Georgia Trend Daily – May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024 WABE
Georgia workers train months for EV charging industry, only to find few opportunities
Marlon Hyde reports, investments in the EV sector in Georgia were accompanied by sweeping promises of thousands of jobs. At the beginning of this year, Goodwill of North Georgia launched its program to train people to move from low-wage positions to green jobs of the future, most of which are not here yet.
May 23, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Clayton County | Aiming for New Heights
Clarence W. Thomas Jr. reports, Clayton County is experiencing a major economic renaissance. Its location – with access to 19 exits and four major interstates (I-75, I-85, I-285 and I-675) – has always brought logistical benefits. Now it’s poised to make a real mark, with investment-driven projects on several fronts.
May 23, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feds chip in $75M to help build Georgia semiconductor materials plant
Zachary Hansen reports, Absolics, which is building a factory in Covington that will craft vital components for making semiconductors, will receive grant funding from a federal program designed to boost domestic computer chip manufacturing. The Biden-Harris Administration announced Thursday it has committed up to $75 million to help fund material development and construction of the Georgia factory, a pivotal step in creating a domestic supply chain for computer chips.
May 23, 2024 Clayton News-Daily
Hartsfield-Jackson To Get $88.8 Million For Upgrades
Staff reports that Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is getting more than $88.8 million in new federal funding for upgrades after the passage of a bipartisan infrastructure law. U.S. Senators Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff recently announced that airports throughout Georgia will get more than $120 million thanks to the fiscal year 2024 Airport Infrastructure Grant.
May 23, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
About $2M sought for workforce initiative
Jim Thompson reports, a coalition of local business leaders, educators, neighborhood leaders and others have made a pitch to Athens-Clarke County’s mayor and commission for nearly $2 million in seed money for a sweeping workforce development program dubbed “Athens Achieves.” The request comes as county officials continue allocation of the $57.6 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds provided to the county government under a nationwide $1.9 trillion economic stimulus initiative.
May 23, 2024 GPB
Study says Atlantans lost more than a billion dollars in real estate wealth to corporate investors
Peter Biello reports that a new study by Georgia Tech researchers attempts to measure how much wealth Atlantans have lost over the past decade or so, as they’ve been pushed to the sidelines by large corporate real estate investors.
May 23, 2024 Saporta Report
Atlanta cracks top 25 in annual ParkScore ranking
Delaney Tarr reports, Atlanta has earned its highest annual ParkScore yet in 2024, placing 25th out of the 100 largest U.S. cities in the yearly Trust for Public Land park ranking index. It marks a three-spot jump from last year when Atlanta placed 28th.
May 23, 2024 The Current
Most of Coastal Georgia skipped May primary election
Maggie Lee reports, about 60,000 people in Georgia’s six coastal counties felt enough energy about May partisan primaries and nonpartisan judicial votes to go cast a ballot. Another roughly 380,000 potential voters didn’t.
May 23, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Results: Cobb Sees 16% Primary Turnout
Hunter Riggall reports that just 16% of Cobb County’s registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial results. Only 83,344 of 507,683 registered voters in Cobb participated in the partisan primary and nonpartisan judicial elections.
May 23, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Voters deliver upsets in Georgia House races with other contests headed to a June runoff
Ross Williams reports, Georgia voters kicked out incumbents, picked replacements for departing legislators and set the stage for June runoffs as well as the big show in November. Ballot casters up and down the Peach State made choices Tuesday that are already set to reshape the state Legislature, which could have an even greater effect on the average Georgian than who sits in the White House this time next year.
May 23, 2024 Capitol Beat News
U.S. House passes McBath’s prison oversight bill
Dave Williams reports that legislation establishing oversight of the federal prison system sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, has cleared the U.S. House of Representatives. The bipartisan bill, which passed Tuesday with just two “no” votes and now moves to the U.S. Senate, would require the Justice Department’s Inspector General to conduct comprehensive inspections of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ 122 correctional facilities and provide recommendations to fix the problems it uncovers.
May 23, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Haley backs Trump. Will her Georgia supporters follow?
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report that former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley joined the long line of Donald Trump foes planning to vote for him despite a deep, fraught personal history and the former president’s habit of calling her “bird brain” while she ran against him. With Haley now on board with Trump, the question is whether her loyal supporters will follow.
