Georgia Trend Daily – Oct. 15, 2024
Oct. 15, 2024 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
These Columbus companies rank best in state, says Forbes. Did your employer make the list?
Sundi Rose reports, Forbes Magazine compiled a list of best places to work in the U.S. and Georgia was represented fairly well with three Columbus-based employers making the cut. Forbes enlisted the research firm, Statista to survey more than 16,000 workers employed at companies of 500 or more employees.
Oct. 15, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
The Challenge of Good Growth
Brian Robinson writes, toward the end of Fintan O’Toole’s book We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, the author tells the story of an Irish taoiseach (prime minister) marveling at the efficiency of China’s autocratic rule during a period when the Emerald Isle was experiencing boom economic times and a building frenzy.
Oct. 15, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Company pays off debts in ‘random acts of kindness’
Michael E. Kanell reports, in an act that shines a light on the widespread burden of debt, ForgiveCo purchased Sonia Wignall’s debt — along with the debt of about 8,800 others in metro Atlanta. Then ForgiveCo partnered with California-based financial services company Earnin to pay it all off.
Oct. 15, 2024 Augusta Chronicle
Here’s how Augusta area’s rural electric companies are reconnecting customers after Helene
Joe Hotchkiss reports, Murl Meyer and her husband, Ken, have been Jefferson Energy EMC customers for 45 years, so she’s been through her share of flickering power outages, lasting three or four days. Nothing compares to the devastation left by offshoot storms of Hurricane Helene, she said.
Oct. 15, 2024 Milledgeville Union-Recorder
Musk Starlinks helping restore vital connectivity in aftermath of Helene
Billy Hobbs reports that several Georgia counties stricken by Hurricane Helene more than two weeks ago are receiving help from Starlinks from Elon Musk, who developed the satellite internet network years ago. Many of the devastated counties east of Baldwin had their internet connectivity knocked out by the storm.
Oct. 15, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Power of ‘basic’: Low-cost solar system kept power on for Savannah couple after Helene
John Deem reports, Marc Thomas wants to make one thing clear before he begins discussing the array of 14 photovoltaic panels on the rear roof of his Savannah home. “This is not luxury solar power,” he stresses as butterflies flit between flowers in his pollinator-friendly backyard. “This is basic solar power, right?”
Oct. 15, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Floyd County Considers Recycling Partnerships
Rachel Hartdegan reports that paving projects are moving forward and Floyd County is also considering partnerships for glass and textile recycling programs. Committee members also discussed a potential partnership with Calhoun to recycle glass as well as another initiative aimed at recycling discarded clothes and shoes.
Oct. 15, 2024 The Current
Sapelo zoning vote heads to Georgia Supreme Court
Mary Landers reports that Gullah Geechee residents of Sapelo Island are taking their zoning concerns to the Georgia Supreme Court. Attorneys for Barbara Bailey, Christopher Bailey, and Stanley Walker last week filed a notice of appeal of the Sept. 25, 2024, order that stopped the already in-progress special election about a controversial zoning decision on Sapelo Island,
Oct. 15, 2024 Gwinnett Daily Post
Federal Lawmakers To EPA: Increase Oversight Over Plants Like BioLab
Curt Yeomans reports, a group of Democratic lawmakers from Georgia is demanding the federal government do more to regulate a pool cleaner chemicals that recently burned in a manufacturing plant fire which wrought havoc in Rockdale County and other parts of metro Atlanta. U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson — along with U.S. Reps. Lucy McBath, David Scott and Nikema Williams, and U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff — sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan this week to ask that his agency step up oversight of manufacturing facilities which produce of store Trichloroisocyanuric Acid.
Oct. 15, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgians head to polls to kick off election season early voting
Stanley Dunlap reports, voters in Georgia will return to the polls on Tuesday for the start of a three-week early voting period ahead of the Nov. 5 election that could help settle the presidential race showdown between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Several million Georgia voters are expected to cast ballots in an election featuring the presidential contest, Congressional races and all 236 seats in the state Legislature.
Oct. 15, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2 questions worry presidential campaigns as early voting begins in Georgia
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, today marks the start of Georgia’s three week in-person early voting period, the moment when all the campaigning and grassroots organizing is put to the test. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are pushing Georgians to lock in their votes long before Election Day, and polls show nearly two-thirds of likely voters are expected to do just that.
