Georgia Trend Daily – Nov. 8, 2024
Nov. 8, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
Flash floods sweep through Valdosta, prompting school closures and transportation warnings
Caison Kirkland reports, heavy rains triggered flash flooding across Valdosta and surrounding areas early Thursday morning, leading to school closures and disrupted travel on major roads. Valdosta City Schools canceled classes for the day, citing unsafe conditions for transporting students, while Lowndes County Schools remained open with adjusted transportation routes.
Nov. 8, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Minimizing Waste While Feeding the Hungry
Kathleen Conway reports, during this Thanksgiving season, as many of us focus on counting our blessings and feeling gratitude, several organizations are working to help raise money and donations for the 44 million Americans, including 13 million children, who are food insecure. Here in Georgia, 1 in 8 people are experiencing hunger.
Nov. 8, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta broadcast news company to lay off more than 100 workers
Savannah Sicurella reports that Atlanta-headquartered media company Scripps News is slashing 118 jobs at its Buckhead outpost as part of a larger measure to reduce costs. Affected positions include anchors, editors and producers, among several others, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice sent to the state.
Nov. 8, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Lockheed Achieves Milestone in Unmanned Naval Aviation
Staff reports that Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy and General Atomics achieved a significant milestone in unmanned aviation this week with the first-ever live control flight demonstration of a drone using the Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS). The demonstration involved controlling a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger, a developmental unmanned combat aircraft with no human pilot, crew or passengers on board, using Lockheed Skunk Works’ Multi-Domain Combat System (MDCX) autonomy platform.
Nov. 8, 2024 11 Alive
Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut spells relief for small business owners
Joe Ripley reports, the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points has many small business owners hopeful for some much-needed relief. Among them is Clay Gridley, owner of Six Bridges Brewing, a craft beer company he runs with his father, Charles in Johns Creek.
Nov. 8, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Georgia lawmakers looking to promote emerging markets for timber
Dave Williams reports that the state should actively promote developing sustainable aviation fuel and mass timber construction as emerging markets for a struggling timber industry, a legislative study committee recommended on Thursday. While Georgia is the nation’s No. 1 state for forestry, the industry has been hit with shrinking demand for timber, resulting in an oversupply.
Nov. 8, 2024 Albany Herald
Downtown Dougherty County voting precinct holds historic place in civil rights movement
Alan Mauldin reports, for Robert Sibley, voting is a very important duty at any time. But when he cast his vote at the Shiloh Baptist Church precinct on Tuesday, it was even more special.
Nov. 8, 2024 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus residents have an easier path to owning their first home with this new program
Brittany McGee reports, buying a home is one of the most important purchases someone can make, and a down payment assistance program relaunched by the Columbus Consolidated Government’s Community Reinvestment Department aims to make it easier for first-time buyers in Muscogee County.
Nov. 8, 2024 WABE
Metro Atlanta voters to return to polls in December for six runoff elections
Kendall Murry reports, six election races throughout Atlanta, East Point and the counties of DeKalb and Gwinnett will be heading into runoff elections in December. The runoffs come after no candidate received 50% of the vote in their respective races during the Nov. 5 general election.
Nov. 8, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
What’s Next? Trump Victory Could Mean Greene Appointment
John Bailey reports, without question, 14th District Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been one of President-Elect Donald Trump’s most staunch supporters. While the Rome Republican has just been elected to her third term representing much of Northwest Georgia, she’s also in a prime spot to be rewarded for that loyalty through the appointment to a key position in the Trump administration.
Nov. 8, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgia’s record early voting, post-2020 stress tests helped to defuse election rules overhaul
Stanley Dunlap reports, Democrats and Republicans in Georgia and across the country have fought for four years in the courts and in Washington, D.C. over changes to election rules enacted by the state’s GOP Legislature following the election of Joe Biden in 2020. A controversial rule adopted in 2021 establishing a 25-foot zone prohibiting the distribution of bottled water and snacks to voters in line turned Georgia into a laughing stock on late night television.
Nov. 8, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Burt Jones considers Medicaid expansion as 2026 race for governor looms
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, as Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones charts a course toward an expected run for governor, he’s mulling a break with Gov. Brian Kemp on health care policy. The governor, midway through his second term, has firmly opposed expanding Medicaid throughout his tenure — and even told a room of hospital chiefs that the idea is off the table in 2025 and perhaps beyond.
