Category: Georgia (state)

Okefenokee Swamp Lures You in With Its Peaceful, Haunting Beauty

By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service Call it what you will — primordial, mystifying, daunting, backwater or, above all, magnificent in that swamp sort of way — the Okefenokee Swamp is one of Georgia’s most beloved treasures. Covering some 700 square miles in southeastern Georgia and the very northern reaches of Florida, the…


Voters to Determine If Greene Wins Georgia’s 14th District Primary

DALLAS, Georgia—Not far from the voting precinct at the Paulding County Courthouse, Jennifer Strahan shakes hands and talks to voters who are ready to cast their ballots in the May 24 Georgia primary. Among the races that residents in this part of northwest Georgia will decide is whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will advance to…


Microsoft Invests $50 Million in Alcohol-to-Jet Fuel Biorefinery

Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund will invest $50 million in a LanzaJet facility in Georgia to produce jet fuel from ethanol next year, according to a LanzaJet press release. The invested funds will go toward finishing the construction of the Freedom Pines Fuels Plant in Soperton, Georgia, with plans to start producing 10 million gallons of…


Weekend Blast: Gas Now Shut Off to Georgia Apartment Complex

DUNWOODY, Ga.—Gas has been temporarily turned off at an apartment complex in an Atlanta suburb where a building partially collapsed during a weekend explosion, sending four people to the hospital. Atlanta Gas Light said inspectors have identified appliance and fuel line issues within the buildings. Officials said they have been directed by the Dunwoody City…


‘Do You Have the Courage’ to Stand Up for US Constitution, Giuliani Asks Georgia Senate Hearing

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani urged the Georgia state legislature “to stand up to the obligation the Constitution of the United States put on you to save our people from fraud” during a spirited testimony to a Senate subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. Giuliani, New York City’s former mayor who is known for his tough policies…