Georgia Trend Daily – Oct. 30, 2024
Oct. 30, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
FEMA continues support for Georgians one month after Hurricane Helene
Staff reports, to date, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved more than $171 million in federal disaster assistance to more than 155,000 Georgia households to help them recover from Hurricane Helene. These funds are helping people pay for a temporary place to stay, home repairs and to replace their personal belongings, among other emergency needs, according to a press release from FEMA.
Oct. 30, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
This Accessible & Affordable MBA Boosts Soft Skills & Sharpens Your Professional Edge
Julia Roberts reports, how do you distinguish yourself from other candidates in today’s high demand, fast paced workforce? New research suggests understanding what employers value most may be the key to landing that coveted role.
Oct. 30, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Why people who broker office space are feeling more optimistic about Atlanta
Zachary Hansen reports, “The office is dead” quickly became a cliché phrase after the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the ability to work from home for scores of white collar workers. Now, nearly five years after the viral outbreak, real estate analysts and brokers say the modern office doesn’t just have a pulse — its heartrate is accelerating.
Oct. 30, 2024 GPB
Atlanta officials hold ribbon-cutting downtown for jail diversion resource center
Amanda Andrews reports, Atlanta community leaders and artists gathered downtown to cut the ribbon on the Center for Diversion and Services, which will provide resources to divert people from going to jail. The CDS is a collaboration between the city of Atlanta, Fulton County, Grady Health System, and several local groups.
Oct. 30, 2024 The Brunswick News
St. Marys waterfront under new ownership
Gordon Jackson reports, much of the downtown waterfront in St. Marys is under new ownership, or will be soon. Both companies acquiring the properties represent billionaire co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Mark Walter, CEO of investment firm Guggenheim Partners, which has more than $300 billion in assets.
Oct. 30, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Auld Alliance: Remaking History in the Mountains
Sucheta Rawal reports, dark velvet green curtains open up to the hostess stand, where a server dressed in a vest and leather holster escorts guests past a glass showcase filled with 10-day-aged picanha and ribeye steaks that were dry aged for 28 days and then soaked in premium Scotch whiskey for eight days, hinting to the huntsman traditions of France and Scotland.
Oct. 30, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Transit Tax Continues to Stump Some Early Voters
Jack Lindner reports that election Day is next Tuesday, and Cobb County voters face a historic decision over whether or not to approve a proposed transit tax. At the Cobb Elections main office in Marietta, six out of eight voters who spoke to the MDJ said they were caught by surprise seeing the M-SPLOST (Mobility Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) referendum at the bottom of the ballot.
Oct. 30, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Half of Georgia’s legislative races are uncontested. Experts say that’s bad for democracy
Maya Homan reports, as the 2024 election season hurtles toward the finish line, Georgia early voter turnout has shattered records, resulting in over 3 million residents casting their ballots during the state’s early voting period. Georgia voters play one of the most pivotal roles in determining the winner of this year’s presidential election.
Oct. 30, 2024 WABE
In a tight race, Trump’s complicated ties with Kemp could matter
Sam Gringlas reports, when former President Donald Trump campaigned in Georgia on Monday, one of the state’s most popular Republican politicians was absent – Gov. Brian Kemp. The former president’s relationship with the governor is complicated, and that could matter in a state Trump narrowly lost four years ago.
Oct. 30, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgians voting absentee urged by election officials to drop ballots off at county drop boxes
Stanley Dunlap reports that the political landscape has shifted greatly since the 2020 presidential election when a record number of Georgians voted absentee during the COVID-19 pandemic. Four years ago after Election Day, then-President Donald Trump and his Republican allies sparked a wildfire of conspiracy theories regarding absentee ballot voting fraud as the reason he lost the election to Joe Biden in Georgia by less than 12,000 votes.
Oct. 30, 2024 WSB Radio
More than 45% of Georgia voters have already cast ballots in lead up to 2024 election
Staff reports, close to half of Georgia’s registered voters have already cast their ballots and election day is still six days away. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and members of the Elections Division are expected to hold a morning briefing on voter turnout during early voting on Wednesday morning as the state continues to see record levels of voter turnout.
Oct. 30, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Report criticizes Georgia’s limited Medicaid expansion
Dave Williams reports that enrollment in Georgia’s year-old limited Medicaid expansion program is well below expectations because of a cumbersome enrollment process and restrictive eligibility criteria, an Atlanta-based public policy group reported Tuesday. Only 4,231 low-income Georgians were enrolled in the Georgia Pathways program as of the end of last month, well below the 25,000 the state Department of Community Health (DCH) had projected for its first year.
Oct. 30, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump supporters spar over ‘garbage’ remarks
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Georgia Democrats opened Tuesday by criticizing Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump. They ended it trying to fend off conservative accusations that President Joe Biden insulted Trump’s supporters.
