by JMO Staff | Jun 14, 2022 | Georgia Pines
A group of 200 black women in three of Georgia’s poorest counties will receive more than $20,000 a piece as part of a “guaranteed income” experiment from the initiative ‘In Her Hands.’ The women, selected at random from applicants...
by JMO Staff | Jun 7, 2022 | Georgia Pines
The biggest TSPLOST news coming out of last month’s election was in Atlanta, but another major region of the state renewed one of their own that will fund hundreds of projects over the next decade. Voters in the Heart of Georgia Altamaha (HOGA) Region, which...
by JMO Staff | May 31, 2022 | Georgia Pines
The recently-announced Hyundai Motor Group electric vehicle factory in Bryan County outside Savannah will be one of the largest industrial manufacturing projects in the Southeast, and will also serve as a facilitator for some major infrastructure upgrades. The...
by JMO Staff | May 24, 2022 | Georgia Pines
A voting site in Bryan County in southeast Georgia was forced to close ahead of today’s primary elections, but not because of any legal or political reasons. The Hendrix Park Gym in Ellabell was destroyed last month by a deadly tornado that ripped through the...
by JMO Staff | May 17, 2022 | Georgia Pines
Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan was on hand last week to dedicate a sprawling, new 68-megawatt solar power facility in Houston County, just off I-75 near Perry in Middle Georgia. The project is the seventh utility-scale solar facility in the state to be brought online by Green...
by JMO Staff | May 10, 2022 | Georgia Pines
Looking for a way to expand the sport of football to Georgia girls, the Atlanta Falcons and the Arthur M. Blank Foundation in 2018 partnered with Gwinnett County Schools to fund the first-ever girls’ high school flag football league in Georgia. That season all 19...
