Georgia Trend Daily – June 19, 2024
June 19, 2024 Georgia.org
Gov Kemp: Food Solutions Company Cargill to Create 400 New Jobs in Metro Atlanta Office Hub
Staff reports, on Thursday, Gov. Kemp announced that Cargill, a global food and agriculture leader, will establish a new office hub in the City of Atlanta, creating more than 400 new jobs in the metro area. Cargill’s Digital, Technology and Data (DT&D) organization will be the initial primary occupant of the Atlanta hub.
June 19, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
All-natural Wine: Alpharetta’s Fermented Wine Boutique Raises The Bar
Sucheta Rawal reports, have you dealt with stained teeth or hangovers after drinking wine? Wine is meant to be a natural product that should not cause stains or headaches, but the commercialization of winemaking has brought with itself, frequent side effects.
June 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia PSC to allow arguments in railroad eminent domain case
Drew Kann reports, state utility regulators will hear new oral arguments about a powerful railroad’s plan to force property owners in one of Georgia’s poorest counties to sell portions of their land so a new rail spur to serve private businesses can be built. In a 4-0 vote, members of the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) granted the parties involved approval to present their cases before the full commission.
June 19, 2024 LaGrange Daily News
Sauce company to bring 267 jobs to new LaGrange facility
Staff reports, on Friday, the Georgia Department of Economic Development announced that Lee Kum Kee Sauce Group, a global name in Asian sauces and condiments, will invest up to $288 million in a new manufacturing facility in LaGrange, creating up to 267 jobs in Troup County over the next several years. The facility will produce Asian sauces and condiments to support the company’s future growth in the Americas.
June 19, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Hyundai IONIQ 5, Kia models to be produced at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America
Latrice Williams reports that Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America announced Tuesday the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 will be the first vehicle manufactured at its EV plant in Black Creek. Hyundai, Genesis and Kia vehicles will also be produced at the factory.
June 19, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Black Georgia veterans take ‘Honor Flight’ to D.C. in Juneteenth celebration of their service
Kate Verity reports, this Juneteeth, retired U.S. Air Force Captain Marian Dee Elder and 25 of her fellow Black veterans will board a plane in Atlanta and fly to Washington D.C. There, this group will spend the day visiting various commemorative sites.
June 19, 2024 Augusta Chronicle
Russell Keen announced as new president of Augusta University in email to faculty
Joe Hotchkiss reports that Augusta University’s executive vice president for administration will become the school’s new president starting July 1. Dr. Russell Keen’s appointment follows an announcement in September by AU President Brooks A. Keel that he would retire after the 2023-24 academic year, capping a 40-year education career.
June 19, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
The Home Depot Foundation Awards $235K to Habitat Affiliate in Smyrna
Staff reports that Smyrna-based Habitat for Humanity of NW Metro Atlanta announced The Home Depot Foundation has awarded the affiliate a $235,000 grant to provide 11 critical home repairs for veterans in Cobb, Douglas, and Paulding counties. “The Home Depot Foundation’s commitment to honor veterans allows them to have better health and safety outcomes, and to live safely and age in place with dignity in the homes they know and love,” said Jessica Gill, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of NW Metro Atlanta.
June 19, 2024 Capitol Beat News
State awards grants to 13 rural hospitals
Dave Williams reports that thirteen hospitals in rural Georgia will receive $6 million in grants through a state program that will give them a choice of how to use the money. The Georgia Department of Community Health’s Dual Track Rural Hospital Support program gives grant recipients the option of choosing between funding new or existing graduate medical education programs or providing direct hospital support.
June 19, 2024 WSB TV, WSB Radio
Emory Healthcare giving out more than $100 million in raises to employees this year
Staff reports that Emory Healthcare is giving workers more than $100 million in total raises this year. Officials confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that those getting raises include nurses respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, radiology technicians, and food/nutrition and environmental services team members.
June 19, 2024 The Brunswick News
Tropical disturbance marks early start for hurricane season
Michael Hall reports that a tropical disturbance brewing off of Georgia’s coast has caught the attention of the National Weather Service and local emergency response managers, but it is too early to predict its impacts for the Golden Isles. The early tropical system is described by the weather service as “an area of cloudiness and thunderstorms located several hundred miles east of the Bahamas (that) is associated with a surface trough and an upper-level area of low pressure.”
June 19, 2024 GPB
Atlanta City Council approves $7.5 million water main break relief fund for businesses
Amanda Andrews reports that Atlanta City Council unanimously passed a measure Monday creating a financial relief fund for small businesses affected by the water main breaks earlier this month. The water main breaks left nearly half of Atlanta under a boil water advisory from May 31 to June 6.
June 19, 2024 GPB
Georgia Senate study committees to look at firearm safety, AI, correction facilities, more
Ambria Burton reports that the 2024 Georgia General Assembly Senate Study Committees are in session starting this week. Study committees, like bills, are proposed during the legislative session but as resolutions the sponsor believes need further examining during the offseason.
June 19, 2024 State Affairs
Some familiar faces fare well in runoff election; slate set for November
Tammy Joyner reports that Republican incumbent Rep. Steven Sainz secured his chance to hold onto his coastal Georgia seat in Tuesday’s runoff elections. A retired Army general will face firebrand Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and two Georgians with ties to the Trump administration cemented their bids for Congress.
June 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Postal Service woes are years in the making, Georgia lawmakers seek fix
Kelly Yamanouchi reports that many Atlantans have grown frustrated with lengthy delays in delivery of mail and packages from the post office — and it’s a problem that rapidly worsened earlier this year amid an attempt to reform the U.S. Postal Service’s complex and troubled system. Georgia has been ground zero for some of the worst issues.
