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Workers exposed to safety hazards at LaGrange auto parts factory
The sparks would burn through Kimberly Scandrick’s cotton work shirts, leaving pinprick-sized marks on her arms and chest. Freckles, she and a co-worker at Sewon America called them, laughing uneasily at the scars left by the robotic welder. Still, in the back of her mind, Scandrick worried that the sparks ...
Florida asks Supreme Court to send more Chattahoochee water downstream
Florida, as promised, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to order Georgia to let more Chattahoochee River water flow into the Panhandle to keep the state’s oyster industry afloat. Gov. Rick Scott, sidestepping the traditional, up-through-the-courts legal process, requested that the justices ultimately decide the thorny and protracted interstate ...
Big Atlanta law firm in merger talks
McKenna Long & Aldridge, one of Atlanta’s largest law firms, is in merger talks with Dentons, a legal behemoth with offices in 50 countries. In a statement released Monday evening, McKenna said: “While we continue to have discussions about the future, we do not have a relationship to announce.” Dentons, ...
Georgia lags in bringing down jobless rate
Georgia’s jobless rate never rose as high as neighboring states’ during the Great Recession and its desultory aftermath. But it’s also not falling as quickly as the recovery grinds on. Four years since the recession’s end, Georgia – with Atlanta as the one-time star of the New South economy – ...
LaGrange worker death attributed to natural causes
A 42-year-old woman who collapsed in May while working at a LaGrange auto parts factory cited for numerous safety violations, died of natural causes, the state’s medical examiner’s office has determined. Teresa Pickard, who worked the weld line at the Sewon America plant, “died of a heart attack due to ...
Low-wage jobs play outsized role in Georgia's economy
The U.S. economy churns out low-wage jobs — burger flippers, shelf-stockers, in-home caregivers — at an impressive clip. Three of every five U.S. jobs created since the end of the Great Recession are low-wage. Nearly 150,000 Georgians earn the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour or less. Their numbers are ...
Georgia’s ports prepare for slower, yet still-positive future growth
More than 635,000 Kias, Toyotas and Caterpillar tractors moved in and out of this brawny port last year. Wood pellets from Georgia’s forests flowed through en route to European power plants. Nearly 150,000 tons of imported corn was gobbled by Southern chickens. The port of Brunswick performed very well in ...
Enough blame to go around for decline of Florida’s oyster industry
Just about every oysterman putting a wooden skiff in the water last week agreed with Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Georgia — Atlanta in particular — is to blame for the economic and environmental devastation of the once-bountiful bay. Tuesday, Scott visited this picturesque fishing village to announce his plan for ...
Florida to sue Georgia over water use
Florida wants to take its “water war” with Georgia to the U.S. Supreme Court. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday he will ask the high court to restrict Georgia’s water use, a not-so-surprising sign that more than two decades of negotiations among Georgia, Alabama and Florida have failed. Florida’s oyster ...
Changing tastes led changing fortunes in Georgia’s food industries
Americans may be eating more cheese than ever before, but their collective appetite wasn’t big enough to keep a cheese factory here from laying off 115 people last week with the plant’s shutdown scheduled for early next year. The cheesy paradox isn’t so surprising, though. Schreiber Foods makes processed cheese ...
UGA to open Atlanta economic development office
UGA President Jere Morehead is reorganizing the school’s economic development activities and opening an office in Atlanta with an eye towards boosting the state’s growth. “I am convinced the University of Georgia can play an even greater role in economic development and these changes signal our intention to do so,” ...
Jekyll Island embraces its rural side to win federal loan guarantee
Jekyll Island offers big-city amenities even the most sophisticated Atlantan can enjoy: golf courses, a waterpark, an exquisitely restored historic district, hotels topping out at $479 a night, and ocean-side homes going for $700,000. Little about Jekyll evokes rural Georgia. Yet state and federal officials, desperate to arrange financing for ...
Safety issues ongoing concern at LaGrange auto parts maker
An auto parts plant in LaGrange is again under investigation by federal authorities for possible workplace safety violations — the eighth inspection of the factory in four years. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s inspection was prompted by complaints of excessive heat from Sewon America employees who make chassis and ...
The enduring struggle of the long-term unemployed
The economy is improving and more Georgians are finding work, but the good news is little comfort for the long-term unemployed who’ve tried and failed to find a job for weeks, months, sometimes years. If you’ve been without work for more than 26 weeks, you fall into the long-term jobless ...
Port of Savannah could fall behind in race to attract cargo ships
Georgia’s major port is falling farther behind in a nationwide race to attract larger cargo ships, possibly endangering thousands of Atlanta jobs and millions in tax revenues. Officials now acknowledge that deepening the port of Savannah to handle bigger ships would take at least two years longer than they predicted ...
Delta cancels San Francisco flights
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines canceled 10 flights into and out of San Francisco as a result of the Saturday afternoon crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214. More cancellations might be announced later, Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant said. “Our operations in San Francisco are going to be affected,” Durrant said, adding ...
Delta, other airlines, cancel flights as result of San Francisco crash
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has canceled 10 flights into and out of San Francisco as a result of the Saturday afternoon crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214. More cancellations may be announced later in the day, said Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant. “Our operations in San Francisco are going to be ...
Raising the CSS Georgia a maritime coup for the state
The CSS Georgia, the infamous Civil War Ironclad scuttled by its own crew in 1864, will soon be raised from the depths of the Savannah River. Armed with $14.5 million, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin hauling up what remains of Georgia’s most famous shipwreck, possibly by year’s ...
Georgia’s rich maritime history largely unknown
SAVANNAH – The wind and the waves peeled back layers of Cumberland Island sand last December to reveal a piece of history: the wooden bones of a long-lost cargo ship. Archaeologists surmised from the gunnel and wooden nails that the 100-foot-long vessel was at least 150 years old, possibly a ...
Attorney General says Jekyll has room to grow
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens ruled Thursday against environmentalists and Jekyll Island residents who seek to limit development on the state park beloved by generations of Atlantans. Olens, in essence, said that marshland — the soggy, but environmentally important zone between land and water — is indeed land. The ruling, ...
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