Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 28, 2024
Aug. 28, 2024 Augusta Chronicle
Forbes ranked America’s best employers by state. Here are the top companies in Georgia
Miguel Legoas reports that mre than 1,200 different organizations were included by Forbes on America’s Best-In-State Employers list. Which were the best in Georgia? Delta Air Lines holds the crown of best employer overall and is the only one of the top five that is based in Georgia.
Aug. 28, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Catching up with…Brian McGowan
Karen Kirkpatrick writes, before he became president of Centennial Yards, the redevelopment of downtown Atlanta’s Gulch – a 50-acre cluster of rail lines and parking lots, located some 40 feet below the surrounding streets – Brian McGowan served as CEO of the Atlanta BeltLine, COO of the Metro Atlanta Chamber and CEO of Invest Atlanta, among many other positions. These are edited highlights from an interview.
Aug. 28, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Where Georgia Power plans to install massive batteries next
Drew Kann reports that Georgia Power, the state’s largest utility, has revealed details about where it will install its next set of massive batteries, part of its plan to meeting a wave of electricity demand the company says is on the horizon. In a filing submitted last week to regulators at the Georgia Public Service Commission, the company disclosed that it will build 500 megawatts of new battery energy storage systems, also known as BESS, at four locations in the state.
Aug. 28, 2024 WSB TV, WSB Radio
22 acres of green space near Chattahoochee River to receive multi-million dollar upgrades
Staff reports that one of the parks that has long been a hidden jewel in the metro Atlanta area is about to get a multi-million dollar upgrade. Kim Menefee is the Executive Director of the Cumberland Community Improvement District. The organization helps lead the charge on what will be a more than $15 million effort to improve and renew 22 acres of green space near the river.
Aug. 28, 2024 WABE
Obamas, Airbnb CEO award public service scholarships to 5 college students from Georgia
Meimei Xu reports that five college juniors from Georgia received a public service scholarship created by the Obama Foundation and Airbnb Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky. Among the 100 recipients of the scholarship were Stanford University student Esther Ceballo Ortiz from Fayetteville; University of Alabama at Birmingham student Wajiha Mekki from Lawrenceville; Georgia State University Lucero Mendez from Snellville; Vanderbilt University student Samantha Mitike from Duluth; and Duke University student Henry Stephens IV from Grovetown.
Aug. 28, 2024 Savannah Morning News
New developments are on the rise in the northern end of Bryan County
Latrice Williams reports, there was a time when people moved to quiet and sleepy Pembroke, Ga. because they were seeking a small town where the daily pace was set by the railroad running through downtown. With several developments now coming online, townsfolk will have to adjust to a new normal. Pembroke City Council approved the rezoning and annexation of 227 acres for a proposed development of 2,000 homes Aug. 12.
Aug. 28, 2024 Georgia Trend – Excusive!
Tunnel to Towers Foundation
Candice Dyer reports that on 9/11, Brooklyn firefighter Stephen Siller was off duty but heard the World Trade Center was under attack. So he returned to Squad 1 to get his gear and then drove toward the Twin Towers. When he reached the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, it was closed, so he donned his gear and ran to the towers. He died when the towers fell, and his body was never recovered.
Aug. 28, 2024 GPB
Georgia Today: ‘Hidden homelessness;’ Third party candidates won’t be on Ga. ballot; Caitlin Clark
Peter Biello and Jake Cook report, on the Tuesday, Aug. 27 edition of Georgia Today: A group of nonprofits works to combat so-called “hidden homelessness;” a state judge rules to keep third party candidates off of Georgia’s presidential ballot; and WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark draws a record-breaking crowd to State Farm Arena.
Aug. 28, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Georgia educators rolling out literacy improvement steps
Dave Williams reports that the state Department of Education (DOE) laid the groundwork for the Georgia Early Literacy Act during the past school year. Now, it’s time to implement legislation the General Assembly passed last year aimed at improving the quality of early reading instruction, Amy Denty, the DOE’s literacy director, told members of the Georgia Council on Literacy Monday.
Aug. 28, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Top NCAA women swimmers tell Georgia lawmakers allowing trans athletes in their events is unfair
Ross Williams reports, how to keep transgender women out of sports competitions is once again the topic of discussion under Georgia’s Gold Dome as state senators convened a meeting of a new special committee on protecting women’s sports Tuesday. The hearing featured a group of college swimmers who say they were put at an unfair disadvantage by being made to compete against a transgender athlete.
Aug. 28, 2024 Saporta Report
With time short, South Georgia gets lots of love
Tom Baxter reports, this is interesting territory for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be traversing and a very interesting time to be doing it. A couple of weeks ago, Charles Hayslett suggested on his Trouble in God’s Country blog that with high school football ramping up, Walz might consider rounding up some of the members of the 1999 Mankato West team that won their state championship and doing a bus tour across South Georgia, possibly ending in Blackshear, home of Stetson Bennett and the current 2A state champion team.
Aug. 28, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia to be backdrop of Harris, Walz first sit-down interview
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adama Van Brimmer report, Georgia is more than the backdrop of the first joint campaign rally with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The two will also participate in their first joint sit-down interview while in the state this week.
