Georgia Trend Daily – April 11, 2024
April 11, 2024 Albany Herald
Department of Transportation announces project awards
Staff reports that the Georgia Department of Transportation awarded a total of 10 projects in February 2024, including resurfacing, safety, and bridge construction and reconstruction. The largest single investment, valued at approximately $64 million, is allocated to a reconstruction project covering 3.732 miles of widening on U.S. Highway 76/State Route 515/SR 2 from east of Earl Shelton Road to Sampson Road.
April 11, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
More than an Election Year Problem
Tharon Johnson writes, for decades, “solving the immigration crisis” has been a top priority for both Democrats and Republicans and yet here we are in 2024, still trying to figure out the solution. The conversation is most heated in presidential election years when Republican rhetoric uses xenophobic language like “invasion,” and “anchor babies.”
April 11, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia ranked as most at risk from Wall Street investment in housing
Matt Reynolds reports that the Peach State is no stranger to institutional investment in housing, with many arguing it narrows the playing field for low- and middle-income buyers and makes the American dream of home ownership more difficult. It was an issue brought into stark relief in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s investigative series, “American Dream for Rent,” which called Greater Atlanta “ground zero” for corporate investment in housing.
April 11, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Georgia’s Danish Honorary Consul Sees Knighthood Upgraded
Trevor Williams reports that a Danish knight from Macon, Ga., has risen to a new station in the eyes of the Scandinavian nation’s monarchy. Christopher N. Smith, an attorney who has long served as the nation’s honorary consul in Georgia, received an upgrade to his knighthood in a luncheon ceremony last month at the Danish embassy in Washington.
April 11, 2024 GPB
Georgia launches website: Here’s how to apply for funds from Purdue Pharma’s opioid settlement
Ellen Eldridge reports that the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities launched a website Monday with information about how to apply for grants related to the state’s $638 million opioid settlement dollars. These national settlements have now been finalized and payments have already begun in Georgia, DBHDD Commissioner Kevin Tanner said Monday, April 8.
April 11, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Kennesaw Sells Naming Rights to $6 Million Depot Park Amphitheater
Annie Mayne reports that Kennesaw has sold the naming rights to its incoming $6 million amphitheater in downtown’s Depot Park. The City Council voted Monday to grant naming rights of the stage to Piedmont Bank for a three-year period at $75,000.
April 11, 2024 Albany Herald
Revitalizing Desoto: Small Sumter County community undergoing historic makeover
Carlton Fletcher reports, thanks to a landmark program brought to the community and championed by two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, DeSoto is in the early stages of becoming a showcase city that could dramatically impact the greening of the country and also open politicians’ and policymakers’ eyes to the reality that the salt-of-the-earth citizens of smalltown and rural America do indeed matter.
April 11, 2024 Gwinnett Daily Post
‘Knowledge Community’ Development in Eastern Gwinnett Expanding Its Reach. What We Know
Curt Yeomans reports, officials working on the Rowen “knowledge community” development in eastern Gwinnett will be working with educators at three local colleges and universities to establish “living laboratories” at the nearly 2,000 acre site. Rowen announced the agreements with the University of Georgia, Georgia Gwinnett College and Gwinnett Technical College to address workforce needs in critical industries and work on Georgia’s e-mobility network.
April 11, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
‘Bad Faith’: Cobb County and its Cities at Odds Over Service Agreement
Annie Mayne reports that Cobb County and six of its cities have less than six months to reach an agreement about the value of provided services, including fire, police and water. But after nearly two years of discussion, the unprecedented zero dollar proposal from the county has pushed the cities to seek legal representation to find a middle ground before time runs out.
April 11, 2024 Rough Draft – Atlanta
Atlanta school board member Eshé Collins launches bid for city council seat in November special election
Dyana Bagby reports, Atlanta school board member Eshé Collins is running in the Nov. 5 special election to fill a vacant seat on the Atlanta City Council. Collins launched her campaign for city council shortly after Keisha Sean Waites resigned last month as the Post 3 At-Large representative.
April 11, 2024 The Brunswick News
Attorney General urges collaboration in fight against gangs
Michael Hall reports that Glynn County is home to its fair share of gang violence, but it is not alone in that distinction, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Wednesday. “Gang activity is not an issue that’s specific to Brunswick, Glynn County or Southeast Georgia,” he said following a meeting of the Georgia Anti-Gang Network on Wednesday at the Brunswick Library.
April 11, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Education, healthcare, criminal justice: Explore where your state taxes are going in 2025
Maya Homan reports, Georgia lawmakers have many responsibilities when they assemble beneath the state’s gold dome each year for the legislative session, but none are more important than passing the state’s budget. The budget, dubbed House Bill 916, allocates funding for all state departments, programs and employees from July 1 to June 30, 2025, and totaled $36.1 billion this year.
April 11, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Trump touts former aide’s U.S. House candidacy during Atlanta visit
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report, throughout former President Donald Trump’s whirlwind campaign trip to Atlanta on Wednesday, from the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport tarmac to a Chick-fil-A to the St. Regis in Buckhead, there was a constant presence by his side: Brian Jack. The former aide turned U.S. House candidate was the only person to greet Trump as he arrived in Atlanta and joined the former president as he delivered impromptu remarks to reporters.
