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Coastal emergency managers take stock of Helene’s damage
网页1 天前 · McIntosh County Emergency Manager Ty Poppell estimated the county had about 50-60 residences with tree damage of any level. Bryan County had no estimate available Tuesday, spokesman Nicholas Beard said. Liberty reported four residences destroyed, 70 with minor damage and 536 residences “affected” by Helene, meaning very minor damage.
Biden approves major disaster declaration for 11 counties
网页1 天前 · ATLANTA – President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Georgia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The Biden administration’s action means funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be available to affected residents in the 11 counties in southeastern Georgia hit hardest by last Friday’s storm: Appling, Brooks, Coffee, Columbia, Jefferson ...
Judge rules Georgia’s restrictive abortion law unconstitutional
网页2 天之前 · A state judge has struck down Georgia’s roughly six-week abortion ban. The 2019 law took effect in 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In a 26-page ruling, Fulton Superior Judge Robert McBurney found Georgia’s law unconstitutional and ruled that it cannot be enforced. Read the ruling here.
Ports of Savannah and Brunswick at standstill as workers strike
网页1 天前 · We are respecting the contract negotiation process with our ports closed today.”. As of noon Tuesday, 10 container ships and three bulk carriers were at anchor in the Atlantic Ocean near the Port of Savannah, according to VesselFinder. An analysis by J.P. Morgan estimated that the strike could cost the U.S. economy up to $5 billion per day.
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Georgia's legislative priorities: Readers weigh in - The Current
网页2024年1月15日 · Access to affordable health care. Salary raises for teachers. Workforce housing. Those are the needs that readers of The Current want Georgia’s lawmakers to put at the top of their to-do lists as work gets underway at the state capitol in Atlanta in the latest session of the Georgia General Assembly, according to a survey.. Before we look at the survey’s results in the first of two stories ...
Georgia is making its first-ever climate change plan
网页2023年7月11日 · For the first time, Georgia is working on a statewide plan to address climate change. There’s a plan in the works for metro Atlanta, too. The effort is thanks to federal funding in the Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law last year. It includes $3 million for each state to make a climate pollution reduction plan.
The Tide: What new infrastructure bill could do for Coastal …
网页2021年11月9日 · Instead, according to the White House, the bill includes: $89.9 billion in guaranteed funding for public transit over the next five years. $66 billion in funding to eliminate the Amtrak maintenance backlog, modernize the Northeast Corridor, and improve rail service outside the northeast and mid-Atlantic. $110 billion in new funding to repair ...
‘It seemed like our lives didn’t matter.’ - The Current
网页2021年11月30日 · More than two months later, cellphone video was released showing how Arbery was chased by three white men before being shot. Hundreds of people in Glynn County took to the streets in outrage. “We needed answers. We needed accountability. We grew up here, but it seemed like our lives didn’t matter,” Henderson says.