Georgia Trend Daily – July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024 Georgia.org
Georgia Council for the Arts Awards More Than $3.5 Million in Grant Funding to Support Arts Organizations
Staff reports that the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA), a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), announced that more than $3.5 million in competitive grant funding will be distributed to recipients across the state through its Bridge, Project, and Arts Education Program grants.
July 17, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
The Benefits of Thinking Big
Tharon Johnson writes, it is almost impossible to think about the city of Atlanta without the BeltLine. Atlanta is famous for the Civil Rights Movement, hip-hop, the Fox Theatre and Coca-Cola. Now, the BeltLine has joined that esteemed list.
July 17, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New details revealed about Microsoft’s $1.8B data center near Atlanta
Zachary Hansen reports, state paperwork sheds some new light on a future Microsoft data center campus — one of the largest projects on Atlanta’s Southside. The campus at 4810 Stonewall Tell Road in Union City will span some 2.1 million square feet — larger than the Mall of Georgia, planning documents made public Tuesday show.
July 17, 2024 WABE
Workforce shortages and talent development remain top issues among Georgia small businesses
Marlon Hyde reports, in between panels and presentations at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural “Future of Small Business” summit, attendees discussed the trends impacting business owners across the state, as well as their concerns about their futures as workforce and talent development remain top issues. According to the US Small Business Administration, small businesses in Georgia employ over 1.7 million people.
July 17, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Plant Vogtle Unit 3 shut down by ‘valve issue’
Dave Williams reports that one of the two newest nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle has been shut down due to a “valve issue,” the Atlanta-based utility announced Tuesday. Operators at the plant’s Unit 3 safely shut down the reactor on July 8 due to lowering water levels in the steam generators caused by a problem with a valve on one of three main pumps.
July 17, 2024 11 Alive
This Georgia suburb ranks No. 1 among best in US | List
Dajhea Jones reports that travel magazine Travel + Leisure rounded up the best suburbs in the nation to live in, and one city in Georgia took the top spot on the list. The rankings were based on feedback from expert realtors and livability. Johns Creek, a suburb nearly 30 miles north of Atlanta, is ranked number one among the top ten suburbs in the US. The city was the only one from Georgia to make the list.
July 17, 2024 The Brunswick News
City commission request to operate transit lines outside city limits
Taylor Cooper reports that the city is sending a formal request to the Glynn County Commission for permission to operate a public transit system outside its municipal limits. For the first year, it will be funded by federal grants. Once approved by the county, the city can begin soliciting proposals for “turn-key” microtransit services.
July 17, 2024 Gwinnett Daily Post
Gwinnett Officials have ‘No Interest’ in Defending Legislation that created Mulberry
Curt Yeomans reports that Gwinnett County is offering support to a lawsuit aimed at stopping the formation of the county’s 17th city. The county recently filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit that Stephen Hughes has filed in Fulton County to stop the city of Mulberry’s creation.
July 17, 2024 Dalton Daily Citizen
State Senate Study Committee on Veterans’ Mental Health and Housing to hold second hearing
Staff reports that on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., the state Senate Study Committee on Veterans’ Mental Health and Housing, chaired by Sen. Chuck Payne, R–Dalton, will hold its second hearing in the state Capitol. This event is open to the public and will be livestreamed on the Senate website.
July 17, 2024 Newnan Times-Herald
Ossoff keeps up pressure on USPS, Audit finds issues
Laura Camper reports that Sen. Jon Ossoff met with U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday to remind him that Georgia residents need improved mail delivery service. The U.S. Post Office dashboard, which lists delivery statistics by state, region and local, shows Georgia having the lowest on time service delivery in the nation at 63.7 percent.
July 17, 2024 GPB
Raffensperger partners with nonprofit to encourage veterans to become poll workers
Sarah Kallis reports that the Georgia secretary of state’s office is partnering with a national nonprofit to engage more poll workers ahead of the November 2024 election. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will work with Vet the Vote in an effort to recruit military veterans to become poll workers.
July 17, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Federal judge rejects Georgia’s request to extend length of time for state’s limited Medicaid plan
Jill Nolin reports that a federal judge has denied the state’s end-around attempt to gain back time lost during the Biden administration’s unsuccessful bid to block the governor’s limited Medicaid expansion program. Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ruled that state officials will have to formally request approval to extend the life of Georgia Pathways to Coverage, which is set to expire in September 2025.
July 17, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PG A.M.: Georgia stays in the political shadows at Republican convention
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Van Brimmer report, Georgia has had more than its fair share of time at the center of the political universe over the last four years. The new battleground state flipped to President Joe Biden in 2020, gave Democrats control of the U.S. Senate with two new U.S. senators, and was at the middle of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 elections.
