Gov. Brian Kemp and the Georgia Department of Economic Development Thursday announced that some 16,000 jobs have been created in the state in the first half of fiscal year 2021, totaling nearly $6 billion in new investments. This represents a 40% increase in new jobs created over the first half of 2020, a great sign that the state’s economy is on the rise after an obvious dip in much of last year. The main industries creating jobs are food processing, manufacturing, and logistics and distribution. Great work in trying times has the GDEcD team RISING…
Say Whose Names?
On the October 25, 2020 installment of FOX 5’s Georgia Gang, politicians were implored to remember the name of Secoriea Turner, an eight-year-old child gunned down in what was basically a criminal gang uprising in Atlanta. Disturbingly, almost no one seems to...Are billionaires infecting elections in Georgia and elsewhere?
“Follow the money.” If you really want to discover who is behind something, it is money that talks, and in this year’s election balloting, Mark Zuckerberg’s money talked loudly — some $400 million. That was the amount the California billionaire donated...Trump’s surprising weakness in Georgia
For Republican candidates and office holders, Donald Trump is the force that one dares not offend. The potency of his endorsements or tweets was shown more forcefully in Georgia than in most states when he weighed in on the behalf of Brian Kemp during the 2018...Georgia’s Beneficial Tax Credit Scholarship Program
(Publisher’s note: Georgia’s K-12 GOAL program allows individual and corporate taxpayers to receive an income tax credit for donating to tax-exempt student scholarship organizations, which then fund providing the scholarships that offset the cost of attending...A look at Georgia’s “other” runoff – for Public Service Commission
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent in an effort to influence our preferences in the two Senate runoffs. Flying so far below the radar that it may have tunneled underground is yet another decision to be made on January 5. Lauren “Bubba” McDonald...
