Georgia Trend Daily – April 30, 2024
April 30, 2024 State Affairs
Global bird flu disrupts Georgia exports, costing chicken producers millions
Tammy Joyner reports that a global bird flu that has rapidly spread from birds to dairy cows, milk supplies and humans has cost untold millions of dollars in lost export business in Georgia, the nation’s leading poultry producer, officials with the state Department of Agriculture and poultry industry said. Georgia has had only three reported cases of H5N1 avian influenza since it reemerged in 2022.
April 30, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Going Global: For Georgia Businesses, International Markets are the New Normal
Jeffrey Beisler-Snell reports that Georgia has long been a destination for global business, with multinationals like Hyundai, KIA, Porsche, Nestle and Adidas maintaining significant presence in the state. According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), internationally owned companies invested more than $8 billion in the state in 2022, accounting for more than 14,000 jobs.
April 30, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia mom and infant projects awarded $6 million of federal grants
Samantha Hogan reports that patients were already being seen at a southwest Atlanta clinic by 10 a.m. Monday as federal officials headed upstairs to announce the health center will receive a grant for nearly $1 million this year to work on mothers’ and babies’ health. The federal funding awarded to Southside Medical Center will help support the community that used to be served by a Wellstar hospital in East Point, Atlanta Medical Center – South, which Wellstar shut down in 2022.
April 30, 2024 WABE
Near miss stories could offer clues in Georgia’s maternal mortality crisis
Jess Mador reports, seven years ago, Heather Dobbs was preparing for the birth of her second baby. She and her husband, who live in Covington, were thrilled to be welcoming another child into their family.
April 30, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Georgia Power completes Plant Vogtle nuclear project
Dave Williams reports, the second of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle has entered full commercial operation, Georgia Power officials announced Monday. Unit 4, which went online nine months after the completion of Unit 3 at the plant south of Augusta, can produce enough electricity to power an estimated 500,000 homes and businesses.
April 30, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Ambassador Visit Marks Chile Chamber’s Revival
Trevor Williams reports that Chile’s ambassador to the United States visited Atlanta to mark the revival of a long-dormant organization focused on drumming up business between the Southeast U.S. and the South American nation. Representatives from some of Chile’s largest companies joined a business roundtable with Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés and multiple Chilean government organizations at the Metro Atlanta Chamber April 23.
April 30, 2024 Saporta Report
Georgia Tech embraces artificial intelligence with new “digital sandbox” that will equip students with resources in the age of AI
Mark Lannaman reports that the Georgia Institute of Technology is embracing the age of artificial intelligence. Earlier this month, Georgia Tech unveiled its new AI Makerspace on campus, described as a “digital sandbox”, that aims to facilitate access to resources for students to become proficient in emerging tools and advance AI.
April 30, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Many ships off Georgia, Carolinas exceed whale-protection speed limits, data show
John Deem reports that nearly half of commercial container and bulk vessels operating off the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas – including ships using the ports of Savannah and Brunswick – are exceeding seasonal speed limits created to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
April 30, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Lockheed’s Marietta Plant Soaring Under McLean’s Leadership
Jake Busch reports, in aeronautics parlance, if Lockheed Martin’s Marietta site was already soaring to new heights when Rod McLean became the site’s general manager in 2019, it is pushing the limits of those heights and looking toward even greater ones five years into his tenure.
April 30, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Athens airport wants to pursue American Airlines, others as new service provider
Jim Thompson reports that Athens-Ben Epps Airport Director Mike Mathews wants to actively pursue American Airlines as a potential new provider of commercial passenger service at the facility, he told members of the airport authority at a recent meeting. Mathews’ comments at the authority’s March meeting came after a February trip by airport staff members to a conference designed to match passenger air carriers with interested airports and vice versa.
April 30, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
Candice Dyer reports that antisemitic incidents in the United States, including some in Georgia, surged by about 400% immediately after war broke out in the Middle East last fall, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, colloquially known as the Breman, works to combat antisemitism with education and awareness.
April 30, 2024 Albany Herald
Trio of challengers battles in House District 153 Democratic primary
Carlton Fletcher reports, with the added intrigue of an incumbent who considered not seeking a second term in office before relenting and throwing his hat back into the ring, a first-time candidate who’s still, at age 21, working to finalize his college degree, and a perennial candidate who decided to seek the office when the incumbent said he was not going to run, the state House District 153 Democratic primary race May 21 has become an interesting battle to watch.
April 30, 2024 Georgia Recorder
VP stops by Atlanta in latest courting of Georgia voters by Biden administration officials
Ross Williams reports that Vice President Kamala Harris came to Georgia Monday to kick off a nationwide tour promoting the White House’s record on economic issues and pledge to continue to support small businesses, particularly minority-owned ones. “None of us have achieved success without support. None of us,” she said during a panel discussion at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park.
April 30, 2024 11 Alive
Yes, Georgia’s new school bus law is the toughest in the nation
Doug Richards and Makayla Richards report, this week, Governor Brian Kemp signed Addy’s Law, a bill that quadruples Georgia’s minimum fines for motorists who illegally pass school buses. For generations, school buses have had a special place in state law.
April 30, 2024 Capitol Beat News
GOP congressional hopefuls seek to out-conservative each other
Dave Williams reports that five Republicans running for Georgia’s open 3rd Congressional District seat took turns touting their conservative credentials Sunday during a televised debate sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club. Former state Sens. Mike Crane and Mike Dugan, former state Rep. Philip Singleton, businessman Jim Bennett, and Brian Jack, who served as an aide in the Trump White House, are vying to succeed U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-West Point, who is not seeking reelection.
April 30, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Georgia ultraconservatives square off for leadership seats on RNC
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report, it’s hard to imagine Georgia GOP activists Ginger Howard and Jason Thompson painted as moderates. Howard was one of former President Donald Trump’s most prominent supporters in the last election and a longtime GOP activist. Thompson is a co-founder of the far-right Georgia Republican Assembly.
