Georgia Trend Daily – May 14, 2024
May 14, 2024 GPB
Atlanta ranks No.1 city for starting a career, according to consumer metrics
Staff reports that consumer website WalletHub compared 182 cities based upon professional opportunities and quality of life to determine ranks for its list of the Best and Worst Places for Starting a Career. Atlanta ranked No. 1, with Augusta, Ga. obtaining the No. 128 spot and Columbus, Ga. coming in at 130.
May 14, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Making the Grade
Tom Oder reports, the MBA programs at Georgia’s public and private business schools are doing an impressive job of keeping up with the times. Companies are rethinking how they work and who they hire, as advanced technology drastically changes how businesses operate.
May 14, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Owner of Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer announces $130M Georgia project
Zachary Hansen reports, a high-end clothing company that owns many well-known brands will relocate and expand its South Georgia distribution operations. Atlanta-based Oxford Industries Inc., which owns several retail brands including Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Johnny Was, announced Friday it will build an $130 million distribution facility in Lyons, which is roughly 185 miles southeast of Atlanta.
May 14, 2024 Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College Awarded $700K in Grants
Staff reports, in less than a year, Georgia Gwinnett College has received three grants totaling $700,000 from the National Science Foundation. All three grants will help address specific needs in the information technology field.
May 14, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Federal highway chief praises Port of Savannah projects to reduce truck pollution
John Deem reports, on a stormy Friday morning, the head of the Federal Highway Administration stood near a conference room window at the Georgia Port Authority’s headquarters in Garden City. As Shailen Bhatt described how more than $15 million in newly announced grants from his agency are aimed at improving air quality at and around the Port of Savannah, hundreds of drivers guided trucks through the rain in a carefully choreographed dance that resembled chaos at first glance.
May 14, 2024 Saporta Report
Cherry Street Energy opens new office with solar school
Mark Lannaman reports, Cherry Street Energy opened their new office building, and with it, a “Solar School” earlier this month. With a growing team, along with big contracts like City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Emory, Savannah and Chatham County, the company decided it was time to move into a space that reflected that growth.
May 14, 2024 Rough Draft Atlanta
Portman’s Amsterdam Walk development proposal met with opposition over light rail stance
Dyana Bagby reports that some Virginia-Highland and Morningside residents want to see Amsterdam Walk redeveloped. But they say they won’t support Portman Holdings’ proposal to do so because the developer is against light rail on the Atlanta Beltline.
May 14, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Proposed Rome Ordinance Requires Licensing for Gaming Machines
John Bailey reports that owners of gaming machines, colloquially referred to as ding ding machines, would have a year to comply with a proposed Rome ordinance partially regulating the businesses that operate them. The ordinance would apply to all locations in the city that have Georgia Lottery regulated Class B coin operated amusement machines, COAMs for short.
May 14, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against Cobb Schools
Annie Mayne reports that the Cobb County School District is the target of an official complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, stating that the district has practiced “discriminatory censorship” in its book-banning practices. The National Women’s Law Center filed the complaint Monday, stating that Cobb, alongside a Florida public school district, has targeted reading materials that pertain to and are written by racial and LGBTQ+ minorities.
May 14, 2024 Macon Telegraph
Georgia politicians throw support behind bill to help first responders buy first home
Kelby Hutchison reports that Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. visited Columbus Monday afternoon to show support for the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act. The HELPER Act, if passed, would seek to help first responders and teachers who are first-time homebuyers, according to the bill.
May 14, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Outgoing DeKalb County CEO talks about what’s next
Natalie Mendenhall reports that the outgoing DeKalb County CEO shed light on his plans after leaving office. Michael Thurmond has said in the past that he doesn’t believe his political career will end in DeKalb. For now, Thurmond — who is term-limited — wants to concentrate on the job he has.
