Georgia Trend Daily – Dec. 23, 2024
Dec. 24, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Two Key Korean Projects in Georgia Gain Combined $1.5B in Federal Funding
Trevor Williams reports, the outgoing Biden administration has finalized funding for two Korean-invested companies that will pump more than $1.5 billion in federal money into Georgia and advance two projects poised to employ thousands in the state. Absolics, which makes glass substrates for semiconductors, has taken delivery of $75 million award from the Commerce Department under the CHIPS and Scientific Act, a more than $50 billion law focused on driving American semiconductor production.
Dec. 24, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Dining Options in Serenbe
Sucheta Rawal reports, we all have our preferred neighborhood restaurants where we go to comfort our cravings. But if you’re seeking a variety of culinary options in a beautiful setting, you may want to head to the biophilic wellness community of Serenbe, about 35 miles southwest of Atlanta.
Dec. 24, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What is Project Nexus, the Atlanta development in line for a $23M tax break?
Zachary Hansen reports, the Fulton County authority preliminarily approved a hefty tax break for one of the largest projects in Atlanta’s Southside, one that promises to transform a distressed property near Greenbriar Mall into shops, a grocery store and thousands of apartments. But where exactly is this more than half-billion-dollar project, and who is developing it?
Dec. 24, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
Valdosta housing project gets $1 million grant
Terry Richards reports that an apartment complex in Valdosta will get $1 million to build family rental units. Harvest Station II will use the grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank to build 80 multi-family units, a statement the FHLBannk said.
Dec. 24, 2024 Rough Draft – Atlanta
Georgia ranks first for HIV cases in the country, according to new report
Katie Burkholder reports that new research has revealed that Georgia is the number one state in the country for reported HIV cases. The study, compiled from CDC data by Universal Drugstore, found that Georgia’s HIV rate is 23.1 reported cases per 100,000 residents, the highest in the country – followed by Louisiana at 18.2 cases per 100,000 and Nevada at 17.7 – and more than double the national average of 11.8.
Dec. 24, 2024 11 Alive
Lawyer representing Georgians with commuted sentences talks Biden’s announcement, impact
Karys Belger reports, in a historic move during his final weeks in office, President Joe Biden announced Monday the commutation of 37 federal death row inmates’ sentences — replacing them with life sentences without the possibility of parole. Among them are two men from Georgia: Meier Jason Brown and Anthony George Battle.
Dec. 24, 2024 Milledgeville Union-Recorder
Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion expands hours for holidays
Staff reports that Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion will be open three additional days this season to offer residents throughout Georgia more time to enjoy the annual holiday display at the historic site. The additional days that the mansion will be open for tours through the end of the year are: Friday, Dec. 27 and Monday, Dec. 30.
Dec. 24, 2024 State Affairs
Prison study committee releases recommendations
Tammy Joyner reports, a Senate study committee looking into ways to improve conditions at state prisons adopted its final report Friday. The Department of Corrections Facilities Senate Study Committee, chaired by Majority Whip Sen. Randy Robertson, R-Cataula, spent four months exploring strategies to improve the well-being of employees in the Department of Corrections and the over 50,000 prisoners in custody.
Dec. 24, 2024 Fox 5 Atlanta
Georgia tax credit offers lifeline to teens aging out of foster care
Eric Mock reports that the deadline is fast approaching for you to make your state tax dollars a Christmas gift to help teens who are preparing to age out of foster care at 18. The Fostering Success Tax Credit directly supports transitional programs run by foster care agencies like Wellroot, helping foster kids successfully transition into adulthood. But, you only have until Dec. 31 to apply.
Dec. 24, 2024 GPB
Congress passes Helene relief funding and economic assistance for farmers
Sarah Kallis reports that the U.S. Congress has passed billions of dollars of funding for Hurricane Helene relief in the federal spending bill. The package which passed Saturday includes $21 billion for agricultural disaster relief, as well as an additional $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers in states impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Dec. 24, 2024 Capitol Beat News
2024: Trump turns the tables on Georgia Democrats
Dave Williams reports, politics dominated 2024 in Georgia, a presidential election year that saw former President Donald Trump turn the tables on Democrats in the Peach State. But Republican Trump’s victory four years after President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to capture Georgia’s 16 electoral votes since 1992 was far from the only political news to reverberate under the Gold Dome.
Dec. 24, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Inside the ‘big deal’ battle for Georgia’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid contract
Greg Bluestein reports, an all-out battle for one of Georgia’s most lucrative public contracts is underway as a group of insurers competes for the multibillion-dollar award from Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration to manage health care for roughly 2 million state Medicaid patients. The Department of Community Health earlier this month granted new contracts to four insurers who spent more than a year jostling for the business, and shut out two others — Amerigroup and Peach State Health Plan — that had long managed Medicaid care in Georgia.
