CEO of the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Krystal Crawford discusses the State of the Georgia Girl Report and how this data will impact girls across the state in this video from our friends at Georgia CEO:
Highway contracting is big business, and we mean BIG. The Georgia Department of Transportation has come to a deal with Top End Mobility Group to build and maintain 19 miles of express lanes along I-285 in Atlanta, a project meant to alleviate congestion in coming decades. Top End will pay $8.9 billion in construction costs in exchange for 50 years of toll revenue from the project, along with a $23.6 billion concession fee. Those are some eye-popping numbers ahead of a massive project that isn’t expected to be completed until 2042. The staggering scale and complexity of the highway plan has GDOT and the winning bidders at Top End RISING…