Sept. 19, 2024 11 Alive
Joe Ripley reports, the Federal Reserve’s move to lower its standard interest rate by half a percentage point caught Tom Smith, an economics professor at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business, by surprise. While he banked on the Fed lowering interest rates, he didn’t think the institution would decrease the rate so aggressively.
Sept. 19, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Brian Robinson writes, it took around a decade for Allen Peake’s vision to become reality in Georgia, but because of his commitment to Georgians who have serious health conditions, patients now have legal access to medical cannabis. A conservative Republican and wildly successful businessman in the restaurant industry, Peake represented a Macon-area state House district from 2007 to 2019.
Sept. 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Zachary Hansen reports, the icon of Atlanta’s skyline is set to become one of the city’s largest conversion projects, transforming underused office space into shops, restaurants and some of the highest altitude apartments in the Southeast. Pulp and paper giant Georgia-Pacific said Thursday it will redevelop its namesake 51-story downtown tower into a mixed-use destination.
Sept. 19, 2024 Savannah Morning News
John Deem reports, Georgia Power plans to tap one of the Savannah area’s industrial stalwarts for enough energy to serve the equivalent of more than 3,000 homes for a decade. State regulators on Tuesday approved the utility’s request to buy additional electricity generated by the burning of so-called biomass, including from International Paper’s Port Wentworth Mill.
Sept. 19, 2024 Fox 5 Atlanta
Christopher King reports that Gwinnett County wants to redevelop a rundown mall. The Board of County Commissioners just approved a $16.5-million deal to buy the Macy’s buildings at Gwinnett Place Mall and plans to build a mixed-use development that’ll include apartments, office space, and a park.
Sept. 19, 2024 Albany Herald, UGA
Baker Owens reports, the Rural Engagement Workshop for Academic Faculty at UGA has announced the list of funded faculty seed grants to address issues in rural Georgia. The grants offer funding between $5,000 and $10,000 for faculty from across the University of Georgia to engage with rural Georgians on issues that are critical for their communities.
Sept. 19, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
David Crowder reports, the first road project in Floyd County to use smart mix paving, which has a percentage of ground-up tires as part of the aggregate, has been completed, and now the county is looking to do a second project. According to Public Works Director Michael Skeen, the resurfacing of six-tenths of a mile on Terhune Road was completed in July, and all went smoothly.
Sept. 19, 2024 WABE
Jess Mador reports, it was two years ago when Sonnequa Madonia’s health problems first started with a constellation of urinary and gynecological symptoms that seemed to come out of nowhere. “I was completely healthy. And then after having a baby,” she said, “everything plummeted. It just went downhill.”
Sept. 19, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports, the U.S. postmaster general would be subject to term limits and Senate confirmation under legislation introduced Wednesday by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga. Ossoff has been highly critical of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy since reports surfaced earlier this year of months-long delays in delivering mail processed at a new regional distribution center in Fulton County.
Sept. 19, 2024 State Affairs
Tammy Joyner reports, once again, all eyes are on Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. On Tuesday, the engineer-turned-election czar held a whirlwind day of meet-the-press talks, featuring CBS Evening News, a television crew from Sweden and the regular homegrown press corps that continuously chronicle his every move.
Sept. 19, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports, Lake Oconee-area property owners complaining of exorbitant water rates urged Georgia lawmakers Wednesday to bring private water systems in Georgia under the same regulations that apply to municipal systems. Piedmont Water Co., the state’s second-largest private water system, is charging the second-highest water rates in Georgia, lower only than the private system serving the community of Big Canoe, property owner Mike Hartman told a Georgia House study committee at a hearing in Greensboro.
Sept. 19, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
David Wickert reports, Georgia voters are increasingly confident that the 2024 presidential election will be conducted fairly and accurately, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey shows. Nearly two-thirds of likely general election voters surveyed said they are very confident or somewhat confident the election will be fair and accurate.
