Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 19, 2024
Aug. 19, 2024 Dalton Daily Citizen, Canary Media
Long known as Carpet Capital, Dalton grows in solar output
Julian Spector reports, growing up in Cartersville, Georgia, Lisa Nash saw what happens to communities when factory jobs disappear. It was the 1980s and corporations were offshoring production to reduce costs and raise profits.
Georgia Trend, Lizann Grupalo
Aug. 19, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Advantage: Georgia
Patty Rasmussen reports, the bustling ports of Savannah and Brunswick, serving ships stacked high with brightly colored containers, are the face of Georgia’s global trade. And thanks to their East Coast location and highly touted efficiencies, the ports were able to serve their customers and handle overflow freight after a container ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the shipping channel of the Port of Baltimore in March.
Aug. 19, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta’s office market is resetting. That creates pain and opportunity
Zachary Hansen reports that as vacancy in metro Atlanta office buildings remains historically high, another foreboding metric is growing — distressed commercial loans. Nearly 19% of all commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS loans, backed by office properties are either delinquent or in default in metro Atlanta, according to data firm Trepp.
Aug. 19, 2024 GPB
17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations
Rebecca Rosman reports that more than 17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast are on strike after accusing company management of “unfair labor practices” during recent contract negotiations. The striking workers include technicians, customer service representatives, and AT&T wire installation workers.
Aug. 19, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Gas South Opens New Headquarters in the Battery
Jack Lindner reports, last week, Gas South unveiled the company’s new headquarters office in The Battery Atlanta. The office, located at 788 Circle 75 Parkway, spans two floors at The Battery Atlanta and is designed to embrace the company’s hybrid work model.
Aug. 19, 2024 The Brunswick News
JWSC accepts ownership of Liberty Harbor infrastructure
Taylor Cooper reports that the Brunswick Glynn County Joint Water and Sewer Commission agreed Thursday to take ownership of the water and sewer infrastructure in the planned Liberty Harbor development in Brunswick. Liberty Harbor was originally proposed in 2005 to be a “$2 billion, 155-acre luxury waterfront development” at the southern foot of the Sidney Lanier Bridge on the Brunswick River.
Aug. 19, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Hyundai wells will have minimal impact on water, Georgia officials tell Bulloch residents
John Deem reports, planned wells to serve Hyundai Motor Company’s electric vehicle manufacturing operation near Savannah will not risk an underground water source that Bulloch County homes and farms have relied on for decades, state environmental officials told a largely skeptical audience in the auditorium of a rural high school Tuesday. Up to 6.6 million gallons per day drawn from the Floridan Aquifer through four Bulloch wells would be sent to Bryan County to supply the Hyundai site and related development it is projected to attract to the area under permits proposed by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.
Aug. 19, 2024 New York Times
Statue of John Lewis Replaces a Confederate Memorial in Georgia
Amanda Holpuch reports, a statue of John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman, was installed on Friday in front of a Georgia county courthouse in a space occupied for more than 100 years by a Confederate memorial. The 12-foot-tall bronze statue was placed in front of the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Ga., which was part of the congressional district that Mr. Lewis represented for 17 consecutive terms.
Aug. 19, 2024 Augusta Chronicle, Augusta University
Understanding vascular disease goal of $11.3 million grant to MCG researchers
Jennifer Hilliard Scott reports that with a new $11.3 million Program Project grant from the National Institutes of Health, experts from the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University are working to better understand the underlying mechanisms of vascular disease.
Aug. 19, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
VSU students step into the fields to support farmworkers
Staff reports that Mackenzie Waters of Newnan, Georgia, recently joined an 18-person Valdosta State University team to support Emory University School of Medicine’s 2024 South Georgia Farmworker Health Project in Lowndes County. While medical teams from Emory University and Mercer University cared for the patients’ bodies, dealing with everything from diseases of the skin and eyes to musculoskeletal issues and high blood pressure, the student-therapists from VSU cared for their minds.
Aug. 19, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Georgia lawmakers looking to boost struggling timber industry
Dave Williams reports that Georgia’s forestry industry is a victim of its own success. Advanced genetics leading to fast-growing trees and a favorable climate have combined to make Georgia the No.-1 forestry state in the nation, a $42 billion industry responsible for 143,000 jobs.
Aug. 19, 2024 Georgia Recorder
With Georgia back in play, Dems hope convention builds momentum for Harris-Walz ticket
Jill Nolin and Ross Williams report, the Democratic Party is set to gavel in its national convention Monday in Chicago, and the Peach State will have a big presence. Georgia will provide 108 pledged delegates and another 15 automatic delegates, better known as superdelegates.
Aug. 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Trump’s ‘pit bulls’ on Georgia election board face new pressure
Mark Niesse and Greg Bluestein report, three right-wing Republicans behind a series of rules changes praised by former President Donald Trump face intensifying political pressure as the State Election Board considers new rules for ballot-counting and election certification at its Monday meeting. Georgia House Democrats sent an urgent appeal Monday to House Speaker Jon Burns to remove his appointee to the board.
