Georgia Trend Daily – June 6, 2024
June 6, 2024 Augusta Chronicle
Meet five men with Augusta-area connections who forged historic, heroic ties to D-Day
Joe Hotchkiss reports that the Augusta area’s long relationship with the U.S. military connects the Garden City and Fort Eisenhower with crucial moments in history, including D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Allied troops stormed French beaches at Normandy to begin the liberation of Western Europe during World War II. Here are just five out of the many people with Augusta connections who fought the Nazis at Normandy and lived to tell about it.
June 6, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
D-Day: Horrors and Heroes
Brian Robinson writes, eighty years ago this month, around 160,000 Allied troops, including 73,000 Americans, stormed the beaches of Normandy in choppy waters. D-Day lives on as one of the most momentous – and deadliest – dates in U.S. history. Of the more than 4,400 Allied soldiers who died that day, 2,500 were Americans.
June 6, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Money laundering law creates paperwork headaches for Georgia businesses
Rosie Manins reports that a new federal law could help crack down on money laundering, but its critics say it is burdening many Georgia businesses with additional paperwork, for which noncompliance has a high cost. The Corporate Transparency Act, passed by Congress and effective since Jan. 1, requires that most businesses share ownership information with the federal government or face daily fines of almost $600 and criminal penalties for missing deadlines.
June 6, 2024 Rome News-Tribune, Catoosa News
Walker County Gets a Second Mural
Tamara Wolk reports that a ribbon-cutting was held May 31 in Rossville for Walker County’s second mural, painted by artist Jonathan Bidwell, the same artist who painted the first mural in LaFayette. The mural features a steam locomotive chugging along and looking as if it might come off the wall it’s painted on and right onto the street.
June 6, 2024 11 Alive
Former pecan farmer tackles mental health in rural Georgia
Christie Diez reports, after losing his farm to Hurricane Michael, a South Georgia farmer has created one solution to the mental health crisis in his rural community. If you ask him what he does now, Eric Cohen will say, “I’m in the real estate business and telehealth business.”
June 6, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times
Echols suffers water outages
Terry Richards reports that within the last two weeks, residents of Statenville in Echols County have suffered two water outages and been under a boil water notice. The trouble began on May 21 when members of the Echols County Water Authority’s board received text messages that the Georgia Department of Transportation was going to close Ga. Highway 129 north of Statenville to make repairs, said Kevin Tomlinson, president of the water authority board.
June 6, 2024 GPB
Federally funded grants support after-hours child care in Georgia
Orlando Montoya reports that parents know how hard it can be to arrange for child care. That’s especially true for caregivers who work night shifts or on weekends. But not all child care providers are open during non-traditional working hours.
June 6, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgia lawmakers in line for new building to debate big issues
Kate Verity reports that some of the most important legislative debates at the Georgia Capitol don’t take place under the Gold Dome, but are instead hashed out across Mitchell Street, where committee rooms are often packed with lobbyists and concerned members of the public. It’s also the building where many lawmakers are assigned offices.
June 6, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Cobb Commission Candidate Appeal Headed Back to Court
Jake Busch reports that a Republican disqualified from running for the Cobb County Board of Commissioners and the elections board that disqualified her are headed back to court this month. Cobb Superior Court Judge Kellie Hill has scheduled additional oral arguments for Thursday, June 20 at 9:30 a.m. in Alicia Adams’ appeal against the Cobb Board of Elections.
June 6, 2024 State Affairs
It’s cheaper to send your child to college than to day care in Georgia. What state lawmakers plan to do this summer to help
Tammy Joyner reports that working parents in Georgia spend, on average, $20,732 a year for an infant and 4-year-old in a child care center, according to Child Care Aware of America, an organization that works for more affordable child care. That’s about $1,000 more than they spend on housing.
June 6, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Georgia appellate court pauses Trump election interference case
Dave Williams reports that the Georgia Court of Appeals declared Wednesday that it will not move forward with an election interference prosecution of former President Donald Trump until after deciding whether to disqualify Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis from the case. The one-page ruling came just two days after the appellate court set a hearing date of Oct. 4 on the appeal, virtually guaranteeing the case won’t go to trial before the Nov. 5 presidential election pitting Trump in a rematch against incumbent President Joe Biden.
June 6, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ossoff, Warnock secure funds preserving John Lewis’ congressional papers
Ernie Suggs reports, in his 80 years, first as a Civil Rights Movement leader, then as a powerful longstanding member of Congress, John Lewis created a lot of “good trouble.” Befitting a man of his stature, he also created a long paper trail of documents, letters, notes and journals.
