Georgia Trend Daily – July 17, 2024
July 18, 2024 GPB
Georgia ranks high for solar power in the South
Grant Blankenship reports that Georgia utilities earned high marks this year in an annual report on the state of solar power in the South. In its “Solar in the Southeast” report, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy notes that Georgia Power ranks fourth out of 14 major regional electricity providers in a key measure: watts of solar electricity produced per customer, or W/C.
July 18, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
A Focus on Literacy
Brian Robinson writes, Metro Atlanta boasts incredibly effective private schools that cater to students with dyslexia. They offer small class sizes, highly trained teachers and specialists in reading and speech therapy.
July 18, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia film, TV business ‘should be booming.’ Here’s why it’s not
Savannah Sicurella reports, as temperatures started rising in Georgia, so too did the number of film and television projects underway in the state, a rebound in business for an industry still reeling from last year’s strikes by Hollywood writers and actors. But the activity is still lower than its recent peak in Georgia, a trend that is expected to continue as media companies adjust to what experts say is the “new norm” for content production amid industry belt-tightening and consolidation.
July 18, 2024 Albany Herald
Southwest Georgia farmers struggling with dry weather, poor crop prices
Alan Mauldin reports, a drive through parts of Mitchell County reveals lush, green stands of blooming cotton in a number of fields. But a short distance down the road there are other fields where the plants are obviously struggling. Among the worst is one where the plants are stunted, and large portions of the field have no visible stand of plants.
July 18, 2024 Georgia.gov
Gov. Kemp: HOPE Scholarship Awards Reach Over $15 Billion
Staff reports, Gov. Kemp on Wednesday announced that the HOPE Scholarship Program has awarded over $15 billion to more than 2.1 million Georgia students since its inception in 1993. “After three straight years of record-breaking economic development, Georgians have more opportunity than ever before,” said Gov. Kemp.
July 18, 2024 The Current
McIntosh County must pay penalty or fix assessments
Maggie Lee reports, as McIntosh County prepares the annual property tax bill for its residents, the county is dealing with some pressing communication from its own tax authority: the Georgia Department of Revenue. The agency is ordering McIntosh to make equitable and uniform assessments or face a $63,070 penalty.
July 18, 2024 Fox 5 Atlanta
Atlanta transportation chief affirms southside projects to be city’s top priority
Aungelique Proctor reports, the head of the Atlanta Department of Transportation says aging infrastructure and even supply chain issues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have delayed projects on the city’s southside. He vows streets and neighborhoods in southwest Atlanta are the top priority for the city. During the last few days, at least three members of the Atlanta City Council have accused the transportation commissioner of neglecting the city’s southside.
July 18, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
State Proposing Cuts to Commuter Bus Service
Hunter Riggall reports that the state agency which runs the Xpress commuter bus system is proposing service reductions, including in Cobb County. The current Xpress bus system operates on weekdays and serves residents in 13 counties, bringing them to the downtown, midtown and perimeter office markets.
July 18, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Plant Vogtle nuclear reactor back in service
Dave Williams reports that a nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle that operators shut down last week is back in service and sending power to the electric grid, Georgia Power officials reported Wednesday. Unit 3 at the nuclear plant south of Augusta, which went into full commercial operation last summer, was taken offline July 8 because of a problem with a valve on one of its three main pumps.
July 18, 2024 WABE
Next year, homeless voters in Georgia may have to travel miles to get election mail
Stephannie Stokes reports, a new Georgia law changes where homeless voters can get their election mail, requiring them to visit their county’s main elections office. The change, part of Senate Bill 189, starts next year but it’s already faced criticism from voting rights advocates who say it unfairly burdens unhoused voters.
July 18, 2024 Georgia Recorder
Georgia Dems try to redirect focus to conservative Project 2025 agenda as Biden campaign struggles
Jill Nolin reports that Georgia Democrats are joining their national colleagues in sounding the alarm about an influential conservative think tank’s presidential transition plan called Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation promoted the platform Tuesday near the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
July 18, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Seniors are the fastest growing group of voters in Georgia. That could help Trump
Phoebe Quinton reports, as the two oldest major-party presidential candidates in U.S. history compete for the nation’s top elected office, voters have expressed doubts about the mental competency of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to serve another four-year term. But the candidates aren’t the only ones getting older.
