Georgia Trend Daily – June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024 Capitol Beat News
State Tax Revenues Continue Downward Slide
Dave Williams reports, Georgia tax collections continued to fall last month, dropping 1.1% compared to May of last year, the state Department of Revenue reported Friday. With just one month remaining in the current fiscal year, tax revenues are down by 1.2% compared to the first 11 months of fiscal 2023.
June 17, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Breast Cancer Breakthroughs
Kenna Simmons reports, Alicia Arnold was just finishing her third year of medical school when she found a lump in her breast. It was a discovery that would change her life. Now Dr. Arnold, she is now a breast surgeon herself and director of the breast program at the Georgia Cancer Center at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) in Augusta, which is now affiliated with Wellstar.
June 17, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PrizePicks expanding Atlanta HQ despite Georgia’s sports betting purgatory
Zachary Hansen reports, daily fantasy sports is all about finding overlooked value. Whether it’s banking on a player’s hot streak or believing a scrappy team is this year’s Cinderella, sports fans bet they can capitalize on their knowledge and intuition.
June 17, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Calhoun Farm Awarded Labor Stabilization Grant
Staff reports that Rise ‘N Shine Organic Farm in Calhoun has been awarded a $200,000 federal grant through a pilot program aimed at improving the resiliency of the U.S. food chain. The family operation is among the 141 awardees in 40 states sharing the $50 million allocated this year in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new Farm Labor Stabilization and Protection Pilot Program.
June 17, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Dutch Royal Visit to McDonough: Why NewCold Believes America Is Finally Ready for European-Style Food Logistics
Trevor Williams reports, as King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands unveiled Pallet #1 at NewCold’s $333 million facility in McDonough, he ushered in what company executives see as a new era in food storage in the United States. Wrapped in plastic fittingly hued for the House of Orange-Nassau, the cargo would later join a tracked conveyance system and move without human effort to the upper reaches of the “high-bay” warehouse.
June 17, 2024 WABE
15 ways to celebrate Juneteenth at events across metro Atlanta
Kenny Murry reports, on Wednesday, June 19, residents across Atlanta will once again celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the anniversary of the last group of enslaved people freed in the United States. Several events and activities are also planned for the days leading up to Juneteenth, which was first recognized as a federal holiday in 2021.
June 17, 2024 The Current
Sapelo Island residents renew rezoning fight at historic community
Mary Landers reports that Black residents of Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island refiled a legal challenge to zoning they fear will lead to higher taxes and push them off their ancestral Gullah Geechee community in McIntosh County. The original complaint filed in October challenged zoning change passed by county commissioners to allow houses on the island to double in size to 3,000 square feet.
June 13, 2024 Albany Herald, UGA CAES
UGA, Grand Farm announce agriculture innovation partnership
Jordan Powers reports that the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Grand Farm, a leading innovator in agricultural technology, announced a collaboration to create a robust regional agricultural innovation ecosystem. Situated on 250 acres in Perry, next to the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter and at the heart of the state’s agricultural landscape, CAES and Grand Farm are coming together to build the University of Georgia Grand Farm, a working innovation farm with plans to deploy the first field projects in 2025.
June 13 2024 The Brunswick News
New construction, rising land values drive growth in tax digest
Taylor Cooper reports, rising home values can be good news for homeowners, but it also means higher property taxes. The county has seen substantial growth in the tax digest of nearly $30 million in the last three years.
June 17, 2024 GPB
Taxpayer dollars at work: Water infrastructure upgrades, Opposing e-cigarettes sold to children
Ambria Burton reports, for the week ending June 14, 2024, Warnock and Ossoff worked on providing water infrastructure upgrades to several areas in Georgia after the recent water main break in Midtown Atlanta, inquired about the dangerous living conditions for children at the border detention families, pushed for stronger enforcement against selling e-cigarettes to children, and introduced legislation promoting fatherhood engagement for maternal health.
June 17, 2024 Georgia Recorder
GOP Congressional hopefuls square up for runoff in southwest Georgia
Ross Williams and Jill Nolin report that David Theiss, a former mayor of Ellaville, has watched his town’s population – and the hope for another generation of Ellaville residents – dwindle over the years. “We’ve got empty buildings sitting here that we could be using. We’ve got one of the best schools in the whole state in this county, but we can’t keep kids here because there’s nothing to do,” Theiss said.
June 17, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Spread of Solar Farms in Georgia About to Get Legislative Scrutiny
Dave Williams reports, Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, with 8 million acres of prime farmland. Yet, there’s so much concern over the spread of solar farms eating up huge portions of that acreage with vast fields of solar panels that the state Senate has formed a study committee to explore what can be done to save the most fertile land for farmers.
June 17, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Warnock, Ossoff rebuke Senate Republicans for blocking IVF bill
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report that one day after Georgia Republican House Speaker Jon Burns promised to protect access to in vitro fertilization for women struggling with infertility, Republicans in the U.S. Senate blocked a bill from Democrats to do just that. The measure would have guaranteed the right to access IVF services, for providers to offer those services, and for insurance companies to cover IVF, regardless of state law.
