The newly released regional planning review of the proposed Rivian electric vehicle plant is filled with warnings about risks to the environment and cultural heritage of Morgan County if the facility is built as proposed on land an hour east of Atlanta.
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World-class scientists, feeble broadband: Georgia’s digital divide
Sapelo Island and its state-owned facilities are stark examples of the extent of Georgia’s digital divide. Broadband connection is tenuous at best, and threatened by equipment tumbling into a tidal creek that’s eroding along the edge.
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Six metro areas may lose federal designation in potential setback for rural Georgia
A federal agency is providing the latest sign of fading times in rural Georgia. Six areas could lose their status as federally designated metro areas because their populations may be too small to meet a new threshold.
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Teleworking in rural Georgia to become a more viable option
As the pandemic portends lasting changes in telework patterns, the possibilities of working remotely in rural Georgia may be enhanced as a result of actions already taken this year at the state Capitol.
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Georgia political, business leaders vow to focus on freight, broadband
Georgia’s political and business leadership on Wednesday named freight mobility and rural broadband as top priorities for improvement during remarks at the annual Eggs & Issues breakfast, hosted virtually this year by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
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Rural broadband: Metro Atlanta touched by shortages state’s PSC is to address
Georgia’s woes with rural broadband don’t seem so rural when it turns out the shortages include portions of metro Atlanta’s urban core – in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. By Dec. 15, a plan to help alleviate the shortages is due from the state utilities regulator.
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Georgia Capitol recap: Atlanta airport, rural transit bills fail to move, and more
In news of what the state Legislature didn’t approve this year, put: any takeover or oversight of Atlanta’s airport. Or a tax break for jet fuel. Or a boost to rural transit.
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Georgia bill would set aside funds from Uber, Lyft, taxis for mobility and “innovation”
“Thirty million dollars to $60 million dollars can remove a whole lot of barriers for a whole lot of people in our state,” said state Rep. Kevin Tanner, R-Dawsonville.
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Georgia — and other states — have rural prosperity on their minds. Now how to get it done?
The worry is building among Georgia policymakers that the differences between metro and country are too big, to the detriment of folks in rural Georgia. It’s among lots of states thinking about how to make up the difference.
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Federal funds to cover lion’s share of retooling of dangerous stretch of Ga. 316
A crash-plagued intersection west of Athens, on Ga. 316, is to be made safer through construction of a diamond interchange that has received significant federal funding, the Georgia Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
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Georgia’s rural communities can seek federal funds for broadband
The successful rollout of a rural broadband program in Tennessee, highlighted Tuesday in a federal statement, could serve as a template for some of the upcoming broadband efforts that state lawmakers have supported in Georgia’s rural communities.
