Georgia Trend Daily – June 14, 2024
June 14, 2024 Georgia Ports Authority
Georgia Ports Authority sees 22 percent container growth
Staff reports that a strengthening retail market combined with business from new customers is driving substantial growth at the Port of Savannah. The Georgia Ports Authority handled 490,330 twenty-foot equivalent container units in May, an increase of 22 percent or nearly 90,000 TEUs over the same month a year ago.
June 14, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Restaurant Founder Gives HBCU Graduates a Head Start
Kathleen Conway reports, the 2024 graduating class of Savannah State University got more than inspirational words after inviting the founder of the Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan restaurants to be its commencement speaker. Pinky Cole Hayes not only gave the graduation address, she also promised each of the graduates membership in One Million Black Businesses (1MBB) – a partnership with Operation HOPE and Shopify to start and help support 1 million Black businesses by 2030.
June 14, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package is sky-high compared to Georgia CEOs
Kelly Yamanouchi reports, the CEOs of the some of the best-known companies in Georgia — Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, Equifax and UPS — got compensation packages worth millions of dollars last year. That’s still a small fraction of Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package.
June 14, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Five more Georgia communities receiving workforce housing grants
Dave Williams reports, five Georgia communities will receive $10.3 million for infrastructure projects to support more than 300 housing units, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday. The state Department of Community Affairs will distribute the funds as the fourth round of grants through Kemp’s Rural Workforce Housing Initiative, which the governor announced last year during his annual State of the State address to the General Assembly.
June 14, 2024 GPB
Georgia growers part of group saying new rules for migrant farm workers go too far
Sofi Gratas reports that a new rule from the U.S. Department of Labor that would allow some migrant farmworkers to self-organize has some Georgia growers accusing the federal agency of overstepping its bounds. The complaint came as a lawsuit filed Monday in Brunswick by a group of Republican-led states that includes Georgia.
June 14, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
A ‘Cornerstone’ of Engagement, Japanese Consulate Marks Half a Century in Atlanta
Trevor Williams reports, an audience of dignitaries, legislators, executives and economic development officials came together for a reception marking the 50-year anniversary of the Consulate General of Japan’s presence in Atlanta.
June 14, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
UGA to honor former Georgia Chief Justice Robert Benham with Footsteps Award
Wayne Ford reports, the University of Georgia this week announced that retired Georgia Supreme Court Judge Robert Benham will receive the 2024 Footsteps Award during an event Friday in Atlanta. Benham, a native of Cartersville, was the first Black person to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia after he was appointed to the court in December 1989.
June 13, 2024 Georgia.gov
Gov. Kemp Tours the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Staff reports, on the first day of their economic development mission to the Republic of Korea, Governor Brian P. Kemp was joined by First Lady Marty Kemp in touring the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Intersecting the 38th parallel north, the DMZ runs across the Korean Peninsula and was established in 1953 under the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
June 13 2024 11 Alive
DeKalb County Schools rolls out new staffing incentives, referral programs
Leah Williams reports that the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) announced a series of staffing incentives and referral programs on Wednesday. According to a press release, the school district is offering comprehensive compensation incentives for new professionals.
June 14, 2024 WSB Radio, WSB TV
Fourth earthquake in a week hits Lake Lanier area
Staff reports, for the fourth time in the last seven days, a small earthquake has hit the Buford area around Lake Lanier. The U.S. Geological Survey said this one was a 2.2 magnitude earthquake. It hit shortly after 7:15 a.m. Thursday.
June 14, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Experts forecast active hurricane season as warming oceans crank up storm intensity
Kate Verity reports, hurricane season is here, and meteorologists say they are expecting an especially active season this year. An outlook by The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2 predicts 12 hurricanes and 25 named storms.
June 14, 2024 The Brunswick News
Okefenokee group named Refuge Advocate of the Year
Gordon Jackson reports that the Okefenokee Protection Alliance has been named the 2024 Refuge Advocate of the Year by the National Wildlife Refuge Association. “Over the last six years, our partners have shared one goal: Safeguarding the refuge and the wildlife that call it home,” said Christian Hunt, senior policy analyst at Defenders of Wildlife.
June 14, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
VP Harris to speak to influential Black group in Atlanta
Greg Bluestein and Mirtha Donastorg report that Vice President Kamala Harris is set to speak to an influential Black organization in Atlanta on Friday, the first of two visits in a week in Georgia that aim to bolster support from one of the party’s most loyal constituencies. She’ll speak to the annual conference of the 100 Black Men of America at the Hyatt Regency.
