Georgia Trend Daily – Nov. 15, 2023
Nov. 15, 2023 Georgia.gov
Gov. Kemp: Toyota Industries Corporation Expands Georgia Presence, Creating 250 New Jobs
Staff reports that Gov. Kemp on Tuesday announced that Toyota Industries Electric Systems North America, Inc., (TIESNA) will create more than 250 new jobs while expanding the Toyota Industries Corporation (Toyota Industries) campus in Pendergrass with a new manufacturing facility valued at $69 million in investment.
Nov. 15, 2023 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Pride in the PSC
Brian Robinson writes, Tricia Pridemore talks about Georgia’s energy policy the way a grandmother talks about her grandchild or University of Georgia fans talk about their football team: It’s simply the best, and everyone else just needs to accept it.
Nov. 15, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feds offer relief to Georgia livestock producers hurt by drought
Drew Kann reports, facing bone dry pastures as drought persists in Georgia, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that livestock producers in 20 counties can now apply for financial assistance to cope with their mounting losses. With only scant rain falling across large portions of Georgia in the last two months, the latest U.S. Drought Monitor released last week shows that drought has deepened, particularly in the northwest and southwest corners of the state.
Nov. 15, 2023 Augusta Chronicle
Finalized $850 million deal to bring North America’s largest EV-parts plant to Augusta
Joe Hotchkiss reports, two global chemical companies have sealed an $850 million deal to build what one of the company’s billed as North America’s biggest factory producing electric vehicle materials in Augusta.
Nov. 15, 2023 Savannah Morning News
SEDA Workforce Report: By 2025, Savannah won’t have enough people to fill jobs
Joseph Schwartzburt reports, as the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) board meeting on Tuesday, President and CEO Trip Tollison delivered some sobering news: the supply of workers in Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham and Effingham counties is not sufficient to fill the estimated 15,000 jobs coming to the region by 2025.
Nov. 15, 2023 GEFA
Georgia communities receive infrastructure loans totaling $112.7 million
Staff reports that fourteen Georgia communities and The Nature Conservancy were awarded financing totaling $112,653,800 for water, sewer, wastewater, and land conservation projects by the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) board of directors.
Nov. 15, 2023 GPB
Some Georgia teachers will get extra help navigating the ‘Science of Reading’
Grant Blankenship reports that a collaboration between the Georgia Department of Education and the Atlanta-based Rollins Center for Language and Literacy will offer help to primary school teachers getting up to speed on new state reading standards.
Nov. 15, 2023 Gwinnett Daily Post
Gwinnett Chairwoman proposes $2.5 billion 2024 county budget
Curt Yeomans reports, Gwinnett County is planning to add 104 positions, offer pay for performance raises to employees, expand microtransit into northwest Gwinnett and address affordable housing among other things in Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson’s proposed $2.5 billion 2024 budget.
Nov. 15, 2023 State Affairs
How does voting by political party work in Georgia?
Jill Jordan Sieder reports that Georgia primary elections are open to all voters regardless of party affiliation. It’s an “open primary” state that doesn’t register voters by party. Every primary voter has three ballot choices: Democrat, Republican and Non-partisan (judges, constitutional questions, etc.).
Nov. 15, 2023 Capitol Beat News
Georgia lawmakers unveil recommendations for growing workforce
Dave Williams reports, establishing a statewide portal employers could use to help fill job openings is among the recommendations a legislative study committee looking for ways to grow Georgia’s workforce adopted Tuesday. After holding six hearings across the state, the state Senate’s Expanding Georgia’s Workforce Study Committee approved the final report it will send to the full Senate to consider during the 2024 General Assembly session beginning in January.
Nov. 15, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia’s 2024 GOP primary: Trump and 10 others make the March ballot
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report that the Republican presidential lineup is set in Georgia, though there are two candidates on the March 12 primary ballot who are no longer in the running. Georgia GOP chair Josh McKoon said state party officials unanimously voted to put 11 candidates on the ballot, including former President Donald Trump and his top rivals for the nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, the former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina governor.
