Georgia Trend Daily – Nov. 17, 2023
Nov. 17, 2023 Marietta Daily Journal
MLB All-Star Game Coming to Truist Park in 2025
Staff reports, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Cobb County’s Truist Park will host the MLB All-Star Game in 2025. The 95th Midsummer Classic will be the first played at Truist Park and the third in Atlanta.
Nov. 17, 2023 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Economy: Columbus Advantage
Jeff Humphrey reports, recent economic development successes have Columbus poised to outperform the state and the nation in 2024. Earlier this year, Pratt & Whitney announced the expansion of its operations in Columbus, which will create about 400 jobs.
Nov. 17, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia sheds jobs in October, but many sectors still strong
Michael E. Kanell reports that Georgia’s hiring machine slipped a gear last month, as the economy lost 1,100 jobs despite strong growth in many sectors, the state Department of Labor said Thursday. After many months of fighting through the headwinds of higher interest rates, at least some of the state’s employers pulled back during the month, leaving Georgia with its first monthly job loss since October of last year.
Nov. 17, 2023 Dalton Daily Citizen
Livestock producers in Whitfield, Murray counties eligible for drought recovery assistance
Staff reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) is now accepting applications in eligible counties for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) to provide financial assistance to eligible livestock producers for 2023 grazing losses due to a qualifying drought. The deadline to apply is Jan. 30, 2024.
Nov. 17, 2023 Savannah Morning News
Grant aims to plug underserved Black communities into electric transportation
John Deem reports, upfront cost continues to be a roadblock in Georgia’s shift to electric vehicles. With a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant, a trio of advocacy groups aims to ensure that underserved Black communities in Atlanta, Savannah and Albany plug into available federal funds to support “equitable, accessible, electric mobility initiatives.”
Nov. 17, 2023 Capitol Beat News
State grants controversial coal ash closure permit
Dave Williams reports, the state has issued a permit to Georgia Power for a coal ash pond closure plan at Plant Hammond critics say violates a federal rule against leaving ash in contact with groundwater. The closure of Ash Pond 3 at the plant near Rome is in conjunction with the Atlanta-based utility’s plan to to close all 29 of its coal ash ponds.
Nov. 17, 2023 Rough Draft – Atlanta
Metro Atlanta Chamber unveils new brand to attract and retain talent in the region
Staff reports that hundreds of metro Atlanta’s business and civic leaders gathered this week for the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s 164th annual meeting, an event that showcased the region’s 2023 business community’s impact across three strategic imperatives – economy, talent and community.
Nov. 17, 2023 Rome News-Tribune
Braves Farm Team Rebrands as Rome Emperors
Alex Farrer reports that Rome’s minor league baseball team unveiled its new name, logo and branding Thursday night. The club will be known as the Emperors after spending the first 20 seasons as the Braves.
Nov. 17, 2023 Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Awarded $1.5M to Build People-Centric Network for National Research Database
Staff reports that open access to research data and information will be key to spur the next wave of solutions to the world’s most complex problems. With that in mind, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is creating the first-ever prototype open knowledge network. With an award of $1.5 million, a Georgia Tech team will design a layer of the network known as a knowledge graph – a tool that facilitates data and knowledge sharing using nodes and edges and is similar to a social network.
Nov. 17, 2023 Griffin Daily News
Green named president of Gordon State College
Staff reports that the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia named Donald J. Green president of Gordon State College, effective Wednesday. Green currently serves as Gordon State’s interim president.
Nov. 17, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia House Republicans looking at full Medicaid expansion
Ariel Hart reports that for the first time in a decade, high-ranking Georgia GOP legislators on Thursday convened a meeting to hear testimony on full Medicaid expansion to all the state’s poor people. At the hearing Thursday, the idea was floated over whether to expand Medicaid in exchange for a political deal to roll back regulations that restrict who can open a new health care business, called Certificate of Need, or CON.
