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Aug. 22, 2023 Georgia Recorder First of state’s three new shovel-ready crisis centers gets bipartisan groundbreaking in Fulton County Jill Nolin reports that state and local officials from both sides of the aisle took turns shoveling ceremonial dirt Monday to…

Aug. 21, 2023 Augusta Chronicle Georgia Power to start loading fuel into Plant Vogtle Unit 4, test the reactor Erica Van Buren reports that Georgia Power declared on Friday that it will start loading fuel into the reactor core of…

Aug. 18, 2023 The Center Square Georgia unemployment remains below national average as initial claims rise T.A. DeFeo reports that Georgia's July unemployment rate was 3.2%, unchanged from June's revised rate, even as more Georgians filed initial unemployment claims. The…

Aug. 16, 2023 Saporta Report Norfolk Southern’s Alan Shaw: ‘We’re not done. We’re going to continue to get better’ Maria Saporta reports, when Alan Shaw became CEO of Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern 15 months ago, he had no idea what the…

Aug. 15, 2023 GlobalAtlanta.com Georgia’s Record Year Driven by International Investment  Trevor Williams reports that a record year for Georgia’s business attraction efforts was led by international investment, which accounted for two-thirds of the $24 billion in capital pledged toward…

Aug. 14, 2023 Georgia Ports Authority Georgia Ports container volumes up 17 percent from June Staff reports that the Georgia Ports Authority handled 447,590 twenty-foot equivalent container units in July, up 17 percent from 381,825 TEUs moved in June. “I…

Aug. 11, 2023 Georgia.gov July Non-Motor Fuel Tax Revenues Up 5.0%, Net Revenues Up 13.1% Staff reports that the State of Georgia’s net tax collections for the first month of FY 2024 totaled nearly $2.50 billion, for an increase of…

Aug. 10, 2023 Rough Draft Atlanta Metro Atlanta population hits 5.16 million Staff reports that the 11-county Atlanta region added 66,730 residents between April 2022 and April 2023, bringing the total population to 5.16 million, according to estimates released today…

Aug. 9, 2023 Georgia.gov Georgia Breaks Economic Development Records for Third Year in a Row Staff reports that Gov. Kemp, in conjunction with the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), yesterday announced that for the third year in a row…