Georgia Trend Daily – July 22, 2024
July 22, 2024 Georgia Ports Authority
Georgia Ports welcomes MANA Nutrition’s new food processing facility
Staff reports that MANA Nutrition leaders and employees hosted a groundbreaking ceremony July 17, 2024, to commemorate an important new addition to the company’s supply chain. The 320,000 square-foot warehouse in Pooler, Ga., is four miles from the Port of Savannah and will enable the company to double its current production while adding new storage capacity.
July 22, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Like Money in the Bank
K.K. Snyder reports, across Georgia, some 200 community banks work every day to serve their depositors with tasks as simple as opening a savings account for a child and as complex as financing a multimillion-dollar project. Not only do customers benefit but so do shareholders, who last year earned almost 14% on their investments in Georgia’s community banks.
July 22, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hyundai starts huge EV hiring push, testing Savannah’s labor supply
Adam Van Brimmer reports, Lorelei Neighbors first learned about the Hyundai electric vehicle factory planned for Georgia while moving from Colorado to Savannah in January 2023. Driving east along I-16, she passed the then-barren 3,000-acre plant site.
July 22, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Athens officials look to use ARPA funds for workforce initiatives, ‘impact businesses’, more
Jim Thompson reports, Athens-Clarke County commissioners recently were briefed on a draft proposal calling for a $1.2 million outlay of federal dollars for local economic development programming. The Business Development and Workforce Support Task Force, co-chaired by Commissioners Carol Myers and Tiffany Taylor, is proposing to use the funding for seven initiatives.
July 22, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Cave Spring to Hold Solar Farm Q&A on Monday
Diane Wagner reports that the Cave Spring City Council will hold a special called meeting Monday, primarily to hear from a Georgia Power Co. representative about solar farms. Connecticut-based TRC would have a 25-year lease on the property and representatives have been talking to the council about the site plan, technology, access road, erosion control, buffer, grading, and the extension of the project.
July 22, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Feds tell state to review impact of Hyundai wells on protected fish
John Deem reports, add endangered fish to the list of concerns about wells that would supply up to 6.6 million gallons of water per day for Hyundai Motor Company’s electric vehicle and battery manufacturing complex in Bryan County. In a March 8 letter, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries division directed the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to consider the impact of withdrawals from the Floridan Aquifer on two species of federally protected sturgeon.
July 22, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Governor Kemp’s Next International Mission: Italy
Trevor Williams reports that the country’s prime minister may be named Giorgia, but that’s not the reason Brian Kemp is headed to Italy next week. The Georgia governor will lead a weeklong mission to the country to thank existing Italian investors and uncover “new partnerships,” his office announced Friday.
July 22, 2024 The Brunswick News
Gold Star education bill introduced
Gordon Jackson reports, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, has introduced a bipartisan bill to support the families of fallen service members. Ossoff joined Sens. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota and Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota., in introducing the Gold Star Children Education Act to support the eduction of children after the loss of a parent who has served.
July 22, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Public Service Commission to take up plan to add new fossil fuels to energy mix
Dave Williams reports that Georgia energy regulators already have approved a request by Georgia Power for a significant increase in electrical generating capacity to meet the needs of a growing state. But the state Public Service Commission (PSC) still must sign off on a key component of the Atlanta-based utility’s plan: a proposal to build three new “dual-fuel” turbines at Plant Yates near Newnan.
July 22, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Georgia political figures, voting rights groups rally around Vice President Kamala Harris
Maya Homan reports, the aftermath of President Joe Biden announcing that he will seek a second term, speculation about who might replace the president on the head of the ticket quickly began to circulate. In Georgia, a crucial swing state that Biden barely won in 2020, securing a 49.47% plurality of the vote over Trump’s 49.24%, all eyes are now on Vice President Kamala Harris, who is expected to take over the ticket.
July 22, 2024 Georgia Recorder, WABE
Government watchdog sues Georgia election board charging GOP faction violated meeting laws
Stanley Dunlap reports that a government watchdog organization is accusing the Georgia State Election Board of violating the Georgia Open Meetings Act by holding a meeting on short notice to advance election rule changes ahead of the Nov. 5 election. American Oversight filed a lawsuit Friday in Fulton County Superior Court accusing conservative appointed election board members Rick Jeffares, Janice Johnston, and Janelle King of failing to provide timely public notice for a July 12 meeting, not having enough board members present to conduct business and violating several other the board’s rules.
July 22, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
EXCLUSIVE: New AJC poll finds Trump leads Harris in Georgia matchup
Michelle Baruchman, Tia Mitchell and Greg Bluestein report, former President Donald Trump holds a slight lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Sunday, just hours after President Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign. The poll of likely Georgia voters, which was conducted before Biden dropped out of the contest and endorsed his vice president, shows Trump leading Harris 51% to 46% in a head-to-head matchup, just outside the margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
