Georgia Trend Daily – March 7, 2024
March 7, 2024 WSB Radio
2 metro Atlanta cities make Southern Living’s list of the South’s Best Cities on the Rise in 2024
Staff reports that two Georgia cities have made Southern Living’s list of the South’s Best Cities on the Rise in 2024. Southern Living put together a reader-selected list of southern cities with excellent food scenes, cool downtown districts, natural beauty, thriving arts communities and that southern charm that’s hard to define.
March 7, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
AI’s Broad Effect
Ben Young writes, this month’s issue features an excellent article by Phillipa Maister about artificial intelligence (AI). It’s amazing how quickly this technology has embedded itself into our daily lives. It has crept up a bit in the sense that we often don’t know when we are using it.
March 7, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Global real estate services firm tapped to redevelop Gwinnett Place mall
Zachary Hansen reports that Gwinnett County is partnering with the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm to tackle one its most challenging pieces of property: Gwinnett Place Mall. Gwinnett leadership announced Tuesday it brought on CBRE to help deliver the county’s promise to transform the area into a thriving community center — something the mall hasn’t provided in decades.
March 7, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
15 London Enterprise Tech Firms Consider Going Global Via Atlanta
Trevor Williams reports that Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has preached the power of sports to open doors for business, and it looks like the strategy is paying off when it comes to the city’s technology ties with London.The mayor’s enthusiasm helped persuade the U.K. capital’s business development agency to pick Atlanta for the first leg of this year’s Grow London Global series, designed to help promising firms open doors around the world.
March 7, 2024 The Brunswick News
Advocates, swamp lovers call for protection of Okefenokee
Michael Hall reports that the Okefenokee Swamp is too precious a natural resource to risk damaging by mining for commodity minerals near the borders of the National Wildlife Refuge, environmental advocates and swamp buffs told state regulators on Tuesday. Nearly 300 people attended a three-hour virtual public hearing hosted Tuesday evening by the state Environmental Protection Division.
March 7, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgia’s very good farm dogs get their day with state Department of Agriculture commendations
Ross Williams reports that two of Georgia’s goodest dogs had their day Wednesday in a special ceremony at the Georgia Department of Agriculture headquarters in downtown Atlanta where they were honored for acts of bravery and loyalty. Skippy, a mixed breed dog from McDuffie County, won this year’s American Farm Bureau Farm Dog of the Year Contest, and another Georgia dog, Casper, a Great Pyrenees from Decatur, took home the People’s Choice Pup Award.
March 7, 2024 Capitol Beat News
PSC elections postponed again by court case
Dave Williams reports that there will be no Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) elections this year because a lawsuit challenging the system the state uses to elect commissioners is still pending, the secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday. The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled last November that the five-member PSC may continue holding elections statewide rather than by district.
March 7, 2024 Fox 5 Atlanta
Georgia Senate considers reviving office to help bring down Georgia Power bills
Christopher King reports that Senate Bill 457 would restore the Consumers’ Utility Counsel, a lawyer who would represent customer interests at the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities. “This would be an advocate for the consumer in utility issues that would look out for just their interest,” said the bill’s sponsor, State Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, (R-Dist. 52).
March 7, 2024 Fresh Take Georgia
Georgia Senate targets American Library Association in new legislative push
Emma Buker reports that twenty-two Republican state senators from Georgia proposed a bill that would prohibit the use of Georgia’s tax dollars to purchase materials or fund operations and services provided by the American Library Association (ALA). Sen. Larry Walker, R-Perry, is chief sponsor of Senate Bill 390.
March 7, 2024 WABE
Georgia Republicans seek financial punishments for ‘sanctuary city’ policies
Emily Wu Pearson reports that a state Senate committee is seeking punishments for Georgia communities with so-called “sanctuary city” policies that protect undocumented immigrants. The committee on public safety approved a new version of HB301 on Wednesday to impose more financial punishments on jurisdictions the state considers a sanctuary city, although there’s no one standard definition of what a sanctuary city is.
March 7, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Prosecutor oversight bill gains final passage in General Assembly
Dave Williams reports that the Georgia House of Representatives gave final passage Tuesday to legislation letting a recently created oversight board for prosecutors set its own rules. The bill cleared the Republican-controlled House 97-73 primarily along party lines.
March 7, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: With Trump’s nomination assured, Georgia GOP leaders endorse him
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report that hours after former President Donald Trump dealt a knockout blow to Nikki Haley in the Super Tuesday elections, his power to bend the GOP to his will was on display in Georgia. It came in the form of a few paragraphs in Spanish from state Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John King, who opined that four more years of President Joe Biden “would threaten the survival of the American dream.
