Georgia Trend Daily – Sept. 25, 2024

Sept. 25, 2024 WSB Radio

Staff reports that the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency discussed how the state is preparing for Tropical Storm Helene. GEMA Director Chris Stallings announced Tuesday that Gov. Brian Kemp issued a state of emergency.

Sept. 25, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!

Karen Kirkpatrick reports, Robert Bunch has worked for Anthem for nearly 25 years. He was named president in 2022 at a time when the healthcare industry was still reeling from COVID.

Sept. 25, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Adam Van Brimmer reports that the Georgia Ports Authority will shutter its marine terminals in Savannah and Brunswick next Tuesday if dockworkers go on strike. The International Longshoremen’s Association, a union with approximately 2,500 members at Georgia’s ports, have vowed to walk out if its labor contract with shipping companies is not renewed before it expires Monday.

Sept. 25, 2024 Savannah Morning News

Amy Paige Condon reports, at its monthly board meeting Tuesday morning, the Georgia Ports Authority announced that the Garden City Terminal enjoyed its eighth consecutive month of growth. GPA President and CEO Griff Lynch reported that the Port of Savannah recorded its second busiest August, behind 2022, with more than 490,000 twenty-foot equivalent container units – an 18.6% increase over 2023.

 

Sept. 25, 2024 The Brunswick News

Taylor Cooper reports that Colonel’s Island is poised to become America’s busiest port for roll-on, roll-off cargo as the automobile and heavy equipment shipping and processing facility prepares to add 50 more acres of paved vehicle storage, the Georgia Ports Authority announced Tuesday. The authority approved the measure at a meeting on Jekyll Island on Tuesday.

Sept. 25, 2024 Rome News-Tribune

Blake Silvers reports, for decades massive chemical companies were allowed to produce and distribute chemicals that were subsequently dumped into much of Northwest Georgia’s drinking water supply. “This is not something that just cropped up suddenly overnight in your land or your water,” Erin Brokovich with PFAS Georgia told a group gathered to learn about chemical pollution in their communities.

Sept. 25, 2024 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Brittany McGee reports that Salt Life in Columbus will close in October after the retail chain’s parent company, Delta Apparel, filed for bankruptcy earlier this summer. The Columbus store is slated to close Oct. 20, according to a marketing email advertising Salt Life’s closing sale.

Sept. 25, 2024 Valdosta Daily Times

Staff reports that Valdosta State University has partnered with Hwashin Georgia to promote entrepreneurship and small business development by supporting the creation of ventures conceived, managed, and owned by students. Hwashin Georgia recently donated $10,000 to support the J. Donald Lee Center for Entrepreneurship’s annual Business Plan Competition, which is open to all VSU students, regardless of major or business experience, according to a press release from VSU.

Sept. 25, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald

Wayne Ford reports, water can damage a home, especially those facets of a structure made of wood. With that in mind, a new business has located in Athens to offer a new way to repair rotted wood without replacing the whole piece.

Sept. 25, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal

Hunter Riggall reports that two-thirds of Cobb County voters don’t know they will be asked to vote on a 1%, 30-year transit tax in November, according to a forthcoming poll. That was the biggest takeaway for Croy Engineering President Greg Teague, one of the leaders of a group of businesses which funded the poll.

Sept. 25, 2024 The Current

Gillian Goodman, Robin Kemp and Mary Landers report, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump landed in Savannah with the intent of explaining his economic plan to the nation should he be re-elected to a second term in November. Yet for significant numbers who came to witness the former president’s first visit to Coastal Georgia, policy statements about manufacturing were not the priority.

Sept. 25, 2024 11 Alive

Rebecca Lindstrom and Mike Nicolas report, it’s not a neighborhood squabble. It’s abuse of power. That’s the message from homeowners who spoke at a bipartisan Senate committee looking into the state’s laws around home and condo associations.

Sept. 25, 2024 Capitol Beat News

Dave Williams reports, a group of property owners who stand to lose their land to Sandersville Railroad Co. in an eminent domain proceeding filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn a decision allowing the taking. The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) voted unanimously early this month to uphold a hearing officer’s recommendation declaring a proposed spur the freight rail line plans to build would be for a legitimate public purpose.

 

Sept. 25, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Caleb Groves reports, the Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday about whether Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West are qualified to be on the Nov. 5 presidential ballot. But whatever the justices decide, it’s too late to strike their names.