Georgia Trend Daily – April 10, 2024
April 10, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
PrizePicks Extends Partnership as Official Daily Fantasy Sports Partner of the Atlanta Braves
Staff reports that PrizePicks, the largest daily fantasy sports operator in North America, announced that the company has reunited with the Atlanta Braves as the club’s Official Daily Fantasy Sports Partner for the 2024 season. The partnership extends a longstanding relationship that dates back to 2020.
April 10, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Family Tradition Unlike Any Other
Brian Robinson writes, after 40 years, few memories from second grade linger, but I’ll never forget the April morning when my dad showed up in the doorway of my classroom to take me to a round at the Masters Tournament. Though all our Robinson family lived in the Augusta area, we lived an hour east at the time in a little town where Dad was the Baptist preacher.
April 10, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Delta opens year with record first quarter revenue, $37 million profit
Kelly Yamanouchi reports that Delta Air Lines eked out $37 million in net income in the first quarter, reversing the losses it saw in the same period a year ago with the help of record first quarter revenue. The Atlanta-based airline’s profit comes after it reported a $363 million loss a year earlier, as it absorbed the costs of a new pilot contract.
April 10, 2024 WABE
Georgia launches new grant portal ahead of opioid settlement distribution
Jess Mador reports that Georgia has established a new trust for distributing the hundreds of millions of dollars headed to the state from the nationwide settlement with opioid drugmakers and distributors. Georgia’s overall share of the settlement is pegged at least $638 million over the next 18 years.
April 10, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
SGMC Health begins main campus redesign
Staff reports that SGMC Health announced Monday the implementation of Phase I of its long-range master facilities plan. An estimated $150 million investment, this initiative will bring about significant enhancements to the main campus in Valdosta and improve access to services, the health system said in a press release.
April 10, 2024 GPB
Georgia’s Vogtle plant could herald the beginning — or end — of a new nuclear era
Gautama Mehta reports that few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country.
April 10, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Athens-Clarke commission candidates addressed ‘sanctuary city’ resolution, housing, homelessness
Jim Thompson reports that at a Monday forum, candidates for the upcoming May 21 election for three contested seats on the Athens-Clarke County Commission faced what is becoming a persistent question from some quarters of the community. When the floor was opened to the audience of an estimated 100 people at a Federation of Neighborhoods forum, the first question was whether the candidates supported a 2019 resolution approved by the then-sitting commissioners and signed by Mayor Kelly Girtz.
April 10, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Will the Realtors Settlement Shake Up Cobb’s Housing Market?
Hunter Riggall reports, $25,440. That’s the typical commission Realtors collect on the sale of a $424,000 home, the median sales price in Cobb County. That payout, however, could soon change.
April 10, 2024 The Current
Coastal Georgia GOP officials call for state committee member to resign
Craig Nelson reports that Coastal Georgia Republican officials are urging a member of the state party’s executive committee, a prominent 2020 election denier, to step down from his post. Late last month, a state administrative judge ruled that conservative talk show host Brian Pritchard had broken state election laws by voting nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.
April 10, 2024 Dalton Daily Citizen
Greene tells audience why she wants to remove House speaker
Charles Oliver reports, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, on Monday laid out her case against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, to a capacity crowd at the Tunnel Hill Depot. She said she thinks Johnson’s leadership has been disastrous for Republicans.
April 10, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgia child welfare agency defensive after Ossoff Senate panel reports neglect and exploitation
Ross Williams reports that the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services consistently fails to protect children from abuse, and mismanagement at the division is “a key contributor” to child deaths and serious injuries, according to a U.S. Senate report released Tuesday. DFCS called the allegations “unfounded and irresponsible.”
April 10, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia elections ranking improves to No. 11 in MIT study
Mark Niesse reports that Georgia’s elections ranked No. 11 in the nation, scoring above average in turnout, registration and mail ballot rejections in the 2022 elections, according to the Elections Performance Index by the MIT Election Data & Science Lab. The new ranking is an improvement from Georgia’s position at No. 21 after the 2020 election and lower scores in prior years.
