily Citizen
Kobayashi Healthcare International breaks ground on expansion of its Dalton facility
Staff reports that Kobayashi Healthcare International recently held the groundbreaking for an expansion of its Dalton facility. The expansion will bring the facility to 397,748 square feet and add to its production area, offices and warehouse.
Sept. 21, 2023 The Brunswick News
IPC amends plans for four-story Sea Island Co. employee housing building
Gordon Jackson reports, a large crowd attended Tuesday’s Islands Planning Commission meeting where a request from the Sea Island Co. to allow living quarters on the first floor of a four-story building near St. Simons Christian School was discussed.
Sept. 21, 2023 Georgia Recorder
State officials dig in to launch center for Georgians with disabilities who are in crisis
Jill Nolin reports, work will soon begin on a new center in Macon that will focus exclusively on serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who also have behavioral health challenges. The center, which is set to open in early 2025, will treat people with disabilities from all over the state who might otherwise end up at local hospitals with no place else to go.
Sept. 21, 2023 Macon Telegraph
Georgia has the nation’s longest-serving sheriff. That’s about to change in 2024
Joe Kovac Jr. reports that Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton Jr., the nation’s longest-serving sheriff, whose time in office spans the terms of eight governors and 10 U.S. presidents, said Wednesday that he will not seek re-election next fall. Talton, who is 91 years old and in his 13th term, cited his age as one factor in his decision to retire next year.
Sept. 21, 2023 CNHI News
Georgia lawmakers want to allow rent control in cities, counties
Asia Ashley reports, several Georgia lawmakers are hoping to push through legislation allowing local governments to implement rent control. According to a July 2022 report from Rent.com, the average cost of a one-bedroom apartment in Atlanta increased 9% over the previous year, with an average monthly rent of $1,993.
Sept. 21, 2023The Center Square
Continetti says Georgia could be ‘most important state’ in 2024
T.A. DeFeo reports that Georgia is likely “the most important state in American politics” heading into the 2024 election, a leading intellectual historian said. Matthew Continetti, and author and the director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke exclusively with The Center Square following his remarks to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Georgia Freedom Series luncheon last week.
Sept. 21, 2023 Capitol Beat News
Georgia manufacturers defend tax incentives
Dave Williams reports that Georgia manufacturing executives and a local economic developer defended the state’s tax incentives Wednesday to a legislative committee formed to determine whether Georgians are getting a healthy return on the revenue lost to tax credits and exemptions.
Sept. 21, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Jolt: Herschel Walker’s Atlanta home hits the real estate market
Adam Van Brimmer, Greg Bluestein, Patricia Murphy and Tia Mitchell report, is Herschel Walker punting on Georgia? Less than a year after he lost a scandal-plagued run for the U.S. Senate, the house owned by his wife Julie Blanchard is listed for sale on real estate sites for $1.45 million.
