2022 - Page 7 of 29 - Sightseers' Delight

Chattanooga approves $79.5M baseball stadium despite economic questions over its financing

August 10, 2022 The Center Square

Chattanooga will be getting a new baseball stadium and city officials have called the project a “home run for the community” despite economists’ questions on the numbers touted by stadium supporters.

Attorneys general file brief in federal travel mask mandate case

August 9, 2022 The Center Square

Attorneys general from 23 states have filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court urging judges to uphold a ruling from earlier this year that struck down the mask mandate for interstate travel.

Decision awaited in lawsuit that could block Georgia’s fetal heartbeat law from taking effect

August 9, 2022 Todd DeFeo

A Fulton County judge could soon decide whether to block the state’s fetal heartbeat law from taking effect.

Ten Georgia rural hospitals to receive $9M in stabilization grants from state agency

August 8, 2022 Todd DeFeo

The Georgia Department of Community Health has awarded $9 million in Rural Hospital Stabilization Grants to 10 rural Georgia hospitals.

Flight canceled? Major delay? Rule change could net refund from airline

August 4, 2022 The Center Square

The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a new rule this week requiring airlines to offer customers refunds if their flight is canceled or significantly changed.

Channeling Woody in Okemah

August 4, 2022 Todd DeFeo

Woody Guthrie had a unique way of looking at the world. He lived in a different time that some days seems so far away and so close other days.

Georgia DOT awards $199M in projects, but rising costs could squelch future construction

August 4, 2022 Todd DeFeo

The Georgia Department of Transportation awarded another $199 million in June for road projects statewide, but state officials warned that road project costs are increasing.

Republican governors call Democrat spending bill ‘reckless’

August 4, 2022 The Center Square

Twenty-one Republican governors called the Inflation Reduction Act “another reckless tax and spending spree” in a joint statement released Thursday.

Georgia cities such as Atlanta using COVID-19 relief funds to pay retention bonuses

August 3, 2022 Todd DeFeo

Local governments across Georgia are doling out federal COVID relief money to government employees as retention bonuses.

Tulsa is a perfectly photographable destination

August 3, 2022 Todd DeFeo

Perhaps the true mark of a destination should be how photographable it is.