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DETROIT (AP) — A tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle under the Inflation Reduction Act now moving toward final approval in Congress.
But the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for a tax credit that large.
That’s mainly because of the bill’s requirement that, to qualify for the credit, an electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent.
And those rules become more stringent over time — to the point where, in a few years, it’s possible that no EVs would qualify for the tax credit, says John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance of Automotive Innovation, a key industry trade group. As of now, the alliance estimates that about 50 of the 72 electric, hydrogen or plug-in hybrid models that are sold in the United States wouldn’t meet the requirements.
“The $7,500 credit might exist on paper,” Bozzella said in a statement, “but no vehicles will qualify for this purchase over the next few years.”
The idea behind the requirement is to incentivize domestic manufacturing and mining, build a robust battery supply chain in North America and lessen the industry’s dependence on overseas supply chains that could be subject to disruptions.
Production of lithium and other minerals that are used to produce EV batteries is now dominated by China. And the world’s leading producer of cobalt, another component of the EV batteries, is the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Though electric vehicles are part of a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they require metallic elements known as rare earths, found in places like Myanmar, where an Associated Press investigation has found that the push for green energy has led to environmental destruction.
Under the $740 billion economic package, which passed the Senate over the weekend and is nearing approval in the House, the tax credits would take effect next year. For an EV buyer to qualify for the full credit, 40% of the metals used in a vehicle’s battery must come from North America. By 2027, that required threshold would reach 80%.
If the metals requirement isn’t met, the automaker and its buyers would be eligible for half the tax credit, $3,750.
A separate rule would require that half the batteries’ value must be manufactured or assembled in the North America. If not, the rest of the tax credit would be lost. Those requirements also grow stricter each year, eventually reaching 100% in 2029. Still another rule would require that the EV itself be manufactured in North America, thereby excluding from the tax credit any vehicles made overseas.
Automakers generally don’t release where their components come from or how much they cost. But it’s likely that some versions of Tesla’s Model Y SUV and Model 3 car, the Chevrolet Bolt car and SUV and the Ford Mustang Mach E would be eligible for at least part of the credit. All those vehicles are assembled in North America.
The tax credit would be available only to couples with incomes of $300,000 or less or single people with income of $150,000 or less. And any trucks or SUVs with sticker prices above $80,000 or cars above $55,000 wouldn’t be eligible.
There’s also a new $4,000 credit for buyers of used EVs, a provision that could help modest-income households go electric.
The industry says the North American battery supply chain is too small right now to meet the battery component requirements. It has proposed that the measure expand the list of countries whose battery materials would be eligible for the tax credit to nations that maintain defense agreements with the United States, including NATO members.
One component of the bill would require that after 2024, no vehicle would be eligible for the tax credit if its battery components came from China. Most vehicles now have some parts sourced in China, the alliance said.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat and a leading ally of Detroit automakers, complained that Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a critical Democratic vote, had opposed any tax credits for EV purchases.
“I went round-and-round with Senator Manchin, who frankly didn’t support any credit of any kind, so this is a compromise,” Stabenow told reporters Monday. “We’ll work through it and make this as good as we can for our automakers.”
Manchin, long a holdout Democrat who negotiated terms of the deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, had blocked previous climate and social spending proposals.
Manchin’s office declined to comment. He told reporters last week that he wants automakers to “get aggressive and make sure that we’re extracting in North America, we’re processing in North America and we put a line on China. I don’t believe that we should be building a transportation mode on the backs of foreign supply chains. I’m not going to do it.”
Stabenow asserted that the bill was written by people who don’t understand that manufacturers can’t simply flip a switch and create a North American supply chain, though they are working on it. Numerous automakers, including General Motors, Ford, Stellantis, Toyota and Hyundai-Kia, have announced plans to build EV battery plants in the United States.
Katie Sweeney, executive vice president of the National Mining Association, said that industry leaders “like the requirement that minerals for batteries be sourced close to home rather than from our geopolitical rivals.”
“Doing that,” she said, “directly supports high-paying jobs here in the United States … secures our supply chain and really enhances our global competitiveness.”
Stabenow said she remains hopeful that the Biden administration can offer the tax credits next year while it works on the detailed rules for the battery requirements.
“We will continue to work with the automakers and the administration on getting as much common sense into the regulations as possible,” the senator said.
Messages were left Monday seeking comment from the White House and the Treasury Department, which would administer the credits.
Stabenow says she’s pleased that the measure would restore tax credits for General Motors, Tesla and Toyota, all of which hit caps under a previous bill and can no longer offer them. Ford, too, she said, is closing in on an EV cap.
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AP Writers Matthew Daly and Fatima Hussein contributed to this report from Washington.
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Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of shares in Tesla as the billionaire gets his finances in order ahead of his court battle with Twitter.
Musk disclosed in series of regulatory filings that he unloaded about 8 million shares of his company Tesla Inc. in recent days.
“In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,” Musk tweeted late Tuesday.
Musk is by far the largest individual shareholder in both Tesla and Twitter.
Shares of Tesla rose almost 2% before the opening bell Wednesday. Shares of Twitter Inc., up 16% in the past month with most believing Musk faces long-shot odds of success in court, jumped another 3%.
Musk countersued Twitter last week, accusing the company of fraud over his aborted $44 billion acquisition. He claimed that Twitter held back critical information and misled his team about the size of its user base.
Musk alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach of contract and violation of a securities law in Texas, where Musk lives.
Musk offered to buy Twitter earlier this year, then tried to back out of the deal claiming the social platform was infested with a larger numbers of “spam bots” and fake accounts than Twitter had disclosed.
Musk said in the spring that he planned no major sales of his stake in Tesla after lining up financing to acquire Twitter, but Dan Ives, an industry analysts with Wedbush, said Wednesday that “the situation has dramatically changed.”
Wedbush raised it’s target price for shares of Twitter, “With the chances of a Twitter deal now more likely in our opinion and the Street seeing through this poker move by Musk,” Ives wrote to clients.
“We can also see Musk trying to resolve this powder keg situation before the Twitter deal officially heads to court in October,” Ives wrote. “At a minimum, we see Twitter getting a massive settlement from Musk in the $5 billion to $10 billion range that is starting to be factored into the stock.”
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WOODINVILLE, Wash. — Washington’s wine industry is booming, but could wine grapes become the new “apples” of the state?
From cabernet, syrah, pinot gris, rosé, or however you like your pour, Woodinville has glass for you.
“I was the 19th winery in Woodinville when I showed up here in about 2001,” said Mark Ryan McNeilly, owner of Mark Ryan Winery, which has a tasting room in Woodinville.
Woodinville is the hub for great wines in western Washington, and it’s only growing.
“I bet you we have 140 wineries and tasting rooms here in Woodinville, so lots of growth,” said McNeilly.
The growth in Woodinville is only a sampling of the Washington wine industry as a whole.
McNeilly opened Mark Ryan Winery in 1999 and has since watched as the local industry has gone global. He returned this week from a trip to London where interest in Washington wines is in peak season.
“People were not only excited about the fact that we were there, but they knew about Washington state, they knew about Red Mountain and Walla Walla,” McNeilly said. “So, it felt good to show up and have these, a really good group of wine buyers looking for the wines that we’re making.”
With the growth in the wine industry, could grapes soon outpace apples as the fruit of Washington?
According to data given to KING 5 by the United States Department of Agriculture, apples took up 172,000 bearing acres in Washington in 2021. For wine grapes, it was 57,000 acres.
In terms of value, in 2021, the value of utilized production for Washington apples was $2.1 billion. Wine grapes were far behind at $262 million.
But it’s when those grapes are turned to wine that calls this all into question.
According to data from the Washington State Wine Commission, wine-generated revenues in Washington state were $3.9 billion in 2020. However, that includes revenue from wine tourism in Washington as well.
“It’s a little surprising to hear that, but then I drive back and forth all over the state of Washington, and it’s apples and it’s grapes. So, we see a lot of both,” McNeilly said. “I think there’s more acres of apples planted, but I think the revenue is greater for wine.”
There’s not as much of a tourism route for apples, and that’s what is bringing in the revenue for wine.
“You can’t sell an apple for $100,” said McNeilly.
With travel limited through the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism revenue was lower than normal. But McNeilly said they’ve never sold more wine than they are now, and tourism is picking back up.
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Cybersecurity Opportunity Act signed into law
Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff's Cybersecurity Opportunity Act is now law.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff’s Cyber Security Opportunity Act is now law.
According to Senator Ossoff, it expands cybersecurity education in historically black colleges.
President Joe Biden signed the measure Tuesday.
The senator said the bipartisan legislation boosts job opportunities and education for HBCU students.
“Malware, ransomware, these risk our personal privacy,” Ossoff said. “They risk small businesses and our economic security, critical infrastructure and our national security, and we have a need for more qualified people to enter the cybersecurity field.”
The act also creates the Doctor David Satcher Cybersecurity Education Grant Program, named after the former U.S. Surgeon General and Morehouse School of Medicine dean.
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Jones County Sheriff’s Office cracks down on underage drinking
The Jones County Sheriff's Office is cracking down on businesses selling alcohol to anyone under 21.
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Jones County Sheriff’s Office is cracking down on businesses selling alcohol to anyone under 21.
Lt. Kenny Gleaton says investigators conducted a compliance check at 19 of the county’s convenience and grocery stores.
The sheriff’s office sent a minor under investigator supervision to attempt to purchase alcohol at the establishments.
According the sheriff’s office, clerks at nine of the stores received a citation for selling alcohol to minors.
“We’re disappointed and shocked that the problem was this widespread,” Lt. Gleaton said. “Hopefully those owners and operators will address the issue with their employee, and I feel very confident that those store operators will address it properly.”
The Texaco gas station of Gray was one of the locations cited. Manager Kiki Alexander says this is unacceptable.
“There’s no excuse,” Alexander said. “You have to check ID, you have to check the date, the year, and even if they’re a day away from their 21st birthday, they still can’t slide.”
She’s working with employees to make sure they thoroughly check for identification.
“I am a mom, and I wouldn’t want anyone doing that to my son even if he’s 16 or 17,” she said. “The legal age is 21.”
Clerks who received a citation will have to appear in court.
The following locations were found to be out of compliance. Citations were issued to the clerks who made the sales.
- NBM Plaza, 3437 Joycliff Road
- West Gray BP, 295 West Clinton Street
- Harvey`s, 208 West Clinton Street
- Marathon, 180 West Clinton Street
- Handy Andy Food Mart, 148 West Clinton Street
- Lake Mart BP, 2810 Gray Highway
- K & A Citgo, 1359 Highway 22
- Texaco, 249 Highway 22
- C & J`s Supermarket, 101 Highway 49
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Macon-Bibb adds airport director position
The Middle Georgia Regional Airport will soon have a director in charge.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Middle Georgia Regional Airport will soon have a director in charge.
Macon-Bibb County Commissioners voted Tuesday to approve adding the position to the organizational chart.
The position would fall under the County Manager’s office. The budget for the position, including wages, taxes and benefits, would equal up to $200,000.
Commissioner Elaine Lucas says she feels the move is long overdue.
“The county it seems to me has always needed to have a director in that position,” Commissioner Lucas said. “Because it seemed like we were just turning our airport over.”
TBI Airport Management runs the airport, and the county is negotiating a new contract with TBI that will reduce the amount of staff the company has there.
Mayor Lester Miller says this vote gives the county more control over the airport.
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More clouds expected for our Wednesday
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – We will see more cloud cover today than so far this week.
Today
It was a mostly cloudy morning around Middle Georgia, and most of those clouds are still with us as we get ready to head into the lunchtime hours. The majority of our clouds are upper level cirrus clouds, and while they are thin, these ones are not letting a whole lot of sun through. They will not bring us any rain, however. We should see them break up a bit as we head into the later parts of the afternoon, however mid level cloud fields will still populate our skies. Highs this afternoon are again in the lower 90s with heat indices reaching into the upper 90s. Ambient winds will continue to feed in from the southwest at around 5 mph.
Storm chances will remain low through the afternoon similar to what we have seen so far this week. One or two may fire up during lunchtime, but we should begin to see more widespread scattered storm activity once we get closer to supper. Also like the last couple of days these storms are likely to stick with us into tonight, making for some good sleeping weather.
Tonight the mostly cloudy conditions will hang with us as some storms persist. Most of the rain should stop by midnight, but a couple of light showers will still be possible after that. Ambient winds will continue to blow from the southwest at about 5 mph, and lows will drop into the lower 70s and upper 60s.
Tomorrow
We will see another cloudy morning before some sun returns in the afternoon for our Thursday. Our rain chances look to jump up a bit tomorrow as a cold front continues its approach from the north and low pressure develops over Louisiana to the southwest. A weak warm front being propelled by the low in Louisiana will likely clash with the cold front in northern and Middle Georgia tomorrow in the evening, making for numerous scattered storms. Highs will again be in the lower 90s with heat indices in the upper 90s.
Storms will persist into the early overnight hours before they taper off. Some rain is likely to continue into the early morning hours of Friday, however it should be light. Lows will be in the lower 70s and upper 60s, and the ambient wind will still come in from the southwest at about 5 mph.
Friday and The Weekend
The cold front is anticipated to finish its pass through Middle Georgia on Friday, meaning we will not be out of the woods with our rain chances until Saturday. Storm chances will be at their most widespread of the week as a result of the cold front passing. Once again they will most likely take place in the evening and early overnight hours. Highs will be in the upper 80s and lower 90s in the afternoon, however once the cold front passes the wind will shift towards the northwest (even if only for a short while), allowing for temperatures to begin to cool. Overnight lows for Friday into Saturday will be in the upper 60s across the board as the humidity drops for a bit.
Saturday and Sunday will see ample sunshine with little chance for rain, largely due to the stable air mass that the cold front will bring with it. Lows will be in the mid to upper 60s both nights over the weekend as the humidity stays down, and highs will mainly be in the upper 80s. We will see the humidity begin to return Sunday night with highs in the lower 90s making a comeback by Monday.
As for the tropics, Invest 97-L has a 30% of development in the next 5 days. It is currently off to the southwest of the Cape Verde islands.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Perry Restaurant Week starts August 12
Whether you're going to your favorite lunch spot or wanting to try a restaurant you've never tried, Perry Restaurant Week is the perfect time to do it.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Perry Restaurant Week started August 12.
Whether you’re going to your favorite lunch spot or wanting to try a restaurant you’ve never tried, Perry Restaurant Week is the perfect time to do it.
Maggie Schuyler, Perry Chamber President and CEO, says participating restaurants won’t be doing specials this year. Instead, they’ll highlight the best items on their menus.
“This is an opportunity for the Perry Chamber to highlight our restaurateurs,” Schuyler said. “Whether they’re a dine-in business, a take out business, or offer a food item to our local community, we are helping support local, dine local and shop local with restaurant week.”
Michael Tomlin, owner and operator of Clover Wine Merchant, says they offer dinner on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. They also offer wine and charcuterie boards Tuesday through Saturday.
Tomlin says he’s excited to show off what they have to offer.
“We bring the big proteins, the Chilean sea bass, whether it be rack of lamb, or Chateaubriand 10-ounce cut of filet mignon,” Tomlin said. “We want people to have a good meal at the end of the day.”
Adam Eubanks, Corporate Chef for Stripling’s General Store, says they’ll showcase their meat counter and grab and go items. They’ll also have a vendor showcase on August 20, where people can get free samples.
“Being that we’re not a traditional restaurant, we’re excited to be able to showcase our products for people who are local,” Eubanks said. “Then hopefully for people that are traveling through Georgia, we can be a good stop for people who are traveling right off 75.”
Tomlin says the fun thing about Perry Restaurant Week is it encourages people to go out and try different cuisines.
“Perry’s the perfect example of the past three years and more things opening, and we’re just super excited about all that’s happening down here,” Tomlin said. “And there’s even more restaurants that are going to be opening in a month, so the more the better.”
Perry Restaurant Week begins Friday, August 12 and runs through Sunday, August 21.
Be sure to save your receipts if you participate. You can turn them in to Planters First Bank or the Perry Chamber for a chance to win $150 in gift cards to local restaurants.
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Portion of Macon’s Anthony Road named for educator
A portion of Anthony Road will be renamed Robert Louis Scott Boulevard following a vote this week by Macon-Bibb Commissioners.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A portion of Anthony Road will be renamed Robert Louis Scott Boulevard following a vote this week by Macon-Bibb Commissioners.
Commissioners approved the renaming of road during their committee of the whole meeting.
Scott was a music teacher at Ballard Hudson High School from 1956 to 1970.
“The history of Mr. Martin, the history of education being important, that’s what they’re requesting,” District 8 Commissioner Virgil Watkins said. “They’re organizing a way that they know their history, and they want to see it honored in places where they live and what’s relevant to them, not a name they don’t know and have no regard for.”
Anthony Road was originally named after ER Anthony, a local vineyard owner, who died in 1899.
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Sen. Ossoff making push for better fitting body armor for female military members
Senator Jon Ossoff is making a push in the senate for better fitting body armor for women in the military.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Senator Jon Ossoff is making a push in the senate for better fitting body armor for women in the military.
After visiting Fort Stewart and speaking with soldiers, he said he received complaints about ill-fitting chest plates and other body armor.
“I always meet with junior enlisted personnel and not just the command, because that’s how you learn what the young men and women who are serving in the armed forces really need,” he said.
Senator Ossoff says he hopes to resolve the issue by next fiscal year.
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Stacey Abrams tests positive for COVID
(41NBC/WMGT) — Stacey Abrams has tested positive for COVID-19.
Wednesday morning, on August 10th, Abrams posted on social media saying that her daily COVID test came back positive. Abrams says before her speech the day before, she tested negative, and that she’s vaccinated and boosted.
Abrams says she’s experiencing mild symptoms, and that she’ll be spending the next few days at home meeting with people by Zoom and phone to continue her campaign.
I’ll be spending the next few days at home, meeting with folks by Zoom and by phone, working hard to win this race for all Georgians. I look forward to getting back on the road and meeting folks across Georgia soon.
Missed the speech? Watch it here: https://t.co/iSx59buKfZ
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) August 10, 2022
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Trump says he took the Fifth in NY civil investigation
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he testified under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings, the former president said in a statement.
Trump arrived at Attorney General Letitia James’ Manhattan offices in a motorcade shortly before 9 a.m., before announcing more than an hour later that he “declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.”
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question,” the statement said. “When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.”
As vociferous as Trump has been in defending himself in written statements and on the rally stage, legal experts said answering questions in a deposition was risky because anything he said could potentially be used against him in a parallel criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney. The Fifth Amendment protects people from being compelled to be a witness against themselves in a criminal case.
Messages seeking comment were left with James’ office.
Wednesday’s events unfolded as a flurry of legal activity surrounds the former president. Just days before, FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as part of an unrelated federal probe into whether he took classified records when he left the White House.
New York’s investigation, led by James, involves allegations that Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misled lenders and tax authorities about the value of prized assets like golf courses and skyscrapers.
“My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides,” Trump wrote beforehand on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded. “Banana Republic!”
In May, James’ office said that it was nearing the end of an investigation against Trump, his company or both. The Republican’s deposition — a legal term for sworn testimony that’s not given in court — was one of the few remaining missing pieces.
Once the investigation wraps up, the attorney general could decide to bring a lawsuit seeking financial penalties against Trump or his company, or even a ban on them being involved in certain types of businesses.
Two of Trump’s adult children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, testified in recent days, two people familiar with the matter said. The people were not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity. It’s unclear whether they invoked the Fifth Amendment during their depositions. When their brother Eric Trump sat for a deposition in the same investigation in 2020, he invoked the Fifth more than 500 times, according to court papers.
James, a Democrat, has said in court filings that her office has uncovered “significant” evidence that Trump’s company “used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations to obtain a host of economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions.”
James alleges the Trump Organization exaggerated the value of its holdings to impress lenders or misstated what land was worth to slash its tax burden.
The company even exaggerated the size of Trump’s Manhattan penthouse, saying it was nearly three times its actual size — a difference in value of about $200 million, James’ office said.
Trump has denied the allegations, contending that seeking the best valuations is a common practice in the real estate industry. He’s also accused James, who is Black, of racism in pursuing the investigation.
People generally don’t have a constitutional right to avoid questions in a civil lawsuit, but Trump’s legal team fought James’ attempt to question him for months, arguing that the district attorney’s parallel investigation created a risk he could face criminal charges. Lawyers in James’ office have assisted with that criminal investigation.
Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that James’ office had “the clear right” to question Trump and other principals in his company — though Trump also had a right to decline to answer questions because of the criminal case.
That criminal probe had appeared to be progressing toward a possible criminal indictment, but stalled after a new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, took office in January: A grand jury that had been hearing evidence disbanded. The top prosecutor who had been handling the probe resigned after Bragg raised questions internally about the viability of the case.
The district attorney’s investigation has already led to criminal charges against the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, who are accused of tax fraud related to fringe benefits offered by the company.
Weisselberg and the company’s lawyers are scheduled to be in court Friday to argue that the case should be dismissed.
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BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed Thursday after Wall Street benchmarks closed at three-month highs as investors cheered a report showing inflation cooled more than expected in July.
U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices also advanced.
The U.S. government said Wednesday that consumer inflation jumped 8.5% in July from a year earlier. But that was down from June’s four-decade high of 9.1%.
Germany’s DAX edged 0.2% lower, to 13,674.98, while in Paris the CAC 40 added 0.1% to 6,531.38. Britain’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.1% to 7,498.34. The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.2% higher.
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 surged 2.1% on expectations that slower inflation will mean the Federal Reserve may moderate its interest rates hikes. Technology stocks, cryptocurrencies and other investments that have been among the year’s biggest losers due to the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes led the way.
The Nasdaq composite, whose many high-growth and expensive-looking stocks have been particularly vulnerable to interest rates, jumped 2.9% while the Dow industrials advanced 1.6%.
Asian markets also took heart. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 2.4% on Thursday to 20,082.43, while the Shanghai Composite index gained 1.6%, to 3,281.67. The Kospi in Seoul rose 1.7% to 2,523.78. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 climbed 1.6% to 7,071.00. Taiwan’s Taiex was up 1.7%.
Tokyo’s markets were closed for a holiday.
In Thailand, the SET gave up 0.2% after the country’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 0.75% a day earlier. The Southeast Asian country’s economy has been hard hit by the pandemic, which ravaged its all-important tourism sector.
Despite the improved U.S. inflation reading, analysts warned the war on higher prices is not over.
“It’s of course great to see the latest inflation print come lower-than-expected, but first, one data point doesn’t make a trend, and we had a similar surprise earlier this year, but then inflation spiked to fresh multi-decade highs the following month,” Ipek Ozkardeskaya of Swissquote Bank said in a report.
She noted that softer energy prices were the main factor tempering inflation, while prices for food, housing and wages pushed higher.
Gasoline prices paid by American drivers dipped to just under the $4 mark for the first time in more than five months — good news for consumers who are struggling with high prices for many other essentials.
The AAA auto club said the national average for a gallon of regular was $3.99 on Thursday. The shopping app GasBuddy reported that the national average was already down to $3.98 on Wednesday.
The inflation data encouraged traders to scale back bets for how much the Fed will raise interest rates at its next meeting. Interest rates help set where prices go across financial markets and higher rates tend to pull down prices for everything from stocks to commodities to crypto.
Other reports this week will show how inflation is doing at the wholesale level and whether U.S. households are still ratcheting down their expectations for coming inflation, an influential data point for Fed officials.
Recession worries have built as the highest inflation in 40 years squeezes households and corporations around the world. Wall Street is closely watching to see if the Fed can succeed in hitting the brakes on the economy and cooling inflation without veering into a recession.
The Federal Reserve will get a few more highly anticipated reports before its next announcement on interest rates, on Sept. 21. They could also alter its stance. Those include data on hiring trends across the economy, due Sept. 2, and the next update on consumer inflation, coming on Sept. 13.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude oil 19 cents to $92.12 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It gained $1.43 to $91.93 on Wednesday.
Brent crude, the basis for international pricing, picked up 15 cents to $97.55.
The U.S. dollar slipped to 132.62 Japanese yen from 132.93 yen late Wednesday. The euro rose to $1.0326 from $1.0300.
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For the first time since early March, the average cost for a gallon of gas in the U.S. is below $4 a gallon. According to AAA data, gas hit an average of $3.99 a gallon on Thursday after two months of declining prices.
Gas prices are down from a peak of $5.01 a gallon on June 14. Prices remain high compared to this time a year ago when gas was $3.18 a gallon.
California and Hawaii are the only states where gas remains above $5 a gallon. Texas has the lowest average price for gas at $3.49 a gallon.
Demand for gas has declined this summer amid high prices. Earlier this week, AAA compared the current market to July 2020, when many Americans were not traveling due to the pandemic.
There have also been rising domestic and international oil supplies, which helps bring down the cost.
“Oil is the primary ingredient in gasoline, so less expensive oil is helpful in taming pump prices,” said Andrew Gross, AAA spokesperson. “Couple that with fewer drivers fueling up, and you have a recipe for gas prices to keep easing.”
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Jeremy Edwards of the Houston County Bears
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Jeremy Edwards of the Houston County Bears.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Jeremy Edwards of the Houston County Bears. After winning back-to-back championships with Warner Robins as the offensive coordinator, coach Edwards now brings his winning strategies to the Bears program.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from August 9, 2022
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Jones County Sheriff’s Office cracks down on underage drinking
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here.
Jones County Sheriff’s Office cracks down on underage drinking
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Mercer hires Ryan Danehy to head the men’s lacrosse program
The Mercer men's lacrosse program has had one winning season since 2011.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After two-year head coach Chad Surman stepped down a month ago, Mercer University has gone ahead and hired Ryan Danehy to lead the men’s lacrosse program.
Coach Danehy has spent more than 15 years in collegiate, professional and international lacrosse and was most recently at Bucknell University as the assistant coach, which became one of the main reasons he accepted this opportunity since Bucknell faced Mercer in the first game of last season.
“When you play an opponent, you get a deep dive. Since they were our first opponent, it’s like anything else; you’re preparing for them for basically a month. So for us, or for myself, you kind of see the foundation that this team has. And then fast forward eight months later, and all of the sudden being named head coach of the program, it was a great opportunity,” said Danehy.
The men’s lacrosse program has had one winning season since 2011, that too during the shortened COVID-19 season. So Coach Danehy and the Bears have plenty of room for improvement.
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Reward offered in murder case of two brothers
FITZGERALD, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Fitzgerald Police Department are offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction for the homicides of Kevin and Cedric Kind.
The Kind Brothers were found deceased in the early morning hours of July 13, 2019, in Fitzgerald Georgia.
Anyone with information is asked to please call the GBI Investigative Office in Perry, GA at (478) 987-4545 or the Fitzgerald Police Department (229) 426-5000. Anonymous tips can be made via the GBI Tip line at 1-800-597-8477, by downloading the See Something, Send Something app, or on the GBI website at https://investigative-gbi.georgia.gov/gbi-tip-line.
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Stormy trend continues Thursday
Showers and storms will be staying in the forecast through the end of the week, before a cold front brings dry weather for the weekend
We saw another line of showers and storms roll through Middle Georgia this evening, that brought heavy rain and some gusty winds.
Showers will linger over the area for the next few hours, with patchy fog developing through Thursday morning.
Mostly to partly cloudy skies are expected Thursday before showers and storms push in from the south (again).
Highs will warm into the upper 80s and low 90s by the afternoon, depending on what time we see the rain.
Like the past few days, a few storms could be strong/severe.
By Friday a cold front will be pushing into Middle Georgia signaling our next change in the stormy weather pattern.
Storms are likely through Friday evening as the front pushes south and into Florida.
This front will finally usher in some dry air to the area and a break from the everyday thunderstorms.
We will enjoy a nice weekend with just a few showers possible through Monday.
By Tuesday of next week we will see a return of high humidity and scattered afternoon storms, so enjoy this short break for the weekend.
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For the tenth year, El Informador will be handing out free backpacks and school supplies to any child in need in West Michigan during their Back to School Celebration.
The goal is to give kids K-12 backpacks, school supplies, food, games, and any other gifts to help them achieve their academic potential. The event will also have other giveaways and games for the whole family.
El Informador’s Backpack and Back to School Celebration will take place on August 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The drive will take place at City High Middle School, 1720 Plainfield Ave NW.
For more information, visit elinformadorusa.com.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sesame Place has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees following a $25 million class-action lawsuit alleging multiple incidents of discrimination after outcry sparked from a video of a costumed character snubbing two 6-year-old Black girls went viral online.
The Sesame Street-themed park, operated by SeaWorld Parks, in a statement Tuesday said that all employees will be mandated to participate in training created to address bias, promote inclusion and prevent discrimination by the end of September.
The training — which was developed by civil rights educators — will also be integrated into onboarding for all new employees and “will become a regular part of our training and workforce development,” the statement said.
Outrage ensued online in July when a video went viral showing a Sesame Street character waving off the two Black girls during a parade at Sesame Place. Jodi Brown, the mother of one of the girls, posted the video on Instagram.
President of Sesame Place Philadelphia Cathy Valeriano said the park has already begun implementing temporary measures while a review of the park continues.
“We are committed to making sure our guests feel welcome, included and enriched by their visits to our park,” Valeriano said.
SeaWorld’s CEO, Marc Swanson, is scheduled to meet with the Brown family alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday to “address the deficiencies we have noted from this most recent press release,” said B’Ivory LaMarr, the family’s attorney.
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A third candidate for public office has come to forward to say a sheriff on Florida’s Space Coast offered help in getting a job in exchange for leaving a race and backing his favored candidate.
Kimberly Musselman, an assistant state attorney in Brevard County, told Florida Today she was asked by Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey to bow out of her race for county judge and endorse a candidate backed by him. In exchange, the sheriff said he could use his influence to help her become the district’s top prosecutor, she said.
After she refused, Ivey urged some of her biggest donors to drop their support, Musselman told Florida Today.
“My donors dried up real quick,” Musselman said.
In response to an inquiry Wednesday, Tod Goodyear, a spokesperson for the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, said in an email, “We are not commenting at this time.”
Two other candidates for public office have made similar allegations to Florida Today.
Cocoa Beach police officer Chris Hattaway said the Republican sheriff asked him to step aside for former state Rep. Tom Goodson, another candidate in a county commission race. Shawn Overdorf, a former school resource officer, told a similar story about his race for school board. In exchange, both candidates were offered jobs in Goodson’s office if he won, Florida Today reported.
When contacted by Florida Today, Goodson denied involvement with any efforts to pressure candidates out of the election and said he had not spoken with Ivey about hiring anyone.
Ivey has gained national attention in recent years due to his weekly “ Wheel of Fugitive ” videos which feature the sheriff spinning a wheel with photos of 10 of the county’s most wanted.
“Everybody watches it. Even the fugitives watch it” to see who becomes “fugitive of the week,” said Ivey, who was elected sheriff in 2012.
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Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin gets stamp of approval for stroke care
Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin is getting the stamp of approval on the care it gives to stroke patients.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin is getting the stamp of approval on the care it gives to stroke patients.
The hospital is designated as a Remote Treatment Stroke Center by the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Office of EMS and Trauma.
Lana Maddox, the Stroke Coordinator for the hospital, says time is a matter of life or death when it comes to stroke.
This designation proves the hospital can get stroke patients in quickly to give them the initial steps of care.
The hospital has also implemented a tele-neurology system.
“We can triage them, get them to CT, and see if they need to have life-saving medications or altering medications given, and we can start that process here,” Maddox said. “Then we work closely with our surrounding hospitals, and we can try to get them immediately somewhere else.”
If you think you or someone you know is having a stroke, remember the acronym B.E.F.A.S.T. It stands for balance, eyes, face, arm, speech and time. You’ll want to check if one side of a person’s body is showing signs of weakness. When in doubt, call 911.
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Bibb deputies: Juvenile in critical condition following Thursday afternoon shooting
Investigators are asking for the public's help in finding three people who brought the victim to the hospital. All three are wanted for questioning.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A juvenile is in critical condition following a shooting Thursday afternoon.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says deputies got a call about a shooting on Ward Street just before 4 p.m. A short time later, a second call came in stating that a juvenile male, who had been shot, was dropped off at the hospital by a personal vehicle.
“Once the juvenile was dropped off at the hospital, the driver inside of the vehicle fled west on Pine Street,” the release said.
Deputies say the driver, a female, was last seen wearing a fluorescent green t-shirt with dark shorts.
Two other males who had been in the vehicle were last seen walking toward Forsyth Street and then toward Spring Street.
One of the two males who got out of the vehicle was last seen wearing a gray shirt, dark-colored shorts and white tennis shoes. The other male was wearing black pants with black shoes and did not have on a shirt.
Investigators are asking for the public’s help in finding all three people who brought the victim to the hospital. All three are wanted for questioning.
The white vehicle that brought the victim to the hospital has large paint chips missing from the hood, front fenders and trunk area. A photo is attached.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have information.
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Bleckley County School bus involved in traffic accident Thursday morning
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A Bleckley County school bus got in an accident Thursday morning.
According to a social media post by Bleckley County Schools, a two-car accident at a bypass caused a car to hit a bus that was stopped at a red light.
Two students in one of the cars and two students on the bus were taken to the hospital for observation, though no serious injuries have been reported. Parents of all the students on the bus are being contacted.
Stay with 41NBC for more information as it becomes available.
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BS Report: August 11th – The Braves Young Talent
A lot of new players on the Braves team are making a name for themselves.
A lot of new players on the Braves team are making a name for themselves. Bill Shanks explains why these young-bloods on the roster are a throw-back to the 90’s.
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Dooly County High School and K-8 Academy closed Friday due to water main burst
VIENNA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Two schools in the Dooly County School System will be closed to students, faculty, and staff on Friday, August 12th, due to a water main leak in Pinehurst.
Dooly County Schools say that in order to maintain consistency across the school system, Dooly K8 Academy and Dooly County High school will be closed.
The system says students may receive assignments from teachers to complete on Friday, and that school leaders will provide direction to faculty and staff regarding work responsibilities.
Dooly County Schools posted about the break on Wednesday, saying the water could not be tested until August 11th, making it unsafe to drink, cook, or wash hands in until it could be cleared.
Stay with 41NBC for more updates as information is released.
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Storm chances climbing ahead of the weekend
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The number of scattered storms we will see in the afternoon and evening is climbing ahead of the weekend.
Today
Much like yesterday we will see plenty of clouds over Middle Georgia for most of the afternoon. A few pockets of sunshine are likely, but the overall cloudier conditions are helping us to stay cooler. Highs around the region are in the mid to upper 80s today with heat indices climbing into the lower 90s. Ambient winds are still blowing from the southwest, however they have a bit more speed now at 5-10 mph.
When it comes to our storm chances, we are finally seeing them climb for not just the evening but the afternoon as well. A weak warm front associated with a weak low pressure over Louisiana is fueling our storm chances for today. We will likely see them begin as a few isolated showers during the lunchtime hours, and then as we push later into the afternoon we will see more thunderstorms. Storms will remain possible all throughout the afternoon and evening, and some may last into tonight.
Overall our storm chances are lower tonight than what they have been in recent nights, but we could still see a few showers after midnight. Outside of that skies will remain overcast as lows drop into the upper 60s and lower 70s, and the ambient wind will continue to feed in from the southwest at 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow
We will see our fair share of clouds again around Middle Georgia tomorrow, also with plenty of rain chances. Highs will once again be kept cool, only reaching into the mid to upper 80s. Heat indices will likely still reach the lower 90s for most of the region. This time the storms will be brought in by a cold front from the north. Most of the storms are likely in the afternoon and evening hours, but some could persist into the overnight hours as well.
Overnight we should begin to see the clouds clear out for most of the region, and rain chances should cut off by about midnight. Lows will drop into the upper 60s for most of the region, however the cold front may not make it all the way through our southern counties tomorrow, so some of them may still only drop into the lower 70s.
The Weekend
Saturday will be pleasant for most of Middle Georgia, however a second cold front will likely bring some storm activity to our southern counties in the afternoon. Highs will be in the mid to upper 80s around the region, and lows will drop into the mid to upper 60s.
Sunday should be a pleasant day across the board as mostly sunny skies take over across the region. Only some upper level cirrus clouds and a couple of mid level cumulus clouds are likely to form. Highs will be in the upper 80s and lower 90s with lows in the mid to upper 60s. The humidity will be lower as well while we are in the immediate wake of the cold front.
Come Monday things will begin to get hotter again, however the humidity will remain a bit lower for at least the first half of next week. Rain chances will likely begin to climb towards the middle of next week.
As for the tropics, the NHC is now giving Invest 97-L a near 0% chance for development over the next 5 days. Upper level wind shear will likely prevent it from organizing, and we will continue to wait for anything major to develop in the Atlantic Basin.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.
How that data is being used and protected has led to growing public concern and officials’ outrage. And now federal regulators are looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security.
The Federal Trade Commission announced the initiative Thursday, seeking public comment on the effects of companies’ data collection and the potential benefit of new rules to protect consumers’ privacy.
The FTC defines commercial surveillance as “the business of collecting, analyzing and profiting from information about people.”
In Congress, bipartisan condemnation of the data power of Meta — the parent of Facebook and Instagram — Google and other tech giants that have earned riches by aggregating consumer information used by online advertisers, has brought national data privacy legislation to its closest point ever to passage.
Around the country, parents’ concern has deepened over the impact of social media on children. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist, stunned Congress and the public last fall when she exposed internal company research showing apparent serious harm to some teens from Instagram. Those revelations were followed by senators grilling executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat about what they’re doing to ensure young users’ safety in the wake of suicides and other harms to teens attributed by their parents to their usage of the platforms.
As concerns rise, social media platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are adding new features they say will make their services safer and more age appropriate. But the changes rarely address the algorithms pushing endless content that can drag anyone, not just teens, into harmful rabbit holes.
The Democratic members of the FTC said Thursday it’s imperative for Congress to pass a new law, but that the agency was taking action in the meantime by issuing the notice of proposed rules.
“Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of data breaches, deception, manipulation and other abuses,” the FTC said..
Agency officials noted that the FTC has brought hundreds of enforcement actions against companies over the last two decades for violations of privacy and data security. They included cases involving the sharing of health-related data with third parties, the collection and sharing of sensitive TV viewing data for targeted advertising, and failure to put in adequate security measures to protect sensitive data such as Social Security numbers.
However, the officials said, the FTC’s ability to deter illegal conduct is limited because it generally lacks authority to seek financial penalties for initial violations of law. That could change if the comprehensive privacy legislation were to clear Congress.
“Firms now collect personal data on individuals at a massive scale and in a stunning array of contexts,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in an online news conference. “Our goal today is to begin building a robust public record to inform whether the FTC should issue rules to address commercial surveillance and data security practices, and what those rules should potentially look like.”
“We are very, very eager to hear from the public,” Khan said.
Topics of interest could include how companies use algorithms and automated systems to analyze the information they collect, and the potential effects of various data practices.
Khan, who was an outspoken critic of Big Tech as a law professor, was appointed by President Joe Biden last year to head the FTC — an independent agency that polices competition and consumer protection as well as digital privacy.
The rulemaking proposal was adopted in a 3-2 vote by the five FTC commissioners. Khan and the other two Democrats voted to issue it, while the two Republicans opposed it.
On Tuesday, Snapchat introduced new parental controls in what it calls the “Family Center” — a tool that lets parents see who their teens are messaging, though not the content of the messages themselves. Both parents and their children have to opt into the service.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy’s inflationary pressures cooled last month.
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.5% in July. It was the first monthly drop since April 2020 and was down from a sharp 1% increase from May to June.
The easing of wholesale inflation suggests that consumers could get some relief from relentless inflation in the coming months. The wholesale report follows government data Wednesday that showed that consumer inflation was unchanged from June to July — the first flat figure after 25 straight months of increases.
Yet economists caution that it’s still too early to say that inflation is headed steadily lower.
“The July deceleration … is a move in the right direction,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. “But producer costs continue to rise at a rapid pace, well above target.”
Wholesale food prices rose 1% from June to July, a sign that grocery prices will likely keep rising in the coming months. The wholesale costs of eggs, beef and vegetables all jumped.
Trucking freight costs, though, fell 0.3%, evidence that some supply chain snarls are easing.
Inflation at the wholesale level still jumped 9.8% in July compared with a year earlier, suggesting that inflation will remain at painful levels for months to come. That was down from a year-over-year surge of 11.3% in June — near a four-decade high — and was the smallest annual rise in eight months.
Thursday’s report showed that wholesale gas prices tumbled 16.7% from June to July, a sign that retail prices at the pump will continue to decline this month and likely into September. Consumers are already seeing steady reductions: Gas prices fell below $4 a gallon, on average, on Thursday for the first time in five months.
The milder inflation data, and last month’s unexpectedly robust hiring that helped lower the unemployment rate to a half-century low of 3.5%, have provided President Joe Biden with some positive economic news after months of accelerating price spikes hammered his approval ratings. Congressional Republicans have made rising inflation a major line of attack in the upcoming midterm elections.
And the Federal Reserve has embarked on its fastest pace of interest rate hikes since the early 1980s in an effort to quell inflation, and will likely keep raising borrowing costs for the rest of this year. Its short-term rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018.
Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed would need to see a series of declining inflation readings before it would consider pausing its rate increases. The Fed could announce a third straight three-quarter point rate hike when it next meets in late September or instead carry out a less drastic half-point hike.
Thursday’s producer price data captures inflation at an earlier stage of production and can sometimes signal where consumer prices are headed. It also feeds into the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, which is called the personal consumption expenditures price index.
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Bibb Schools Superintendent meets with local business leaders
The Bibb County School District is partnering with the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce to talk to businesses about how to impact students.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- The Bibb County School District is partnering with the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce to talk to businesses about how to impact students.
Superintendent Dr. Dan Sims met with business leaders Thursday to show how they can provide opportunities to students.
He also addressed how businesses can offer student mentorship programs.
Sims says this is a great way to show students the great things Macon has to offer.
“All the things that we are doing right now is drumming up the energy, telling our own story in terms of people getting to see Macon-Bibb County and Bibb County public schools for what it is,” he said. “This is a great city. We have some great educators.”
Sims says he encourages local business to keep in touch with students about available job opportunities.
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Bibb Sheriff’s Office provides update on ShotSpotter technology
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is providing an update on the ShotSpotter technology that's been in place since February.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is providing an update on the ShotSpotter technology that’s been in place since February.
The technology helps identify gunfire incidents and provides audio alerts when gunfire happens.
Sgt. Santel Smith with Crime Analysis says it’s helped deputies find shootings they may not have been able to find before.
“With ShotSpotter, it helps us go to that area within 300 meters,” Smith said. “We’re able to find either people injured or evidence of crime taking place.”
The sheriff’s office says it got 433 alerts in July.
ShotSpotters works by strategically placing acoustic sensors on buildings and lamp posts. Ron Teachman, Director of Public Safety Solutions with ShotSpotters, says the system can triangulate where gunfire happens. It can even differentiate between gunfire and other loud bangs.
“We differentiate by the machine classification,” he said. “There’s a filter in the machine. The algorithms filter out most of the noise, but then we send every probability to a human for review.”
Teachman says the technology also identifies how many shots were fired, if there’s more than one shooter, what kind of weapon is being used and if the shooter is moving.
“That gives law enforcement an accurate description as they’re being dispatched,” he said. “So you might want to send more law enforcement personnel if there’s multiple shooters with a full automatic.”
The ShotSpotter technology covers seven square miles. The sheriff’s office says it covers most of west and south Bibb County. They determined the coverage area by studying the last ten years of crimes that involved shootings.
Smith says ShotSpotters also helps them cut down on response time.
“We are in the area, and at some point we are going to capture those individuals,” Smith said. “We have made several arrests off ShotSpotter. because deputies were able to respond quickly enough to find individuals in possession of firearms who should not be in possession of firearms.”
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City of Forsyth water customers dealing with discolored water
City of Forsyth water customers are dealing with discolored water, and the city is working to resolve the issue.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – City of Forsyth water customers are dealing with discolored water, and the city is working to resolve the issue.
A City of Forsyth Facebook post Thursday said the discoloration is due to an increase in manganese levels in the water system.
“Manganese is not a health risk but does discolor the water and will stain clothing and plumbing,” the post read.
The city says its running hydrants in areas where it received reports to clear the water.
“If you water is discolored, please run all faucets inside and outside until they run clear,” the post continued.
Call City Hall at (478) 994-5649 or the water department at (478) 994-3423 during normal business hours or email jhall@cityofforsyth.com or craig.helms@h2oinnovation.com to report issues.
The city says manganese levels at the water treatment plant are within “normal limits,” but the “levels in the system are high, which is an indicator that the accumulated manganese in the distribution system has released from the piping and is traveling through the distribution system and exiting from customers’ taps.”
The city says its continuing to conduct tests throughout the system.
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Coach’s Corner 2022: Lawrence Smith of the Crisp County Cougars
On this edition of Coach's Corner, 41NBC's Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Lawrence Smith of the Crisp County Cougars.
On this edition of Coach’s Corner, 41NBC’s Bill Shanks talks football with head coach Lawrence Smith of the Crisp County Cougars. Coach Smith has been to the NFL so he knows what a professional winning attitude loos like. Hear how he plans to lead the Cougars this season.
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Front brings storms Friday
Friday will bring another foggy start to some parts Middle Georgia with more rounds of showers and storms associated with a cold front.
As expected it has been another stormy day in Middle Georgia with rain and clouds throughout the day.
Overnight, showers and storms will continue with lows dropping into the low 70s.
Friday will bring another foggy start to some parts Middle Georgia with more rounds of showers and storms associated with a cold front.
Once again a few storms will be strong with heavy rain and some gusty winds.
Showers will stick around through the evening Friday as the front slowly pushes south into Florida.
It will take a while for the front to move all the way through Middle Georgia, but we will eventually see dry air filter in behind the front.
This will limit our rain chances for the weekend, but also bring lower humidity for Saturday evening and Sunday.
After a brief break from rain chances we will be back in the humidity and summer pattern for at least a few days.
Scattered storms will be back starting Monday as we see the potential for another front to move into the area.
If this occurs we could see another nice drop in our temps and our humidity by the end of the week.
Although next week will be starting out with temps near normal for this time of year, it looks like temps will be falling by the end of the week.
It is still a ways off, but if the next cold front pulls together we could see a significant cool down (so lets cross our fingers!).
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High school football scrimmages preview
The first game of the regular season is Rutland hosting Towers on August 18.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — With high school football’s regular season just a week away, several teams will be getting gameplay reps Friday.
Amongst the teams in action will be the Northeast Raiders.
The Raiders are coming off of their best season, going 9-4 and having a trip to the 2A state quarterfinals. Head coach Jeremy Wiggins wants to build off the great season, but he only has two goals in mind for the scrimmage.
“Just to get better and stay healthy. You know, me and Coach Spoon got a good relationship and kind of understand what both of us are trying to do going into the regular season. So we got a good understanding that we both want to stay healthy, and we want to get some good film so we can correct our mistakes and get ready for the next week,” said Wiggins.
As coach Wiggins stated, Northeast will face Coach Spoon Risper and the Westside Seminoles in the scrimmage game.
Westside is coming off of its first losing season in history, which speaks volumes about their successes; however, the Seminoles are missing one important piece of hardware.
“The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did an article on us. It was like compliment us then slap us in the face at the same time. They labeled us as one of the winningest programs in the state of Georgia without a state championship. So we’ve got to get a state championship.” said Risper.
The Westside Seminoles will begin their campaign against the Northeast Raider for a scrimmage at 7 p.m. at Brad Henderson Stadium.
Another two teams that will be in action are the Rutland Hurricanes and Howard Huskies.
Both teams struggled with team size last season. Rutland was facing teams with teams much deeper than themselves in the 4A but since has transitioned to the 2A.
Howard only had 37 players last season, but this season, the Huskies have had at least 65 players consistently at most practices. Huskies head coach Paul Carroll commented on what he believes impacted the kids’ participation numbers.
“We’re getting back to normal. I think the whole school system’s getting back to normal. I think last year, last past two years, the kids come out, they did all that work all week long, and all of a sudden, you have one kid that would get COVID, and the games were shut down. So kids just kind of decided to say, ‘I really don’t want to put that much work and effort,'” said Carroll.
Several sports have seen participation numbers go up since the slow down of COVID-19.
The Howard Huskies and Rutland Hurricanes face off at 7 p.m. at Ed Defore Sports Complex.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
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Meet the new director of ‘Startup Macon’
Heaven Whitby, a Macon native and Northeast High School graduate, is the new director of Startup Macon.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Heaven Whitby, a Macon native and Northeast High School graduate, is the new director of Startup Macon.
It’s a new initiative funded by the Knight Foundation with a goal of connecting entrepreneurs to resources they need when starting a business.
“I’m mostly excited, because I know how hard it is as an entrepreneur myself,” Whitby said. “I can’t wait to help people to feel more at ease as they build their dreams out.”
SparkMacon has been working with the new initiative. Director of Programming Sierra Martin says they’re excited to have a new team member.
“With us being a two person staff, often that can be overwhelming,” Martin said “Now with the addition of a third person, we can make it possible to help more entrepreneurs in our community and to grow the entrepreneur community here in our area.”
Martin says the Startup Macon initiative will help grow the community.
“We would like to actually provide documentation on our website so you can have a look and see what the step-by-step process is to be a part of the entrepreneur community here in the area,” Martin said. “But also grow your outreach as a small business here in the area, and having Heaven on board will make that possible.”
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Wes Scantlin is still just feeling it out.
Whether that’s songwriting as the frontman for Puddle of Mudd or performing live with the band, like he’ll do at The Lincoln Theatre on Saturday, its all about finding a groove and hoping something sticks.
A lot has worked out for Puddle of Mudd over the years. The Kansas City natives blasted into rock radio mainstream with the songs “Blurry” (2001), “Control (2001),” “She Hates Me (2002)” and “Drift & Die (2002),” all featured on their 2002 breakout record “Come Clean.”
Since then, the group has undergone serious lineup changes, with Scantlin being the only consistent member since the band’s inception. Regardless, the group continued to top the mainstream rock charts with songs like “Away From Me” (2003), “Famous” (2007) and “Psycho” (2007).
The band recently returned with their first album since 2011. “Welcome to Galvania” spawned their first high charting single in many years, “Uh Oh” (2019).
Puddle of Mudd are working their way back into the studio this summer to revitalize some songs from the band’s archives. On Wednesday, Scantlin took a break from toying around with new material at his home in Los Angeles to speak with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle by phone ahead of their up coming show.
Question: Have you been in the studio pretty regularly since your last album?
Wes Scantlin: “I have been just friggin’ nosediving into GarageBand (a music creation software), that’s like out-of-this-world amazing nowadays. During the pandemic I studied GarageBand. It’s been unmatched, seriously. There’s some serious, professional tracks.”
Q: How were you working on songs before, then?
A: “It’s usually me, an acoustic guitar, a couple of freaking brewskis, a pen and notebook paper. If it’s good, I’ll just sit there and drill it into my mind. So I kind of just record with my brain, really.
“GarageBand definitely helps. There’s a lot of great ideas and there’s a lot of (bad) ones too. You can kind of kind of file through them and go, ‘Oh, okay, that’s kind of cool.’”
Q: I brushed up on some of your early albums, then the most recent, and it feels like for the most part you maintained your sound. But the state of popular music when you first hit the scene was so different than it is now.
Is it weird to compare what you’re doing now to what’s popular on the radio and streaming?
A: “Man, I don’t know. There’s some songs that I’ve heard where I’m like, ‘Wow, man, these people are getting a lot of notoriety for this?’ I mean, you hear a hit, you know? A hit song. There’s some stuff out there that are just not really hits.
“It’s like, s, Tom Petty and those guys, man, I’m talking about simplicity, dude. Get a groove going on some kind of a cliche sort of deal.”
Q: If we’re talking about hits, then “She Hates Me” – that’s a hit. That comes on in the bar and people start singing it.
A: “On that record I was saving a few (songs) just to have in my back pocket. I let that one sit there and then we go ‘we need a new song.’ So I tell them ‘“She F—king Hates Me,” check it out.’ It was just me and an acoustic in front of Paul Phillips and Danny Wimmer. And their (jaws) dropped on the floor.
“They were like, ‘Wow, that’s got legs.’”
Q: If it’s still playing today, then I’d say it worked out.
A: “Oh man, I don’t even have to sing it live anymore.”
Q: You sat and wrote that song and now audiences anywhere can probably sing the rest of the song to you. It’s got to be a weird feeling.
A: “Jimmy Allen, the original guitar player, and I were rehearsing at this place called ImPres Label, sitting upstairs and smoking, just writing like little songwriters. He’s a very clever guy. He would jot it down and then I would just melodically cruise into it, just read along with lyrics and he would play it.
“I was just like ‘Wow.’ It was a wild moment for us. You know, we were like, 23 or 24 years old.”
Q: Was that the process for all the songs off of “Come Clean”?
A: Yeah. There’s a lot of really killer freaking songs. A lot of the records from that time make me so happy. Like, wow, man, where the hell was I at when I did that?”
Q: Where was your head at when writing that album?
A: “You know usually women will just like just drive you bonkers and make you feel like a f—ing loser. Just angst and trying to be a gentleman or whatever. I’m actually, like, obsessed with searching for maybe another psychotic chick.”
Q: You need the inspiration?
A: “Yeah, I’m trying to pick a real freak, man. It happens naturally anyway.”
Q: So how’d it go last time you played in Cheyenne? If you remember.
A: “Well, I hope it was good. Sometimes we just put the pedal to the metal and go punk rock. We’re just gonna get crazy. Sometimes mid-set I’ll just come up with a riff, kind of like Soundgarden meets Pearl Jam and Kurt Cobain came back to life to start wailing on some vocals.
“Weird droning guitar, some Jane’s Addiction – we just go into a groove and it’s really fun. I can see people’s eyes light up when we do it.”
Q: Does it usually go well? Or do you ever come up with something that just sounds like hell?
A: “No, lately is it’s gone over well. Most of them are coming through real nice, man. Everybody’s got to group in together, get in as a band and go, ‘I’m doing this, check out where I’m at on the fret board.’
“We can get in key, be a little bit psychedelic. Just you can just moan and do noise. Hell, Pearl Jam did ‘Yellow Ledbetter.’ I mean, (Eddie Vedder’s) not even speaking English, but it sounds cool.”
Q: Well I’m looking forward to seeing what you guy’s bring to Cheyenne.
“We’re gonna come in there and we’re gonna blaze, man. We’re gonna blaze it out, have a good time and play some good music.”
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U. of Michigan consumer sentiment prelim survey for August rises to 55.1 vs. 52.5 estimate
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University of Michigan preliminary survey for August 2022
- Sentiment index 55.1 vs. est 52.5 and 51.5 last month
- Conditions 55.5 vs. an estimate of 59.0 and 58.1 last month
- Expectations 54.9 vs. an estimate of 48.4 and 47.3 last month
- 1 year inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term 5.0% vs. last month 5.2%
- 5 year inflation 3.0% vs. 2.9%. The high watermark since 2011 is 3.1%.
A mixed result with one year inflation coming down to 5.0% from 5.2%, but the 5 year inflation gauge rose to 3.0% from 2.9%. Interestingly enough current conditions came in weaker than expected despite the lower gas prices (rents and food cost may be offsetting the lower gas price boost).
Expectations however did increase well above estimates and helped to push up the overall sentiment index for the month.
US stocks are dipping modestly with the Dow now up 0.33% and the S&P up 0.48%. The NASDAQ is up 0.68%.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose broadly in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday and added to weekly gains for the major indexes.
The S&P 500 rose 1% as of 12:37 p.m. Eastern with about 90% of stocks in the benchmark index gaining ground. It’s on track for its first four-week winning streak since last year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 258 points, or 0.8%, to 33,594 and the Nasdaq rose 1.4%.
Small-company stocks also made strong gains in a sign that investors are confident about the economy. The Russell 2000 rose 1.5%.
Technology and communications stocks had some of the biggest gains. Chipmaker Nvidia rose 3.1% and Facebook’s parent Meta rose 1.7%.
Energy companies lagged the market as U.S. oil prices slipped 2.4%. Chevron fell 1%.
Trading has been choppy throughout much of the week, but major indexes got a big bump, and made the bulk of their gains, on Wednesday after a report showed that inflation cooled more than expected last month.
The Federal Reserve’s fight to tame higher prices remains a priority for Wall Street. Investors have been hoping to see some relief from the hottest inflation in four decades and stocks rallied on Wednesday after an encouraging report on consumer prices from the Labor Department.
The Fed has been raising interest rates in the hopes of slowing the economy and cooling inflation, but investors are worried that it could be hitting the brakes too aggressively and risks steering the economy into a recession. The cooler-than-expected reading on consumer prices bolstered hopes among investors that inflation may be close to a peak and that the Fed might be able to temper its rate hikes.
A report on Thursday showed inflation at the wholesale level also slowed more than economists expected last month. On Friday, a survey by the University of Michigan showed that consumer sentiment is stronger than expected by economists.
Inflation is still painfully high, though, and the Fed is likely to remain on course with its rate hikes until it is certain that prices have peaked and are easing. The Fed’s last two increases were by 0.75 percentage points. Traders now see about a 60% chance that the central bank will raise overnight interest rates by half a percentage point at its next meeting.
“The market’s strength is based on the assumption that inflation peaked and the Fed can relax, but that may be a bit too complacent,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.86% from 2.88% late Thursday. It remains below the two-year yield. That’s an unusual inversion of the expectation that borrowing money for a longer period should cost more than a shorter period. When investors demand a higher return for a short term like the 2-year than a longer one like 10 years, it’s viewed by some investors as a reliable signal of a pending recession and the economy has already contracted for two consecutive quarters.
Wall Street will get more details on the economy next week when the Commerce Department releases its retail sales report for July and retail giant Walmart reports its latest financial results.
Investors can also assess the health of the housing market when they get a report on home sales for July and the latest earnings from Home Depot.
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BERLIN (AP) — Former German leader Gerhard Schroeder is suing to restore the perks he enjoyed as ex-chancellor after he was stripped of them by parliament following criticism over his ties with Russia.
Schroeder, who was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has long had a close relationship with Russian energy companies and President Vladimir Putin. Those links came under heightened scrutiny following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly six months ago.
German news agency dpa quoted Schroeder’s lawyer, Michael Nagel, saying Friday that his client had filed a suit with Berlin’s administrative court to restore the necessary funding he previously received for his office and staff.
The Bundestag had changed the rules in May to link some privileges former chancellors receive to their actual duties. In their decision, lawmakers didn’t explicitly state Schroeder’s ties to Russia. But Nagel told dpa that the reasons for the change were obvious and wouldn’t withstand legal challenge.
Earlier this week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party rejected a bid to expel Schroeder, who had refused to distance himself from Putin and recently met with the Russian leader on a visit to Moscow in late July.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their flagship climate change and health care bill toward House passage Friday, placing President Joe Biden on the brink of a back-from-the-dead triumph on his leading domestic goals that could energize his party going into November’s elections.
Democrats were poised to muscle the measure through the narrowly divided House Friday over solid Republican opposition. They employed similar party unity and Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote Sunday to power the measure through the 50-50 Senate.
The package is but a shadow of the far larger, more ambitious plan to supercharge federal environment and social programs that Biden and his party envisioned early last year. That crashed after centrist Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said it was too costly, underscoring the leverage every Democrat has in the evenly divided Senate in which every Republican was opposed.
Ultimately, Democrats thirsty to declare victory capped months of often bitter infighting and forged a more modest compromise that still addresses top-tier party goals such as reining in pharmaceutical costs, taxing large companies and, especially, curbing carbon emissions. They hope it will show they can wring accomplishments from an often fractiously gridlocked Washington that alienates many voters.
“For too long, too many people in this country have felt like the work that happens in Washington isn’t meant to help them,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. “No more. That time is over.”
The bill’s pillar is about $375 billion over 10 years to encourage industry and consumers to shift from carbon-emitting to cleaner forms of energy, hailed by experts as Congress’ biggest climate investment ever. That includes $4 billion added to cope with the West’s catastrophic drought.
Spending, tax credits and loans would bolster technology like solar panels, consumer efforts to improve home energy efficiency, emission-reducing equipment for coal- and gas-powered power plants and air pollution controls for farms, ports and low-income communities.
In a pair of top Democratic health priorities, another $64 billion would help 13 million people pay premiums over the next three years for privately bought health insurance. Medicare would gain the power to negotiate its costs for pharmaceuticals, initially in 2026 for only 10 drugs. Medicare beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket prescription costs would be limited to $2,000 starting in 2025, and starting next year they would pay no more than $35 monthly for insulin, the costly diabetes drug.
The bill would raise around $740 billion in revenue over the decade, over a third from government savings from lower drug prices. More would flow from higher taxes on some $1 billion corporations, levies on companies that repurchase their own stock and stronger IRS tax collections. About $300 billion would remain to defray budget deficits, a fraction of the period’s projected total of $16 trillion.
Republicans said the measure was a compendium of wasteful liberal daydreams that would raise taxes and families’ living costs.
“We face no emergency,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. “We’re simply here because my friends on the other side want to create the illusion that they’re doing something positive before the midterm election.”
Republicans say the legislation’s business tax increases will force companies to raise prices, worsening the nation’s bout with its worst inflation since 1981. Nonpartisan analysts say the measure will have negligible inflation impact one way or the other.
Republicans say Democrats’ plan to expand the IRS budget, aimed at collecting about $120 billion in unpaid taxes, envisions 87,000 agents who’d be coming after families. Democrats called foul, saying their $80 billion IRS budget boost would be to replace waves of retirees, not just agents, and to modernize equipment, and say families and small businesses earning below $400,000 annually would not be targeted.
The GOP also says the bill would raise taxes on lower- and middle-income families. An analysis by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which didn’t include the bill’s tax breaks for health care and energy, estimated that the corporate tax boosts would marginally affect those taxpayers, partly due to lower stock prices and wages.
The bill caps a fertile three months in which Congress has voted to improve veterans’ health benefits, gird the semiconductor industry, moderately strengthen gun restrictions for younger buyers, finance Ukraine’s war with Russia and add Finland and Sweden to NATO. All passed with bipartisan support, suggesting Republicans also want to display their productive side.
It’s unclear whether voters will reward Democrats for the legislation after months of painfully high inflation dominating voters’ attention. Though record gasoline prices have dipped, Biden’s popularity dangles damagingly low and midterm elections have a consistent history of ending careers of lawmakers from the party that holds the White House.
Democrats’ economic bill had its roots in early 2021, after Congress approved a $1.9 trillion measure over GOP opposition to combat the pandemic-induced economic downturn. Emboldened, the new president and his party reached further.
They initially produced an ambitious 10-year, $3.5 trillion environment and social plan they called Build Back Better. It featured free prekindergarten, paid family and medical leave, expanded Medicare benefits, increases for education and housing and an easing of immigration restrictions. It sought to roll back Trump-era tax breaks for the rich and corporations and proposed $555 billion for climate efforts, well above the resources in Friday’s legislation.
With Manchin opposing those amounts, it was sliced to a roughly $2 trillion measure that Democrats moved through the House in November. Just before Christmas, Manchin unexpectedly sank that bill, citing fears of inflation and international uncertainty and earning brickbats from exasperated fellow Democrats from Capitol Hill and the White House.
With on-and-off closed-door talks between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., seemingly dying, the two lawmakers shocked Washington and announced agreement last month on the new, pared-down package.
Manchin won billions for carbon capture technology for the fossil fuel industries he champions, plus procedures for more oil drilling on federal lands and promises for faster energy project permitting.
Centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., also used her leverage for late concessions, eliminating planned higher taxes on hedge fund managers and helping win the drought funds.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
And billions left over to pay down federal deficits.
All told, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package heading toward final passage in Congress and to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature will touch countless American lives with longtime party proposals.
Not as robust as Biden’s initial ideas to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems, the compromise of health care, climate change and deficit-reduction strategies is also a stunning election year turnaround, a smaller but not unsubstantial product brought back to political life after having collapsed last year.
Democrats alone support the package, with all Republicans expected to vote against it. Republicans deride the 730-page bill as big government overreach and point particular criticism at its $80 billion investment in the IRS to hire new employees and go after tax scofflaws.
Voters will be left to sort it out in the November elections, when control of Congress will be decided.
Here’s what’s in the estimated $740 billion package — made up of $440 billion in new spending and $300 billion toward easing deficits— that is up for final approval Friday in the House.
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate some prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
The result is expected to lower costs for older adults on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
The revenue raised would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
HELP PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for some 13 million people who are purchasing their own health care policies through the Affordable Care Act.
BIGGEST U.S. INVESTMENT ‘BY FAR’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE
The bill would infuse nearly $375 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies that Democrats believe could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
For consumers, that means tax rebates to buy electric vehicles — $4,000 for used vehicle purchase and up to $7,500 for new ones, eligible to households with incomes of $300,000 or less for couples, or single people with income of $150,000 or less.
Not all electric vehicles will fully qualify for the tax credits, thanks to requirements that component parts be manufactured and assembled in the U.S. And pricier cars costing more than $55,000 and SUVs and trucks priced above $80,000 are excluded.
There’s also tax breaks for consumers to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar.
For businesses, the bill has $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
The bill also gives tax credits for nuclear power and carbon capture technology that oil companies such as Exxon Mobil have invested millions of dollars to advance.
The bill would impose a new fee on excess methane emissions from oil and gas drilling while giving fossil fuel companies access to more leases on federal lands and waters.
A late addition pushed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and other Democrats in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado would designate $4 billion to combat a mega-drought in the West, including conservation efforts in the Colorado River Basin, which nearly 40 million Americans rely on for drinking water.
HOW TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS?
One of the biggest revenue-raisers in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It’s a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year and raise more than $258 billion over the decade.
There will also be a new 1% excise tax imposed on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade.
Savings from allowing Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies is expected to bring in $288 billion over 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
Yet money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
EXTRA MONEY TO PAY DOWN DEFICITS
With some $740 billion in new revenue and around $440 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference of about $300 billion toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation’s economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which recently put out a new report on long-term projections.
WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND?
The package, nowhere near the sweeping Build Back Better program Biden once envisioned, remains a sizable undertaking and, along with COVID-19 relief and the GOP 2017 tax cuts, is among the more substantial bills from Congress in years.
While Congress did pass and Biden signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for highways, broadband and other investments that was part of the White House’s initial vision, the Democrats’ other big priorities have slipped away.
Gone, for now, are are plans for free pre-kindergarten and community college, as well as the nation’s first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs. Also allowed to expire is the enhanced child care credit that was providing $300 a month during the pandemic.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — European authorities are considering a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Spain to Italy as a way of getting around France’s opposition to a gas link-up across the Pyrenees between the Iberian peninsula and central Europe, Portugal’s prime minister said Friday.
Portugal and Spain could send a lot of the liquefied natural gas, or LNG, they receive from around the world to other European Union countries, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said. He gave no further details, but such an undersea pipeline would likely take years to complete.
EU countries have struggled to find common ground on how to wean the bloc off its reliance on Russian natural gas. Russian President Vladimir Putin has weaponized gas exports to pressure the bloc into reducing its sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Putin has already cut off gas exports to more than a dozen EU nations and reduced exports to key industrial powerhouses like Germany. Many European officials fear he could cut off gas exports to most of Europe over the winter, a time of key demand.
The two Iberian countries receive LNG via pipeline from Algeria and Morocco, as well as by ship from countries such as the United States and Nigeria. But there are currently scant energy connections between Spain and Portugal and rest of Europe.
“The Iberian peninsula has capacity to replace a large part of the liquefied natural gas that central Europe today imports from Russia,” Costa told reporters.
With six LNG plants in Spain — including Europe’s largest, in Barcelona — and one in Portugal, the Iberian neighbors account for one-third of Europe’s LNG processing capacity. The port-based terminals turn boatloads of supercooled LNG back into gas that then flows into homes and businesses.
Costa said the Iberian plants could also send more LNG by ship to other European ports while a pipeline is being built.
Costa said the French government is still against a pipeline across the Pyrenees, citing environmental concerns, and added that the European Commission is assessing a link to Italy.
Costa’s comments came after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, speaking Thursday in Berlin, said, “I have spent a lot of time dealing with a pipeline that we sorely lack, namely the pipeline that should have been built between Portugal, Spain through France to central Europe.”
He added: “It would now make a massive contribution to relieving and easing the supply situation.”
Scholz said he had been in talks with Spain, Portugal, France and the European Commission about the project.
The German chancellor’s comments were welcomed by Portugal and Spain, which could reap the benefits of their investments in LNG.
“Spain is well prepared,” Spanish Industry Minister Reyes Maroto told Antena 3 television on Friday. “We hope that if the German chancellor’s proposal prospers, we will have better gasification and more interconnections in Europe so as not to depend on Russian gas and be self-sufficient energy wise.”
The U.S. government and businesses have long been eyeing Portugal’s deep water Atlantic port of Sines as a springboard for expansion. They have identified Sines as a potential gateway to Europe for gas from fracking in the United States, which has allowed the U.S. to boost LNG exports and offer low prices.
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LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s economy shrank in the three months to June, figures released Friday showed — a smaller-than-expected contraction that nevertheless added to jitters about the rocky months ahead.
The Office for National Statistics said Britain’s gross domestic product fell by 0.1% between April and June, down from 0.8% growth in the previous quarter. GDP shrank by 0.6% in June, and growth estimates for May were revised down from 0.5% to 0.4%.
The statistics office said health spending was the biggest contributor to the fall, as the government scaled down coronavirus testing, contact tracing and vaccination programs.
“Many retailers also had a tough quarter,” said ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan. “These were partially offset by growth in hotels, bars, hairdressers and outdoor events across the quarter,” partly as a result of celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in June.
Analysts said the decline did not necessarily mean the start of a recession, often defined as two quarters of economic contraction. The Bank of England, however, says the U.K. will likely fall into recession later this year as a cost-of-living crisis worsens and inflation rises above the current 9.4%.
The average U.K. household fuel bill has risen more than 50% this year as the war in Ukraine squeezes global oil and natural gas supplies, and another increase is due in October, when the average’s bill is forecast to hit 3,500 pounds ($4,300) a year.
“The fall in U.K. GDP during the second quarter was largely down to noise,” said James Smith, developed markets economist at ING Economics. “But the risk of recession is rising quickly, with gas futures hitting new highs for next winter and our latest estimates suggesting the household energy price cap could come close to 5,000 pounds in the second quarter of next year. Much now depends on fiscal policy announcements in the autumn.”
Anti-poverty campaigners, consumer groups and opposition politicians are pressing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to help people cope with soaring bills. But Johnson is in his final weeks as prime minister and says “significant fiscal decisions” must be left to his successor, who will take office in September.
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Georgia College starts new school year with a move in day
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A new round of students moved into Georgia College and participated in the official GCSU move in day.
About 1,100 new students were moved in a span of 3 hours and were assisted by around 450 Cat Crew volunteers. The volunteers unpacked student vehicles and transported their belongings up to their dorms. Volunteers included students, student athletes, faculty, staff members and residents from the Milledgeville community. Each dorm had different volunteer groups as well as amounts of students moving in, in Wells Hall there were about 50 volunteers led by Jonathan Lutz, a Central Campus Office Assistant. Lutz has been volunteering for the move in days for three years now and he spoke on how many students Wells Hall was expecting.
“We have about 115 to 140 coming in today, provided that everything goes correctly and no one has any emergencies or anything, we’ll have around that number coming in.”
This move in day was the fastest for GCSU as for the past three years were hindered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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At least 14 people were injured on Friday after a vehicle crashed into an Arlington, Virginia pub and caused a structure fire, police said.
The Arlington County Police Department said in a tweet that eight people were transported to area hospitals, four of those were critically injured, and six other people were treated on the scene and released.
"Medics continue to treat additional patients on the scene," Arlington County Police Department said in a tweet.
The crash took place at Ireland's Four Courts pub and restaurant in the 2000 block of Wilson Boulevard, according to police.
The structure fire has been extinguished, according to a tweet from the Arlington County Fire Department.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Correction: A previous version of this report misidentified the number of people injured, according to police. It is 14.
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Bibb Sheriff’s Office: Warner Robins woman dies after crash on Hawkinsville Road
One person is dead after a two-vehicle crash on Hawkinsville Road Friday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – One person is dead after a two-vehicle crash on Hawkinsville Road Friday night.
It happened just before 5:30 near Hawkinsville Road’s intersection with Rex Elder Boulevard.
Witnesses told deputies a car was traveling south on Hawkinsville Road when the driver lost control and crossed over into the northbound lanes and collided with a panel truck. Macon-Bibb Coroner pronounced the driver of the car, 39-year-old Leighanne Hise Of Warner Robins, dead at the scene.
Paramedics treated the driver of the panel truck at the scene.
Anyone with information about the collision should call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 and ask to speak with a fatality investigator.
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City of Perry launches new podcast
You can learn about all the inner workings of the city by listening to the podcast.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — There’s a new way to learn about how the City of Perry works.
The city started a podcast called “Inside Perry.”
Tabitha Clark, Senior Communications Manager with the city, says her office came up with the idea to go along with the city’s Strategic Plan, which includes finding different ways to get residents to engage with the city.
You can learn about all the inner workings of the city by listening to the podcast.
“What people can expect are a wide variety of topics that pertain to local government,” she said. “We’re going to talk about simple things such as code compliance. We’re also going to talk about the major projects we have going on in the future.”
Five episodes of the “Inside Perry” podcast are available right now. You can listen to it on the city’s website, Apple podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and iHeartRadio.
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Dry air returns for the weekend
There is an end to the stormy days in sight as a cold front moves through by Saturday afternoon. Lower humidity keeps rain chances low Sunday
We are once again dealing with a stormy evening in Middle Georgia, but we are so close to some dry weather.
A cold front is dropping into the area tonight, bringing drier air with it for the weekend.
Still expect to see some fog and clouds to start Saturday as well as an isolated shower.
As the front slowly pushes south, we will start to see dry air move in and allow our lows to drop to the 60s by Sunday morning.
Although the front will move through on Saturday it will still take a little while to see the relief from the humidity.
By Sunday afternoon it should be feeling pretty comfortable (humidity-wise) across the area.
This will keep our rain chances very low on Sunday.
High temps will still be in the upper 80s and low 90s.
As we head into next week we will see a return of the humidity as well as increased rain chances.
A cold front will be dropping into the area, keeping an unsettled weather pattern for the week.
Although there are still some questions about how much rain we will get, it looks like a good bet to keep the umbrella around for the week.
One positive of the continued rain…cooler high temps for most of the week.
Highs for much of next week will be limited to the mid 80s with off and on rain throughout the week.
Hoping that some of this can clear out before we have our first high school football games of the season.
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Houston Hardware celebrates 40th anniversary
The store offers hardware and gardening supplies and has a large nursery and porch area that specializes in fertilizers, feeds and other outdoor supplies.
BONAIRE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Houston Hardware and Garden Center is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
The store, located at 602 GA Highway 247, opened on July 19, 1982. It was housed in a small building built in 1911 but has since expanded into its current size.
The store offers hardware and gardening supplies and has a large nursery and porch area that specializes in fertilizers, feeds and other outdoor supplies.
Current owner Tom Williams recalls getting the establishment from its previous owner.
“He told me that he had a business he wanted me to look at,” he said. “He said, ‘You would fit it perfectly,’ and I asked him, ‘What kind of business?’ And he threw his hands up, and I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me,’ and he said, ‘Nope.'”
Williams says that in the early days his big selling point was installing sprinkler systems in yards and teaching people how to do use them. Since then, the store has grown and given back to the community.
Williams used to host an annual turkey cookout the day before Thanksgiving. One particular year, he learned of a little girl who had cancer. He says her family needed financial help, so he used the turkey cookout as a fundraiser.
“In about three hours, we had raised about $17,000 to give to this family,” he said. “And those things is what I try to do for our community here.”
Houston Hardware also gives back by hiring high school students to help give them experience. Chris Tapia, who has worked for the store for five years, says he has gained a lot of experience from working in the nursery.
“I’ve gained a lot of knowledge about plants, more say than I would have probably learned on my own, and thanks to Tom and the store, I feel like I have the correct knowledge to give out to customers for their landscaping,” he said.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from August 12, 2022
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Mercer women’s basketball coach shares her book with Bibb County first graders
Mercer women's basketball coach Susie Gardner wrote a book with the hope of sparking a love of reading in children. Bibb County first graders will all get a copy of it.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — It was Dr. Seuss who once said, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Mercer women’s basketball coach Susie Gardner wrote a book with the hope of sparking a love of reading in children.
“I want kids to want to learn to read, to love to hold their very own book, but also hopefully the book tells a message too,” Gardner said.
Gardner’s book, called One, Two, Three, Team!, follows a child named Zoey who learns the value of teamwork. Gardner says even though the book focuses on a child in a sports environment, she hopes the message will expand beyond that.
“Team sports is very critical, but not just as a sport, as a human being, as you grow and develop as a person,” she said. “No matter what you decide to do with your life, you need to be a teammate. You can’t just be selfish.”
First grade students at Hartley Elementary got to hear Coach Gardner read her book Friday and also got to take home a copy of it.
Hartley Elementary School Principal Dr. Carmalita Dillard says the theme of the book matches the school’s vision for its students.
“That’s to build proficient readers and leaders,” Dr. Dillard said. “As our students learn to read, but also as they embrace the concept of being a great team member, a great citizen, they build leadership skills.”
Coach Gardner says even though she wrote the book six years ago, it’s a dream come true to finally be able to share it with the community.
“I like the interaction, I like when they yell ‘Team!’ That tells me that they’re paying attention,” she said. “But the best part of the day was as they were walking out that door getting their very own book.”
Each first grader in the Bibb County School District will get a free copy of One, Two, Three, Team! If your child is not in first grade but you want to get them a copy of the book, you can purchase it online from the Mercer University Press website.
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New safety measures in place for Jones County football games
Fans who attend football games at Jones County High School will notice changes this season.
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Fans who attend football games at Jones County High School will notice changes this season.
The Board of Education created more safety measures in an effort to keep fans safe in the stands.
Jones County High Principal Lance Rackley says one of the most noticeable changes for fans will be metal detectors at all entrances.
“We just ask for fans to bear with us if there’s a slight delay beyond what there accustomed to,” he said. “As many as we’re gonna have out there, we don’t think there will be much of a delay at all. We just want to ensure student safety, fan safety and also for everyone to have a great time, to feel secure while they’re out here just enjoying a great football game.”
The Jones County Sheriff’s Office has worked closely with the school district to institute the metal detectors. Captain Travis Douglas says they’re prepared to keep games safe.
“There’s open dialogue between us and the school system making sure that we’re prepared for anything that may occur and making sure of students and the citizens are our top priority,” he said.
Jones County Superintendent Charles Lundy also commented on the new safety measures.
“We appreciate everyone understanding and working with us to keep all our fans, players, and staff members safe,” he said.
The Jones County Sheriff’s Office is also asking fans to bring clear bags and arrive early if they can to make the entry process easier.
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Northeast vs Westside and Rutland vs Howard scrimmage highlights
The first game of the regular season is Rutland hosting Towers on August 18.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — With high school football’s regular season a week away, several teams were in action today getting some final gameplay reps.
The Northeast Raiders took on the Westside Seminoles while the Rutland Hurricanes faced the Howard Huskies. Highlights are above.
The Hurricanes begin the 2022 regular season by hosting Towers on Thursday, August 18.
The Seminoles face Central on the road, and the Huskies host Southwest on Friday, August 19.
The Raiders round-up week one action against Mary Persons on Saturday, August 20.
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Georgia National Fairgrounds hosting consignment sale through Sunday
The Tykes, Tots & Teens consignment sale is back at the Georgia National Fairgrounds from August 11-14.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Tykes, Tots & Teens consignment sale is back at the Georgia National Fairgrounds from August 11-14.
Local vendors are selling children’s goods from clothes to toys to school supplies. Prices are set individually by the vendors, and anyone can come to buy.
The last day of the sale, on Sunday, will be “Discount Day.” Any item with a star on the sticker is 50% off. “Dollar Dash” will be held later that day. Anything with a bold letter “D” on it is just $1.
The sale helps thousands of people, and the amount of vendors grows each year.
This particular sale has 800 vendors. One of those vendors is Melody Green.
“Financially right now it’s hard, and so I think it makes it nice that we have this opportunity to come to this kind of a place where you get to see just amazing amounts of not only clothing but shoes, toys, pretty much anything that you can think of is here that you might need,” she said.
If you would like to learn more about the sale, click here.
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Wesleyan College welcomes new students
Wesleyan College is welcoming a new group of students to its campus.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) – Wesleyan College is welcoming a new group of students to its campus.
The school held its official induction ceremony Friday morning to welcome its new students.
The college says its focus is teaching women to become leaders and giving them opportunities to follow their dreams.
President of Wesleyan College, Megan Blight, says she’s exited to take on her new role as president.
“It’s not the same until the students and faculty arrive and our residence (halls) are full and our classrooms are full, so today marks a very exciting journey for us,” she said.
Wesleyan students return to class on Tuesday, August 16.
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Longtime readers of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle know we have a rich history of endorsing candidates in various high-profile local, state or federal races. These recommendations were made only after our editorial board completed thorough interviews with the candidates in the race — usually in person.
Unfortunately, time and resources don’t allow such a thorough vetting of candidates at this time. But in one key race at the state level, one candidate is so obviously the wrong fit for the job that he has earned our first-ever “non-endorsement,” a recommendation that Wyoming voters choose anyone but him.
No, we’re not talking about Chuck Gray in the secretary of state’s race (although it was tempting to make this a twofer based on his ridiculous, unsubstantiated statements about Wyoming election integrity alone).
Instead, the focus of our opposition at this point is “incumbent” Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder.
This will come as no surprise to those who have read these pages over the six months since he was appointed by Gov. Mark Gordon to fill the remainder of Jillian Balow’s term when she resigned to take a similar position in Virginia. That’s because nearly every time he has spoken publicly about an issue, Mr. Schroeder has earned a “Thumbs Down” from the WTE Editorial Board.
Each time, the “down” was well-deserved, and we even showed some restraint by not giving them to him in consecutive weeks. But regardless of whether he received them at the time or not, the evidence points to Mr. Schroeder being possibly the worst person Wyoming voters could put in a position to lead the state’s public school system. (Yes, even worse than Cindy Hill, believe it or not.)
The main reason he’s the wrong fit is Mr. Schroeder comes from a private, military school background and seems hell-bent on making our public schools look and feel like those institutions. That’s fine if you choose to send your child to such a school, but not appropriate for the vast majority.
Next, he clearly believes his main purpose isn’t to focus on the details of supporting the state’s 26 K-12 school districts, it’s to appeal to the far-right base that sent him to Cheyenne in the first place. (It wouldn’t be appropriate to blame the governor for inflicting Mr. Schroeder on us, since the other two finalists offered by the Wyoming GOP had even less professional experience in education or none at all.)
Among the other evidence:
Within his first few weeks in office, Mr. Schroeder was testifying in committees of the Wyoming Legislature, but not in support of more funding for K-12 education or higher pay for teachers. Instead, he publicly supported one bill to ban teaching critical race theory, even though he acknowledged it wasn’t being taught at the K-12 level in Wyoming. He supported another “prohibiting biological males from athletic teams and sports designated for females in public schools,” saying he considers transgender identities part of a “social contagion.”
In late May, he held an event at Cheyenne’s Evangelical Free Church promoting charter schools. During the event, he said it was alarming how U.S. public schools have become one of most toxic places for children before being challenged by someone in the audience and clarifying that he didn’t mean Wyoming schools.
Later, he said, “The evangelists of secularism saw two institutions, government and education, as the perfect twin vehicles through which they would remake society in their image. Once more, through this quiet revolution, they anticipated the American people would be sleeping at the wheel, and by the time they woke up, it would be too late.”
He said the end result would be that the federal government would sink its hooks deeper into public schools, with a growing number of strings attached.
In June, Mr. Schroeder loudly proclaimed that Wyoming would not comply with a USDA Food and Nutrition Services mandate that requires states to comply with nondiscrimination policies that include new provisions for gender identity and sexual orientation.
If he were able to follow through on this statement, the state would have to come up with $40 million a year to cover the federal government’s share of funding for school lunches. He said there is no way he would deny any student a meal; instead, this is about pushing back on Biden administration mandates, and “We categorically reject gender ideology and will not bow to the coercive will of a bully government.”
Earlier this month, he said he wants Wyoming to have a law that would prevent teachers from discussing some sexual and gender-related topics with young children. Modeled after Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act — referred to by critics as the “don’t say gay law” — this legislation would keep teachers from mentioning these topics to students in kindergarten through third grade.
That’s just the high-profile positions he’s taken. No doubt, he has many more deeply held, ultra-conservative beliefs he hasn’t yet had the opportunity to share on a public stage. But it’s more than enough to know he’s the opposite of the inclusive, accepting and supportive leader that LGBTQ students and staff of all gender identities — as well as the rest of Wyoming residents — need.
Of course, we know there are many in the state who will support Mr. Schroeder because they agree with him on these issues. Chief among them are the leaders of the Wyoming Republican Party who have gone out of their way to show their support, even though there were four other Republicans seeking the position until Sheridan military college professor Thomas Kelly (one of the three finalists for the job initially) announced his withdrawal from the race earlier last week.
As the most high-profile candidate in the race, Mr. Schroeder has to be considered the favorite to advance to November’s general election. He certainly has statewide name recognition – something none of the other three remaining GOP candidates can claim.
We just hope that notoriety leads voters who value the integrity of the K-12 public education system to pick someone — anyone — else.
If so, the amount of time Mr. Schroeder has to inflict his idea of “leadership” on our public school system will be limited to less than 12 months. If not, brace yourselves, folks. We’re afraid his “shock-and-awe” trampling of the rights of certain Wyoming students and his politicization of the office has only begun.
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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The Imo State Police Command have raided bandits’ location at Obudi Agwa in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State and arrested six of them.
The arrest followed a distress call on 10th August 2022 that some of the bandits that escaped arrest during the Izombe and Agwa raid conducted by the Command’s Tactical Teams, were sighted to have regrouped, blocking the road along Obudi Agwa, stopping vehicles, searching the occupants and checking their phones to identify policemen in the vehicle for possible abduction.
The command in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Michael Abattam on Saturday said that the Command’s tactical teams immediately mobilised, joined by police operatives from Agwa Police station.
He said that they stormed the identified location at Obudi Agwa road, cordoned the area and arrested six bandits.
The bandits according to the Police Spokesman include a 30-year-old Mmadukaji Moses of Mgbala Agwa, wearing police operational vest suspectedly owned by one of the slain police officers in the Agwa Police Station attack.
Others are Chigozie Amanyere, 21 years of Umukpo Agwa; Ifeanyi Uche of Obudi Agwa; Uzoma Uche of Obudi Agwa; a 24-year-old Sopuruchi Anumodu and Chukwuma aged 30yrs.
He said that the operatives swiftly and tactically disarmed the bandits and recovered their weapons, which include one English-made automatic pump action gun, two locally made pistols, twenty live cartridges and fourteen sharpened machetes, to the station.
CSP Abattam said that in the course of interrogating the suspects, it was discovered that they are all natives of Agwa while the one who was putting on police operational vest, is undergoing further interrogation to confirm the source of the police vest adding that as soon as investigation is concluded, they will be charged to court.
The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde while commending the officers for their proactiveness and prompt response, called on Hunters Association to collaborate with the police and other security agencies in giving information on criminal hideouts observed in the bushes.
He appealed to Imo people not to allow terrorists use their communities as safe haven to perpetrate heinous crimes but should rather report any suspicious activity observed within their neighbourhoods to the nearest police station or call the Command’s emergency numbers: 08034773600 or 08098880197.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Amazon-owned companies — Ring and Hollywood studio MGM — are teaming to create a TV show in the mold of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” using viral footage from Ring’s doorbell and smart-home cameras.
The half-hour show, called “Ring Nation,” will be hosted by actor and comedian Wanda Sykes and premier in syndication on Sept. 26, MGM said.
The studio noted audiences should expect to see the usual things that go viral — marriage proposals, neighbors saving neighbors and silly animals.
The series showcases Amazon’s fusion of its various business arms, this time to highlight what MGM called “interesting moments from communities across the country.”
“You have one company that owns two juggernauts and (has) just figured out how to leverage one against the other,” said Robert Passikoff, president of the brand research firm Brand Keys. He noted that unlike scripted movies or shows, a reality series using Ring footage will likely be cheaper to produce.
The show also presents a branding opportunity for the Seattle-based e-commerce and retail giant, which bought Ring in 2018 for $1 billion and has dealt with rounds of privacy concerns around Ring and its relationship with police departments across the country.
Last month, Amazon revealed it had provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission — all in response to emergency requests, according to the company.
MGM, which Amazon purchased for $8.5 billion, said in a statement Thursday that “Ring Nation” will offer audiences “daily dose of life’s unpredictable, heartwarming and hilarious viral videos” shared by people from their cameras.
“Many of these have been previously shared online,” Amazon spokesperson Nick Schweers said. “Others were sent directly to the team.” Ring Nation secures permissions for each video from the owner and anyone identifiable in the video, or from companies that hold the rights to the clips, he said.
Amazon’s deal to purchase MGM was closed earlier this year, though the Federal Trade Commission has said it still retains discretion to challenge it. Big Fish Entertainment, a production company owned by MGM, will also be part of the partnership.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal prosecutors over previous spills in two other states cracked open and released more than 45,000 gallons (205,000 liters) of fuel, state regulators and a company representative disclosed Friday.
Cleanup work is ongoing from the spill that was discovered by the pipeline’s operator on July 27, said Joe Hunter, Emergency Response Coordinator with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The fuel spilled into sandy soil on private ranchland near the small community of Sussex in eastern Wyoming and did not spread very far, he said.
Contaminated soil was being excavated and placed into a temporary staging area, and it will be spread onto a nearby dirt road where the fuel is expected to largely evaporate, Hunter said.
The line is operated by Bridger Pipeline, a subsidiary of Casper-based True companies, according to an accident report submitted to the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Response Center.
The company initially reported only 420 gallons (1,590 liters) had spilled, but later revised its estimate to 45,150 gallons (205,250 liters), according to a National Response Center database.
Bridger Pipeline spokesperson Bill Salvin said the initial figure was based on what company personnel saw on the ground and reported immediately. The volume estimate increased as the site was excavated, he said.
True and its subsidiaries have a long history of spills. In May, federal prosecutors in Montana alleged that representatives of Bridger Pipeline had concealed from regulators problems with a pipeline that broke beneath the Yellowstone River near the city of Glendive in 2015. The break spewed more than 50,000 gallons (240,000 liters) of crude into the river and fouled Glendive’s drinking water supply.
In North Dakota, federal prosecutors and the state Attorney General’s Office are pursuing parallel claims of environmental violations against a second True companies subsidiary responsible for a 2016 spill that released more than 600,000 gallons (2.7 million liters) of crude, contaminating the Little Missouri River and a tributary.
Representatives of the companies have denied violating pollution laws and rejected claims that problems with the Montana line were concealed from federal regulators.
The Wyoming spill was caused by a crack at a weld in the line, said Hunter, who did not know how long it was leaking before being discovered. The spilled fuel did not appear to reach any waterways and no enforcement actions for environmental violations were planned, he said.
“I’m not saying there wouldn’t be any down the road but for right now there won’t be” any enforcement actions by the state, Hunter said. “It’s an older pipeline and it’s one of those things that happen.”
The 6-inch (15 centimeter) diameter steel line was installed in 1968 by the original owner and later acquired by Bridger Pipeline, Salvin said. It was last inspected in 2019, using a device that travels inside the pipe looking for flaws, and no problems were detected, he said.
“We’re focused on minimizing the environmental impact and we’re going to replace the soil and restore the land as close as possible to its original condition,” Salvin said.
Kenneth Clarkson with the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington-based group that advocates for safer pipelines, said a thorough investigation into the spill’s cause needs to conducted.
“It’s frustrating to hear of another spill by Bridger Pipeline LLC,” Clarkson said. “This spill of 45,000-plus gallons of diesel into rural Wyoming negatively impacts the environment, wildlife, and surrounding communities.”
Violations of pipeline safety regulations would be handled separately and fall under jurisdiction of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Salvin said the agency has been notified about the spill, but officials did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press.
Bridger last year reached a $2 million settlement with the federal government and Montana over damages from the Yellowstone River spill. The company was previously fined $1 million in the case by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – One person suffered minor injuries in an apartment fire on Mulberry Street in Springfield, that had all companies responding. Springfield Fire had sent out a tweet on their Twitter account just before noon, that there was a working fire at 101 Mulberry Street. The fire was reported as knocked down a little less than an hour later.
Red Cross is assisting one family that was displaced. The cause of the fire in still under investigation.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Among the many things it could do nuclear energy experts say is spur more projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Gates' company, TerraPower, plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor and employ workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators, such as wind and solar. To ensure coal communities have a place in the energy transition, both tax credits include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited where residents have relied on fossil fuel plants or mining— a “sizeable incentive” to locate them there, according to Matt Crozat, senior director for strategy and policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
That could include towns in coal-dependent West Virginia, since the state eliminated a ban on nuclear power plants this year. Or in Maryland, where the state announced a partnership in June to look at repurposing a fossil fuel site for a small nuclear reactor. Or in Montana, where lawmakers are looking at advanced nuclear reactors as a possible replacement for coal boilers.
Staffan Qvist, an expert in energy systems analysis and decarbonization strategies, has extensively researched the feasibility of replacing coal plants with emissions-free alternatives in China and Poland. He found that coal plants often make ideal sites for advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors.
“It’s a growing trend," Qvist said, “now it’s being talked about everywhere.” Qvist is also founder of Qvist Consulting Limited in the United Kingdom. “You have a site, you have a grid connection. You have equipment that can remain in use, and you have a workforce that could be retrained.”
A design by NuScale Power is the first to be fully certified in the United States and the company is planning to begin operating a small modular reactor in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company's chief financial officer, Chris Colbert, said former coal plants are ideal locations for advanced nuclear technology, in part because transmission lines are already in place.
Colbert also said he thinks potential customers will be more interested in the company’s small advanced reactors because of the incentives in the bill.
There are nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Among them, there's a new tax credit available to any carbon-free electricity generator. That includes new advanced nuclear reactors that begin construction in 2025 or later. Existing nuclear plants that expand their output could get credit for that additional electricity production. The credit is worth at least $25 per megawatt-hour for the first decade the plant operates, according to NEI, the industry's trade association.
Or, owners of a new carbon-free electricity generator could take advantage of an investment tax credit, worth 30% of the amount they paid to build the facility.
The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need. And there's a tax credit for existing nuclear plants worth up to $15 per megawatt hour from 2024 to 2032. That's enough of a boost that it's highly likely no nuclear plants will close during that period for economic reasons, Crozat said. There are expanded options for how the credit can be used, with direct payments for certain owners, such as municipal utilities.
The incentives are a game changer for the nuclear energy industry, said Jacopo Buongiorno, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buongiorno has studied the future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world.
“This is really substantial,” he said as he read the list of tax credits. “This should move the needle in terms of making these technologies economically viable right off the bat.”
Buongiorno liked that the credits are available to many carbon-free technologies.
“It's not just nuclear, it's not just solar, it's all of the above, which is what we have been preaching as the right approach for decarbonization,” he said. “You need to sort of push everybody here.”
But Grant Smith, a senior energy policy adviser at the Environmental Working Group, said tax credits for small modular nuclear units is a waste of taxpayer dollars. They divert resources from commercially-viable emerging technologies, Smith said, and stokes “the continuing false narrative of cheap, easily-deployed nuclear technology that the sector has been spinning for decades.” Smith leads the nonprofit's work on accelerating the transition to renewables.
Georgia has the only nuclear project currently under construction in the U.S.
Two traditional large reactors were projected to cost $14 billion and are now expected to cost more than $30 billion.
Because of that, Buongiorno said he'd be shocked if there is another order for a traditional large reactor in the U.S.
The perception of financial risk, or project risk overall, would be too high, he said.
There are roughly 40 serious concepts in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide, Qvist said. China was the first to connect one of the next generation of reactors to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating last year.
Kairos Power has applied for a permit to construct a test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Hitachi is working on a reactor in Ontario, Canada, and if it’s successful, there’s a lot of interest in it in the United States, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, Qvist said.
The largest public power company in the U.S., the Tennessee Valley Authority, launched a program this year to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TVA is focused on GE Hitachi’s design.
At least a dozen advanced reactors are projected to come online in the 2020s.
“It’s not far off and it’s not speculative and it’s not on paper,” Qvist said. “There are actually a lot of things really happening.”
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BERLIN (AP) — German businesses and public institutions should heat their offices no higher than 19 degrees Celsius (66.2 degrees Fahrenheit) this winter to help reduce the country’s consumption of natural gas, Germany’s economy minister said Saturday.
Germany, the European Union’s biggest economy, is quickly trying to wean itself off using natural gas from Russia in response to Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. However Germany uses more Russian gas imports than many other EU nations. Russia has already cut off gas exports to several EU nations, and officials fear Moscow will use the gas exports as a political weapon to get sanctions against Russia reduced — or even cut the exports to Europe off altogether in the winter, when demand is the highest.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said while the EU’s 27 countries have pledged to cut their gas use by 15% from August compared to the previous five-year average, Germany needs to reduce its consumption by 20%.
Habeck is also proposing banning the heating of non-commercial private pools; switching off heating in common areas of public buildings, such as foyers; and switching off the lights on public billboards between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan.
For years, Democrats have promised to raise taxes on such investors, who pay a significantly lower rate on their earnings than ordinary workers. But just as they closed in on that goal last week, Sinema forced a series of changes to her party’s $740 billion election-year spending package, eliminating a proposed “carried interest” tax increase on private equity earnings while securing a $35 billion exemption that will spare much of the industry from a separate tax increase other huge corporations now have to pay.
The bill, with Sinema’s alterations intact, was given final approval by Congress on Friday and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden next week.
Sinema has long aligned herself with the interests of private equity, hedge funds and venture capital, helping her net at least $1.5 million in campaign contributions since she was elected to the House a decade ago. But the $983,000 she has collected since last summer more than doubled what the industry donated to her during all of her preceding years in Congress combined, according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance disclosures.
The donations, which make Sinema one of the industry’s top beneficiaries in Congress, serve a reminder of the way that high-power lobbying campaigns can have dramatic implications for the way legislation is crafted, particularly in the evenly divided Senate where there are no Democratic votes to spare. They also highlight a degree of political risk for Sinema, whose unapologetic defense of the industry’s favorable tax treatment is viewed by many in her party as indefensible.
“From their vantage point, it’s a million dollars very well spent,” said Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal-leaning think tank. “It’s pretty rare you see this direct of a return on your investment. So, I guess I would congratulate them.”
Sinema’s office declined to make her available for an interview. Hannah Hurley, a Sinema spokesperson, acknowledged the senator shares some of the industry’s views on taxation, but rebuffed any suggestion that the donations influenced her thinking.
“Senator Sinema makes every decision based on one criteria: what’s best for Arizona,” Hurley said in a statement. “She has been clear and consistent for over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that support Arizona’s economic growth and competitiveness.”
The American Investment Council, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of private equity, also defended their push to defeat the tax provisions.
“Our team worked to ensure that members of Congress from both sides of the aisle understand how private equity directly employs workers and supports small businesses throughout their communities,” Drew Maloney, the organization’s CEO and president, said in a statement.
Sinema’s defense of wealthy investors’ tax treatment offers a jarring contrast to her background as a Green Party activist and self-styled “Prada socialist” who once likened accepting campaign cash to “bribery” and later called for “big corporations & the rich to pay their fair share” before launching her first campaign for Congress in 2012.
She’s been far more magnanimous since, praising private equity in 2016 from the House floor for providing “billions of dollars each year to Main Street businesses.” After her election to the Senate, Sinema interned during the 2020 congressional recess at a private equity mogul’s boutique winery in northern California.
The soaring contributions from the industry to Sinema trace back to last summer. That’s when she first made clear that she wouldn’t support a carried interest tax increase, as well as other corporate and business tax hikes included in an earlier iteration of Biden’s agenda.
During a two-week period in September alone, Sinema collected $47,100 in contributions from 16 high-ranking officials from the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, records show. Employees and executives of KKR, another private equity behemoth, contributed $44,100 to Sinema during a two-month span in late 2021.
In some cases, the families of private equity managers joined in. David Belluck, a partner at the firm Riverside Partners, gave a $5,800 max-out contribution to Sinema one day in late June. So did three of his college-age kids, with the family collectively donating $23,200, records show.
“I generally support centrist Democrats and her seat is important to keep a Democratic Senate majority,” Belluck said, adding that his family has known Sinema since her election to Congress. “She and I have never discussed private equity taxation.”
The donations from the industry coincide with a $26 million lobbying effort spearheaded by the investment firm Blackstone that culminated on the Senate floor last weekend.
By the time the bill was up for debate during a marathon series of votes, Sinema had already forced Democrats to abandon their carried interest tax increase.
“Senator Sinema said she would not vote for the bill .. unless we took it out,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters last week. “We had no choice.”
But after private equity lobbyists discovered a provision in the bill that would have subjected many of them to a separate 15% corporate minimum tax, they urgently pressed Sinema and other centrist Democrats for changes, according to emails as well as four people with direct knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
“Given the breaking nature of this development we need as many offices as possible weighing in with concerns to Leader Schumer’s office,” Blackstone lobbyist Ryan McConaghy wrote in a Saturday afternoon email obtained by the AP, which included proposed language for modifying the bill. “Would you and your boss be willing to raise the alarm on this and express concerns with Schumer and team?”
McConaghy did not respond to a request for comment.
Sinema worked with Republicans on an amendment that stripped the corporate minimum tax on private equity from the bill, which a handful of vulnerable Democrats also voted for.
“Since she has been in Congress, Kyrsten has consistently supported pro-growth policies that encourage job creation across Arizona. Her tax policy positions and focus on growing Arizona’s economy and competitiveness are longstanding and well known,” Hurley, the Sinema spokesperson, said.
But many in her party disagree. They say the favorable tax treatment does little to boost the overall economy and argue there’s little compelling evidence to suggest its benefits are enjoyed beyond some of the wealthiest investors.
Some of Sinema’s donors make their case.
Blackstone, a significant source of campaign contributions, owns large tracts of real estate in Sinema’s home state, Arizona. The firm was condemned by United Nations experts in 2019 who said Blackstone’s financial model was responsible for a “financialization of housing” that has driven up rents and home costs, “pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income people from their homes.”
Blackstone employees, executives and their family members have given Sinema $44,000 since 2018, records show.
In a statement, Blackstone called the allegations by the U.N. experts “false and misleading” and said all employee contributions are “strictly personal.” The firm added that it was “incredibly proud of its investments in housing.”
Another significant financial services donor is Centerbridge Partners, a New York-based firm that buys up the debt of distressed governments and companies and often uses hardball tactics to extract value. Since 2017, Sinema has collected at least $29,000 from donors associated with the firm, including co-founder Mark Gallogly and his wife, Elizabeth Strickler, records show.
In 2012, Centerbridge Partners purchased Arizona-based restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s for roughly $1 billion. After loading the struggling company up with $675 million of debt, they sold it to another private equity group in 2019, according to Bloomberg News. The company received a $10 million coronavirus aid loan to cover payroll, which the federal government later forgave, but shed jobs and closed locations as it struggled with the pandemic.
Centerbridge Partners was also part of a consortium of hedge funds that helped usher in an era of austerity in Puerto Rico after buying up billions of dollars of the island government’s $72 billion debt — and filing legal proceedings to collect. A subsidiary of Centerbridge Partners was among a group of creditors who repeatedly sued one of the U.S. territory’s pension funds. In one 2016 lawsuit, the group of creditors asked a judge to divert money from a Puerto Rican pension fund in order to collect.
A Centerbridge representative could not provide comment.
Liberal activists in Arizona say they plan to make Sinema’s reliance on donations from wealthy investors a campaign issue when she is up for reelection in 2024.
“There are many takes on how to win, but there is no universe in which it is politically smart to fight for favorable tax treatment of the wealthiest people in the country,” said Emily Kirkland, a political consultant who works for progressive candidates. “It’s absolutely going to be a potent issue.”
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Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group describes as “alarming.”
The advertisements contained false information about the country’s upcoming election, such as promoting the wrong election date, incorrect voting methods and questioning the integrity of the election.
This is the fourth time that the London-based nonprofit has tested Meta’s ability to catch blatant violations of the rules of its most popular social media platform— and the fourth such test Facebook has flubbed. In the three prior instances, Global Witness submitted advertisements containing violent hate speech to see if Facebook’s controls — either human reviewers or artificial intelligence — would catch it. They did not.
“Facebook has identified Brazil as one of its priority countries where it’s investing special resources specifically to tackle election related disinformation,” said Jon Lloyd, senior advisor at Global Witness. “So we wanted to really test out their systems with enough time for them to act. And with the U.S. midterms around the corner, Meta simply has to get this right — and right now.”
Brazil’s national elections will be held on Oct. 2 amid high tensions and disinformation threatening to discredit the electoral process. Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the country. In a statement, Meta said it has “ prepared extensively for the 2022 election in Brazil.”
“We’ve launched tools that promote reliable information and label election-related posts, established a direct channel for the Superior Electoral Court to send us potentially-harmful content for review, and continue closely collaborating with Brazilian authorities and researchers,” the company said.
In 2020 Facebook began requiring advertisers who wish to run ads about elections or politics to complete an authorization process and include “Paid for by” disclaimers on these ads, similar to what it does in the U.S. The increased safeguards follow the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, when Russia used rubles to pay for political ads designed to stoke divisions and unrest among Americans.
Global Witness said it broke these rules when it submitted the test ads (which were approved for publication but were never actually published). The group placed the ads from outside Brazil, from Nairobi and London, which should have raised red flags.
It was also not required to put a “paid for by” disclaimer on the ads and did not use a Brazilian payment method — all safeguards Facebook says it had put in place to prevent misuse of its platform by malicious actors trying to intervene in elections around the world.
“What’s quite clear from the results of this investigation and others is that their content moderation capabilities and the integrity systems that they deploy in order to mitigate some of the risk during election periods, it’s just not working,” Lloyd said.
The group is using ads as a test and not regular posts because Meta claims to hold advertisements to an “even stricter” standard than regular, unpaid posts, according to its help center page for paid advertisements.
But judging from the four investigations, Lloyd said that’s not actually clear.
“We we are constantly having to take Facebook at their word. And without a verified independent third party audit, we just can’t hold Meta or any other tech company accountable for what they say they’re doing,” he said.
Global Witness submitted ten ads to Meta that obviously violated its policies around election-related advertising. They included false information about when and where to vote, for instance and called into question the integrity of Brazil’s voting machines — echoing disinformation used by malicious actors to destabilize democracies around the world.
This will be Brazil’s first election since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking reelection, came to power. Bolsonaro has repeatedly attacked the integrity of the country’s election systems.
“Disinformation featured heavily in its 2018 election, and this year’s election is already marred by reports of widespread disinformation, spread from the very top: Bolsonaro is already seeding doubt about the legitimacy of the election result, leading to fears of a United States-inspired January 6 ‘stop the steal’ style coup attempt,” Global Witness said.
In its previous investigations, the group found that Facebook did not catch hate speech in Myanmar, where ads used a slur to refer to people of east Indian or Muslim origin and call for their deaths; in Ethiopia, where the ads used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia’s three main ethnic groups; and in Kenya, where the ads spoke of beheadings, rape and bloodshed.
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The USD moved higher as concerns in China and Europe from slower growth lead to risk-off sentiment to start the week.
- The EURUSD and GBPUSD moved lower, moving below key MA levels.
- The USDJPY fell more recently on the back of weaker Empire manufacturing data.
- The USDCAD is a big mover to the upside helped by sharply lower oil prices.
- The AUDUSD is falling on risk off and slower China.
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This past Sunday August 14, 2022 Breaux Bridge Police Officers responded to the 900 block of South Poydras between 13:20 pm and 1:30 pm regarding a body located in a ditch.
Investigators located a deceased female, 42, who appeared to have been hit by a vehicle. Investigators further located several vehicle parts near the crime scene and the body.
Investigators believe the suspect vehicle is a new model Lincoln Navigator and would have damage to the right side with a missing right side mirror.
The Breaux Bridge Police Department is currently investigating the incident and asks that the person/ persons involved go speak to investigators.
If you have any information regarding this incident please contact the Breaux Bridge Police Department at 337-332-2186.
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DOVER, Del. - The Dover Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred on Saturday afternoon.
At approximately 2:08 p.m., officers responded to the unit block of Village Drive for a report of multiple shots fired. Upon arrival, officers contacted residents of the area. It was determined that no injuries resulted from the shooting but that an occupied home and an unoccupied vehicle were struck as a result of the gunfire. Witnesses reported that the suspects possibly fled in a red vehicle.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Dover Police Department at 302-736-7130. Callers may remain anonymous. Tips may also be submitted to law enforcement through Delaware Crime Stoppers at 800-TIP-3333 or online at delaware.crimestoppersweb.com; a cash reward is possible for information leading to an arrest.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Verdicts in the Dutch trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are expected to be delivered on Nov. 17, the court announced Monday.
The court said the date is “provisional” and that reading the verdict will likely take half a day.
The marathon trial opened on March 9, 2020, at a top-security courtroom near Amsterdam’s Schiphol, the airport the doomed Kuala Lumpur-bound flight set off from on July 17, 2014. It was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine hours later, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
An international team of investigators and prosecutors named four suspects in the downing: Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. They are charged with murdering all those who died.
None of the suspects has been arrested or sent to the Netherlands, so their trial went ahead in their absence. Only Pulatov is represented by a team of defense lawyers, who say he insists he is innocent.
Prosecutors in December urged the judges to sentence all four men to life imprisonment.
The trial is being held in the Netherlands because about two-thirds of those killed were Dutch.
Prosecutors say the Buk missile system that destroyed the Boeing 777 was transported into Ukraine from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade’s base in Kursk, and after a missile was fired the launching system was then returned to Russia. Russia has denied involvement in the downing of the plane.
“The crew of the Telar pressed the button, but according to the indictment it was Girkin, Dubinskiy, Pulatov and Kharchenko who directed the employment of this weapon in order to serve their own interests,” prosecutor Ward Ferdinandusse told judges as the trial opened.
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There was confusion as residents of Ijora Badia area of Lagos State attempted to lynch a man, suspected to be a terrorist on Monday.
The police in the state confirmed rescuing a man who was allegedly dressed in a female attire but noted that investigation is still ongoing on the incident
The image-maker in charge of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the rescue of the man to the Nigerian Tribune.
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Hundeyin identified the man as a 29-year-old northerner who gave his name as Sanni Gafar.
According to the police spokesperson, Gafar was about to be lynched when policemen rescued him.
The police image maker said: “Preliminary investigation shows that the male suspect, who many alleged disguised as a woman, is Sanni Gafar, aged 29.
“He was found with a bag containing three hammers, six screwdrivers, one pair of pliers, one chisel, five spanners, three rolls of black cellophane, cable wires, 20mm bending spring, a pair of black trousers, and a plastic box of clips.”
Hundeyin, a Superintendent of Police also said: “Investigation is ongoing to ascertain his claim that he is an electrician.”
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Finding a good airfare deal in the first half of 2022 was no simple task. Airfares for the first quarter of 2022 were up 17 percent year over year, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. They started cooling off in June and July and, thankfully, airline ticket price predictions for the fall indicate travel is about to be even more affordable.
Travel booking app Hopper reports that average round-trip domestic airfares for September and October are down 37 percent to $238—or $142 below average summer round-trip domestic flights and 3 percent below 2019 prices. Round-trip international airfares for September and October have dropped as well, to an average of $754, down 19 percent (or $179) from summer prices.
“Demand for flights and hotel stays slows each August as Americans head back to school and work after a summer of vacations. As demand slows, airlines and hotels drop prices in an effort to drive bookings and reservations during this slower period. This low price period between peak summer months and expensive holiday travel season is called the fall shoulder season, and offers budget conscious travelers incredible deals,” Hopper explained in its Fall Shoulder Season Travel Guide.
While the pandemic completely threw off traditional booking and pricing trends, such as peak summer and holiday airfares versus lower fares during slower “shoulder” periods (in the late winter, spring, and early fall), the new data from Hopper suggests that more traditional booking patterns—and pricing—may be returning.
The drop in prices will likely come as welcome relief for travelers who have been grappling with the effects of inflation on their day-to-day consumer spending. It didn’t help that air travel has also been less than ideal—flying in the first half of 2022 was not only pricey but also marred with cancellations, delays, hours-long airport lines, and mountains of lost luggage.
Thankfully, in addition to prices finally starting to ease, airline performance has been improving as well. In July, flight cancellations were down to just 1.6 percent of total scheduled flights, compared to 2.7 percent of flights canceled in June, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
Those looking for a good domestic deal this fall may want to head West. According to Hopper, these U.S. destinations are experiencing the biggest price drops:
- San Diego: average round-trip airfares of $252, down $230 from summer averages
- Portland, Oregon: average round-trip airfares of $314, down $218 from summer averages
- Seattle: average round-trip airfares of $301, down $191 from summer averages
- Los Angeles: average round-trip airfares of $246, down $189 from summer averages
As for international travel, some appealing European cities and several island destinations are seeing the biggest dips, according to Hopper.
- Grenada, Spain: average round-trip airfares of $483, down $460 from summer averages
- Zurich, Switzerland: average round-trip airfares of $691, down $275 from summer averages
- Prague, Czech Republic: average round-trip airfares of $704, down $299 from summer averages
- Male, Maldives: average round-trip airfares $1,183, down $431 from summer averages
- Bali, Indonesia: average round-trip airfares of $1,389, down $465 from summer averages
Hotel prices are easing as well this fall, with the biggest declines in average nightly domestic rates reported by Hopper in Maui, Hawai‘i (average of $572 per night, down $365 from summer); Nashville, Tennessee ($207 per night, down $122 from summer); and Pensacola Beach, Florida ($303 per night, down $135 from summer).
Globally, destinations with the biggest declines in average nightly rates are Providenciales, Turks and Caicos (average of $545 per night, down $265 from summer); Mykonos, Greece ($228 per night, down $136 from summer); and Paradise Island, Bahamas ($330 per night, down $120 from summer).
To score the best airfare deal, Hopper recommends booking at least three weeks in advance for domestic travel and at least four weeks in advance for international trips. Departing on a Tuesday or Wednesday can save you more than $35 per flight and booking into hotels midweek will also result in savings.
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s central bank trimmed a key interest rate Monday to shore up sagging economic growth at a politically sensitive time when President Xi Jinping is trying to extend his hold on power.
The decision suggested Beijing is temporarily setting aside worries over high debt to act to head off a slump before Xi is expected to try to award himself a third five-year term as Communist Party leader at a meeting this fall.
The ruling party has effectively acknowledged it cannot hit this year’s official 5.5% growth target after anti-virus curbs disrupted trade, manufacturing and consumer spending. A crackdown on excessive borrowing in China’s vast real estate industry triggered a plunge in home sales and construction.
“The momentum of economic recovery has slowed,” a government spokesman, Fu Linghui, said at a news conference. “More efforts are needed to consolidate the foundation of economic recovery.”
The People’s Bank of China cut its rate on a one-year loan to 2.75% from 2.85% and injected an extra 400 billion yuan ($60 billion) into lending markets after growth in factory output and retail sales weakened in July and home sales fell by double digits.
The central bank “seems to have decided it now has a more pressing problem,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a report.
The slowdown adds to political headwinds for Xi, China’s most powerful leader since at least the 1980s. He still is widely expected to succeed, but some analysts say he might be forced to compromise by sharing more of his sweeping powers with other party leaders.
Despite downward pressure on growth, party leaders affirmed their commitment to the severe “zero-COVID” strategy in a July 29 statement. It dropped previous references to growth targets after the economy grew by just 2.5% over a year earlier in the first half of 2022.
Growth in factory output in July slowed to 3.8% over a year ago, down 0.1 percentage point from the previous month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Growth in consumer spending fell to 2.7%, down 0.4 percentage points from June.
Sales of housing and other commercial real estate fell 28.8% from a year earlier.
Beijing is forcing developers to reduce debt levels, which caused economic growth to plunge in mid-2021, disrupting a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The crackdown has bankrupted smaller developers and fueled fears of a default by the biggest, Evergrande Group, which owes $310 billion to banks and bondholders.
The “downward trend” in real estate has a “great impact on economic growth,” said Fu, the government spokesman.
The rate cut and extra money for lending are small compared with China’s $17 trillion-a-year economy, the world’s second-largest. Instead, such changes are widely seen as a signal to the state-owned banking industry to lend more and cut charges for commercial borrowers.
The ruling party is struggling to revive activity after Shanghai, the country’s business capital, and other industrial centers were shut for weeks starting in late March to fight virus outbreaks.
Managers of the Shanghai port, the world’s busiest, say shipping is back to normal, but economists say it might be months before the flow of smartphones, home appliances, consumer electronics and other goods through complex supply lines fully recovers.
A survey of manufacturers released earlier showed activity in July contracted. Indicators of new orders, exports and employment declined.
Retails sales were off 0.7% from a year earlier in the first half after plunging 11% in April following the temporary shutdown of Shanghai and other cities.
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The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is receiving more calls regarding illegal door-to door activity.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is receiving more calls regarding illegal door-to door activity.
The sheriff’s office says it’s happening all over the county.
According to Captain George Meadows with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, the sheriff’s office gets at least one call every day.
“Recently, it’s all alarm companies just trying to sell security systems,” he said. “The bottom line is they’re doing it illegally, because they don’t have permits.”
Bibb County has an ordinance in place that states requires a permit to solicit sales.
You can get that permit at the Macon-Bibb Tax Commissioners Office. Captain Meadows says there are a few steps involved.
“The tax commissioner’s office collects the information and sends it over the sheriff’s office,” he said. “We do the background checks and approve it and then send it back to the tax commissioner, who issues a permit.”
Once you receive the permit, you are required to wear a badge at all times when you’re going door-to-door.
The Better Business Bureau says illegal activity happens most often during the summer months.
President and CEO Kelvin Collins says there are ways to stay safe.
“We just want consumers to ask questions, report what you find to be unusual and don’t buy something that you’re not necessarily looking for,” he said.
Collins says if you do open your door to someone trying to sell you a product, you should never feel pressured to buy anything.
“If you feel uncomfortable at any point, ask them to leave,” he said. “If they don’t leave, call 911.”
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Alleged domestic dispute ends with Macon man dead
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — An alleged domestic dispute turned deadly this weekend in the 1300 block of Woodliff Street. It happened Sunday morning just before 1:30 am.
The male victim, 45-year-old Deondra Fitchett, was shot and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Coroner Leon Jones.
Bibb County Sheriff’s Investigators took the suspect, 27-year-old Tashanie Marie Negron into custody she is being held, without bond, for the charge of Murder.
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Fun in the sun continues to begin the new week.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Conditions in Middle Georgia are remaining dry and pleasant behind last week’s cold front.
Today
It was a pleasant morning to begin our Monday around Middle Georgia. Temperatures were in the upper 60s and lower 70s with dew points in the mid 60s, making for a drier morning. There were a few high level clouds moving in from the north as well. Those will cover our sky throughout the day today, however they will allow plenty of sun to get through. As a result we will warm up nicely into the lower 90s across the region. Feels like temperatures will be in the upper 90s across Middle Georgia later this afternoon.
Storm chances for today are overall low, however a weak low pressure system off to the northeast could cause a few storms to make their way in from the north this evening and into tonight. Storm activity should be pretty isolated with most of the region likely not seeing any rain today or tonight.
Overnight we could see a couple of storms, especially ahead of midnight. Once midnight passes, however, we should see the storm activity taper off and much of the cloud cover clear out. The humidity will be a bit higher tomorrow morning along with our low temperatures which will be in the lower 70s. A couple of areas could wake up to a bit of fog during the sunrise hours.
Tomorrow
Tuesday is anticipated to be the nicest day that we have this week. Sunshine will be abundant through the afternoon with cloud cover remaining isolated at most. One or two stray storms will be possible in the evening, however the vast majority of Middle Georgia will see no rain. Highs will be in the lower 90s across the board once again as well.
Overnight skies will basically be clear around the region with only a few cirrus clouds passing overhead. Rain activity is not expected during the overnight hours tomorrow into Wednesday. Lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s around Middle Georgia, drying out a bit when compared to Monday night/Tuesday morning.
Wednesday and Beyond
Wednesday should also be pleasant overall, however our cloud cover looks to increase greatly during the back half of the day. Highs will be in the lower 90s around the region with a couple of isolated storms likely during the afternoon and evening hours. Cloud cover will increase further heading into Wednesday night, and more storms are likely during the early overnight hours.
Storm chances will ramp up greatly beginning Thursday and will remain high during the afternoon and evening hours the rest of the week and into the weekend. Forecast highs are dropping into the mid 80s during this timespan with lows in the upper 60s, however humidity will be much higher as a result of the widespread rainfall.
As for the tropics, the NHC is watching one cluster of storms in the Atlantic Basin. At this time they have designated it to have a 0% chance for development over the next 5 days, meaning it is a non-threat.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Milledgeville hosting first ‘Summer Sips’ contest
A drink contest is underway in downtown Milledgeville and will continue through the end of August.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A drink contest is underway in downtown Milledgeville and will continue through the end of August.
The contest, called “Milledgeville Summer Sips,” was created as a joint effort between Visit Milledgeville and Milledgeville Main Street as a way to promote the local food and drink industry.
13 businesses are participating, each with their own specialty off-menu drinks that all cost $10 or less.
Bailey Warr, the General Manager and Head Roster at Blackbird Coffee, talked with us about how exciting it is to be part of the competition.
“They had done a burger week previously that we were not able to participate in unfortunately, as much as we tried to come up with a burger latte, so they came up with a drink special this time for everybody to participate in, so we were able to actually be a part of that,” she said.
Another participant is Downtown Milledgeville Nutrition. Owner Melissa Daniel told us the contest has been good for drumming up foot traffic and a lot of people have shown interest in buying the drink.
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Motorcyclist killed in Riverside Drive accident
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal traffic collision in the 2800 block of Riverside Drive. It happened Saturday night around 7:48p.m..
It was reported that a motorcycle collided with a vehicle, while headed south on Riverside Drive. The motorcyclist let go of the motorcycle and then slid into the northbound lanes of travel. The motorcyclist was struck by a second vehicle that was headed north on Riverside Drive . The motorcyclist was pronounced deceased at the scene by Deputy Coroner Miley. It was stated that the occupants of the two other vehicles were not injured.
The victim has been identified as 26-year-old Quade Raymond Cabral of Marietta.
This fatal collision is under investigation. Anyone with information in reference to this collision is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 and ask to speak with a Fatality Investigator.
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Porcelain protester leaves strong message for Fort Valley leaders
A toilet was placed outside Fort Valley City Hall over the weekend with a message to the mayor and city council: "Get off your butt and do something."
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — It was a protest that was flushed away almost as soon as it was noticed.
It was business as usual outside of Fort Valley City Hall Monday. You’d never know a toilet was sitting outside it over the weekend.
The toilet had a message for Mayor Jeffery Lundy and Fort Valley City Council: “Get off your butt and do something.”
“When I first saw this, my response was thank you for holding us accountable,” Mayor Lundy explained.
Mayor Lundy says he’s not upset with the porcelain protester. He wants them to come forward so they can talk about issues.
“I’m grateful you chose the platform to get this kind of attention,” he said. “Now come down here and tell us what we need to do, what we’re not doing, so that you don’t feel as though your concern is going unnoticed.”
Mayor Pro Tem Alonzo Allen saw the images of the toilet on Facebook. He says he was disgusted at first but ultimately he found it cute.
“I like the penmanship on it,” Allen said. “I think the person did it real nice and neatly, although the thing they put it on wouldn’t be considered real neat. It was kind of comical.”
Mayor Pro Tem Allen says even though he finds the stunt funny, he says the city does have an open door policy.
“If you’ve got a concern, please bring it to us, either me or the mayor or both of us at the same time,” he said. “We’ll be glad to sit down and discuss it with you. We can’t always say we can solve it, but we can know where you stand and know what the problem is so we can approach it.”
Though the toilet is gone, Mayor Lundy says he plans to keep a reminder of it in his office for the future.
“I didn’t tell anyone to remove it,” he said. “It left on its own like it came on its own, so for keepsake, I’m going to hang this [the picture of the toilet] on the wall,” Mayor Lundy said.
Mayor Lundy says he’s not launching an investigation into who left the toilet outside of City Hall.
41NBC called the Fort Valley Police Department to see if they’re investigating who did it. Police had not returned our call as of Monday night.
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Senator Jon Ossoff announces insulin price cap for senior citizens
Insulin prices for senior citizens will soon be capped at $35 per month.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Insulin prices for senior citizens will soon be capped at $35 per month.
Senator Jon Ossoff was in Macon at the Elaine Lucas Senior Center Monday to make the announcement. He says starting next year, seniors who need insulin won’t have to pay more than $35 per month for the life-saving medication.
Senator Ossoff says the legislation that made this possible has been a long time coming.
“We stood up to the pharmaceutical industry to get this done,” Senator Ossoff said. “I want to emphasize this is not just an idea, this is not just a bill that’s been introduced. This is legislation that’s passed both houses of Congress that the president will sign into law in just a few days.”
Senator Ossoff says the legislation also includes a provision that caps co-pays for prescriptions at $2,000 a year for seniors through Medicare Part D.
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Staying dry Tuesday ahead of a rainy week
We get one dry day before the week turns soggy for Middle Georgia. The good news is that rain will keep temps cooler than normal.
We had an excellent weekend of dry weather for Middle Georgia, but storms this evening are just a starter for what will be a wet week.
Tuesday will perhaps be the only exception, with just a chance of a passing shower.
Otherwise Tuesday should be pleasant and partly cloudy with highs in the 90s.
Wednesday will usher in a wet weather pattern that will be sticking around for the week.
A cold front will be stalling as a stationary boundary over the southeast.
This will pump additional moisture and uplift into Middle Georgia, resulting in off and on rain chances.
Widespread severe storms are not expected but a few could be strong.
I know a lot of us will be out and about on Friday for high school football and I hate to break it, but it looks pretty soggy.
This will continue through the weekend as the weather pattern kind of gets stuck.
Now this doesn’t mean that it will rain all day, every day, but I wouldn’t leave the house without an umbrella starting Wednesday.
Despite the rainy forecast, rain totals for the next 5 days should stay around 2-3″.
Widespread flooding is not expected, but we could see some urban flooding in spots that see strong thunderstorms.
The good news with all the rain in the forecast is that highs will be much cooler than normal.
Through the weekend we should consistently see highs in the 80s with lows in the 70s.
Rain sticks around through next week as well.
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The Macon Touchdown Club previews its 7th Annual Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic
The 7th Annual Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic will take place Saturday, August 20, at Mercer University.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Touchdown Club met at Mercer University to preview its 7th Annual Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic.
The four teams participating this season include the Northeast Raiders, the Mary Persons Bulldogs, the Northside Eagles and the Jones County Greyhounds.
This will be the Raiders, Bulldogs and Greyhounds first time competing in the Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic, so their athletes are ready for the big stage.
“It’s really exciting just knowing it’s a really big game. Being on a college field, you know we all plan on going to college, so it’s kind of a little taste of it, so it’s going to be a real fun time,” said Eagles free safety Ricardo Jones.
“It’s really cool just because it’s a lot bigger stadium than we normally play in. There’s going to be a bunch of people that are there that aren’t just fans for us, but maybe staying from the other game,” said Bulldogs quarterback Logan Hickman.
The 7th Annual Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic will take place Saturday, Aug. 20, at Mercer University.
The first game features Northside facing Jones County at 4 p.m., while game two features Northeast facing Mary Persons at 7:30 p.m.
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An 8-year-old in Wisconsin is adding a little business to the front and party in the back.
Emmitt Bailey, who goes by the nickname "mullet boy," hopes his hairdo can help him win the kids division of the USA mullet championship, NBC affiliate WEAU reported.
Voters on Facebook helped Bailey advance to the top 25.
"It's extremely fun to watch the votes," Emmitt's dad Eric Bailey told the news outlet. "So it started out at, I think there was 600 kids that made the facebook cut. Then they went to 100, and then all of a sudden we were watching the votes, and he kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and then it went to the 25."
The winner of the contest will get $2,500.
Emmitt Bailey says he plans to buy a go-kart if he wins.
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(WXMI) — Fifth Season has recalled select lots of its Crunchy Sesame Salad Kits due to undeclared milk and eggs, according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
We’re told the dressing packets may contain milk and eggs, which the FDA says is not specified on labels.
The recall affects salad kits that bear the UPC code “52070008147” and “best by” dates of Aug. 15–16, 2022, the FDA tells us.
Consumers who may be allergic to milk or eggs are instructed to throw the affected products away.
No complaints have been filed in connection to the recall.
Those with questions are encouraged to reach out to Rich Mosgrove or Hatie Gondoza by calling 412-899-2268.
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Police raid ESN/IPOB camp in Enugu, exhume decaying body of missing police officer
Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command drawn from the Tactical Squads and Operation Restore Peace have raided IPOB/ESN camp in a forest at Agu-Ibeje in Enugu-Ezike community of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area.
Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Enugu.
Ndukwe said during the raid, the operatives neutralized one person, and recovered firearms, ammunition, motor vehicles as well as motorcycles and other incriminating exhibits.
The statement also added that the decaying body of a police officer, Okpanachi Johnson, who was declared missing was exhumed.
The statement reads in full: “In pursuance of the crime-fighting strategies devised by the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Abubakar Lawal, fdc, to rid the State of criminals and their activities, Police Operatives of the Command drawn from Tactical Squads and Operation Restore Peace, between 11th and 12th August 2022, carried out a tactical and intelligence-driven dusk to dawn raid of IPOB/ESN camp in a forest at Agu-Ibeje in Enugu-Ezike community of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area.
“The hoodlums, on sighting the Operatives, engaged them in a gun duel, which led to the neutralization of one of them while several others escaped with varying degrees of fatal gunshot wounds, due to the superior firepower of the Operatives.
“The operation led to the discovery and exhumation from a shallow grave in the camp, the corpse of their male victim identified as Okpanachi Johnson, a Police Officer serving in Igbo-Eze North Police Division of the Command, who had gone missing on 30/07/2022, with all effort made to trace his whereabouts proving abortive. Also recovered at the Camp are the following exhibits: twelve (12) firearms, including one AR-K2 Assault, six (6) Pump Action guns, one (1) locally-made Berretta-like pistol and five (5) locally-fabricated double-barreled guns; ninety-eight (98) live cartridges; two (2) Machetes, one (1) Digger, one (1) Battle axe and one (1) Hacksaw; five (5) motor vehicles, including three (3) Toyota Sienna minivans, one (1) Honda Pilot Jeep and one (1) Hiace (Hummer) bus loaded with assorted Ankara fabrics, all reported to have been snatched from their owners at different times within the area by the hoodlums; twenty (20) different brands of motorcycles with their plate numbers removed; one (1) Police bullet-proof vest; one (1) pair of Police Camouflage uniform; one (1) pair of Military camouflage uniform with a cap and Military singlet”.
“Others include one (1) piece of red-black-green coloured clothing identified as Biafra flag and another five (5) pieces of masquerade-like attires of the said flag colours; one (1) HP laptop with its bag; twenty two (22) different brands of mobile phones; six (6) different brands of Mp3 players; one (1) Canon camera, Six (6) torchlights.
“Three (3) rolls of cello-tapes; one (1) air pumping machine; one (1) small yellow-coloured generating set; fifteen (15) fabric armless and five (5) plastic chairs; a set of musical equipment, including band set, piano, guiter and speakers, the hoodlums are alleged to have stolen after invading a church in the area; seven (7) school bags; one (1) Camp bed and twenty (21) pieces of table spoons.
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“In a related development, the Police Operatives, on 08/08/2022 at about 9.15am, recovered two (2) AK-47 rifles with four (4) all loaded with a total of sixty four (64) rounds of 7.62mm caliber of live ammunition (currently in the custody of 82 Division of the Nigerian Army Enugu), one (1) locally-made cut-to-size gun, one (1) Dane gun, one (1) Lexus RX 330 and one (1) RX 300 Jeeps, one Honda Pilot Jeep, twenty five (25) machetes, two (2) axes, one (1) dagger, four (4) phones, a Military camouflage uniform, two (2) Forest uniform trousers and fetish items suspected to be charms.
“The recovery is sequel to the Operatives swift response to a distress call alleging that IPOB/ESN hoodlums invaded and set ablaze the house of a local vigilante at Oduma community in Aninri Local Government Area on the said date.
“Meanwhile, the Commissioner, while commending the Operatives for the successful execution of the operations without any casualty recorded by the Command, has charged them to remain focused on actualizing the overall goal of ridding the State of unrepentant criminal elements.
“He further calls on residents of the State to remain law-abiding, vigilant and support the Command with credible information and/or intelligence it requires to combat criminals and their activities. He also enjoins individuals and owners of medical facilities to quickly report anyone sighted with gunshot injuries to the Police.”
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Located about three hours north of Manhattan, Saratoga Springs is a small city just south of the Adirondack Park that comes to life in a big way every summer when its horse racing track season starts. Its population explodes, with eager patrons flocking to teller windows, placing bets on a catalog of horses, cheering from the stands, and either celebrating their wins or drowning their losses at one of the many bars and restaurants downtown. It’s a fast-paced, lively, and loud experience.
But there’s another, quieter part of Saratoga. The city was built on an abundance of natural springs, which you can find in Saratoga Spa State Park, and is the perfect place for a break. Here’s a guide to exploring this destination for some peace and quiet.
Drink up the health benefits
Saratoga Springs is known as “the Spa City,” and only a few days exploring the 2,370-acre Saratoga Spa State Park are needed to explain why. Throughout Saratoga, people fill up water bottles or other containers at the free 21 natural springs. Each spring spouts cold, naturally carbonated water with a different mix of such minerals as sodium, potassium, magnesium, iron, and calcium. They offer a wide range of benefits, depending on which you drink.
Take the water from the Red Spring, which is rich in iron and believed to help with skin disorders, versus the centrally located Orenda Spring, which is touted to help with healthy blood. Smack in the middle of downtown Saratoga, across from the Congress Park carousel, Hathorn Spring One sits under a picture-perfect gazebo; it is the deepest of all the springs. The water here tips the metallic scale in taste but is believed to help with digestive issues.
One of the most popular sites is the State Seal Spring, on Avenue of the Pines, across from the automobile museum and former bottling plant. It’s the most palatable, with a crisp, clean taste.
How to explore Saratoga Spa State Park
A self-guided tour of the springs is an easy feat with a map and information in hand, while fully guided tours are led by the state park on weekends, starting at the Creekside Classroom, a four-season education center with a focus on environmental programs.
While drinking water sounds less like a trip itinerary and more like a daily reminder, it’s an ideal way to spend a few days enjoying the park as a whole—walking the trails, doing a taste test of a handful of the springs, and soaking in the mineral baths.
Roosevelt Baths & Spa
The most famous place to soak is in the Roosevelt Baths & Spa, which is part of the Gideon Putnam Hotel. The historic building dates back to 1935 and pays homage to the man who essentially saved the springs with an act to preserve them and the entire city: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (He was an advocate of hydrotherapy himself, to help treat the effects of his polio.) As Governor of New York State, he funded and developed the Roosevelt Baths project.
Roosevelt Baths & Spa’s location on the edge of the park and across from the Hall of Springs building creates a haven where nature and wellness come together with an expansive courtyard, tall arches, and a reflective pond. Still showcasing the original subway tile, the spa taps into the Lincoln spring for mineral soaking treatments in its 42 private treatment rooms.
The soaking experience
The spa treatment at Roosevelt starts with a fluffy robe in the relaxation room before an attendant leads you to a treatment room, armed with some fun facts about the spa building and instructions for a 20-minute or 40-minute soak (which range in price from $30 to $55). The water’s brown tint—due to oxidation from iron in the water—may not appear inviting, but as soon as you step into the large tub you’ll be hooked.
The spring water is naturally cold at 55 degrees, but the tub manages to keep the perfect warm temperature due to the added warm bathwater, with a touch of effervescence from the minerals. You can add cold water as needed, before the delivery of a warm towel signals the end of the soak. There’s an entire spa menu with typical massages, facials, and other treatments, which can booked in tandem with your soak.
It may be odd to think that only a handful of miles from the park’s serene Roosevelt Baths, throngs of people are taking their chances on horses like Hot Rod Charlie and Mostly Harmless while shouting from the grandstands. But sometimes chaos makes you appreciate the other side of things: quiet moments, relaxation, and mindful rejuvenation. With the city’s beauty, natural springs for drinking, and historic mineral baths, Saratoga Springs is its own trifecta for slow travel in a refreshing weekend getaway—something we could all use now and again.
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Bibb Sheriff’s Office investigating death of 9-month-old child
Investigators were called to the hospital around 4:45 Tuesday afternoon.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County Sheriff’s Office investigators are investigating the death of an infant Tuesday afternoon.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says investigators were called to the hospital at 4:41 p.m.
They were told a 9-month-old had been traveling in a vehicle with her mother and two siblings throughout the day, and that when the family arrived home, the infant was found to be unresponsive.
Paramedics were called to the home and took the infant to the hospital. The infant was later pronounced dead. An autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME.
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City of Perry hosts Black History Month banner contest
The City of Perry is adding a more personalized element to Black History Banners it plans to display in February.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The City of Perry is adding a more personalized element to Black History Banners it plans to display in February.
Residents can submit their artwork on what Black History Month means to them as part of the city’s banner contest. The city will display the artwork on banners along Courtney Hodges Boulevard next year. Senior communications manager Tabitha Clark says there are categories to choose from depending on your age.
“Councilwoman Bynam Grace was very passionate about making sure we celebrate the heritage and the history of the African Americans who made Perry what it is today,” she said. “But we wanted to expound on that. Not only is history important, but in Black History Month as well, it’s important to celebrate the current and the future.”
The deadline to submit artwork is September 30. You can submit your work online at the City of Perry website.
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Community garden keeping residents active
Atrium Health Navicent's Carlyle Senior Living Center is getting residents active with a garden run by residents.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Atrium Health Navicent’s Carlyle Senior Living Center is getting residents active with a garden run by residents.
The garden started three years ago as a way for residents to stay healthy mentally and physically.
Tommy Goings, a resident at Carlyle Senior Living Community, says there’s a sense of pride in growing your own food.
“The main thing is you put a garden in for several reasons,” he said. “It’s pleasing to the eye to look at the beautiful flowers, and the next thing is it’s good for your soul, and then the next thing is watching it grow.”
Chief of Family Medicine for Atrium Health Navicent Dr. Harry Strothers says gardening can help improve mental and physical health.
“When you’re planting things, when you’re weeding a garden that is being active, that’s bending, that’s moving, that’s reaching, but usually it’s ways that aren’t going to hurt you,” he said.
According to Dr. Strothers, studies show being outside can help improve health.
He also says elderly patients who garden tend to be healthier.
Dr. Strothers recommends gardening early to avoid the hottest part of the day.
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First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19
First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19.
CNN reports that a statement from the White House says she started to show cold-like symptoms Monday night.
Although she tested negative on a rapid test, a second PCR test came back positive.
Biden is fully vaccinated, and double-boosted. She’ll be taking Paxlovid and is isolating from her staff and others for at least 5 days.
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Macon man charged with aggravated assault after shooting and chase at Harrison Rd Walmart
(41NBC/WMGT) — A 66-year-old man has been charged with 3 counts of aggravated assault in connection to an incident that happened on Wilson Road in early August.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s office, the incident in question happened at 11:37 a.m. on August 9th, where there was an encounter between Kenneth Thomas Cravey and 3 other individuals, all male, and gunfire was exchanged.
After the gunshots were fired, Cravey chased the 3 people down Columbus Road. The vehicle chase led to the parking lot of the Harrison Road Walmart by Eisenhower Parkway, where the vehicle with the 3 people lost control and stuck a tree, leading to the 3 running from the vehicle towards the Murphy’s USA gas station. Cravey remained in the parking lot of the Walmart.
After the BCSO consulted the DA’s office about the investigation, Kenneth Cravey was charged and taken into custody. He is currently being held in the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center without bond for 3 counts of aggravated assault.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Mercer University receives grant to help autism patients
Mercer University wants to make sure families in rural communities get more resources for kids with autism.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Mercer University wants to make sure families in rural communities get more resources for kids with autism.
Mercer School of Medicine in Macon and Savannah received a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH).
$142,500 will be awarded each year for up to three years.
According to Mercer University, the funding will be used to develop education and resources to help detect autism early. It will help children as young as 1-year-old.
Sarah Rotschafer, an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience with Mercer University in Macon, says the project will involve various steps.
“We would like to have established a platform that incorporates caregivers and people with autism all throughout Georgia,” she said. “They can share credited resources with each other and provide advise and guidance to people who are new to being diagnosed.”
The goal is to help physicians in rural areas with treatment and testing.
Mercer says everything should be established within the next six months.
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Monkeypox vaccine available in Middle Georgia
The North Central Health District is now offering the monkeypox vaccine at two locations.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The North Central Health District is now offering the monkeypox vaccine at two locations.
The vaccine is available at the Houston County Health Department and the Baldwin County Health Department.
It’s given out in a two-shot distribution similar to the Covid-19 vaccine.
The health district currently reports 11 cases of monkeypox in its area.
Public information officer Michael Hokanson says an individual can only be tested for monkeypox when a rash develops.
“So if a person does not display the rash associated with monkeypox they can not get tested,” he said. “We have to take samples from the rash itself.”
Vaccine appointments can be made on the state health department’s website.
Hokanson says if you suspect you have contracted monkeypox or if you’ve come into contact with someone who does, call your local health department before arriving.
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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office makes several arrests in drug investigation
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office recently began an investigation into complaints concerning drug activity amongst a large number of people hanging out at 2 addresses on Stokes Store Road and Virginia Lee Blvd.
The investigation began on Monday, August 15th, during which authorities arrested several people with active warrants and seized illegal drugs at the 2 locations in question.
MCSO says the following were arrested and charged:
David Daniels – Possession of Methamphetamine
John Cox – Possession of Methamphetamine; Possession of Drug related objects;Possession of marijuana more than one ounce
Austin Shephard – Wanted by Forsyth Police Department for Felony Theft by taking
Jasmyn Parrish – Wanted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Appear on traffic offenses
Max McDaniel – Wanted by Butts County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Appear on traffic offenses
Nicholas Johnson – Wanted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for Battery; Wanted by Lamar County Sheriff’s Office for Violation of Probation (dangerous drugs); Wanted by Henry County for Violation of Probation and multiple other charges
And Derek Sappenfield, who is still at large, is wanted for Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer.
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One more day of sun before clouds and rain return
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Sunny skies will continue to dominate Middle Georgia this afternoon.
Today
Skies around Middle Georgia were clear heading into the sunrise hours, but a number of low level clouds filled in as temperatures reached their low point. We will continue to see those clouds clear out as we approach lunchtime, and mostly sunny skies will take over from there. Highs this afternoon are primarily in the lower 90s around Middle Georgia with heat indices reaching into the mid 90s. There will not be much cloud cover to shelter from the sun and heat later, and the clouds that are present will mainly be upper level cirrus clouds. Those often let a decent amount of sunlight through, so sunblock is necessary for anyone wanting to spend the afternoon outside.
Another reason today is a great one to get outside is because of the low rain chances. We may see one or two stray storms in the region this afternoon and evening, and that is it. Additionally more cloud cover will be making its way in tomorrow morning, bringing gloomy conditions with it. Those who wish to enjoy the sun should do so today.
Skies will be mostly clear for the first half of tonight, and rain is not expected. We could begin to see some cloud cover ahead of the sunrise tomorrow, however the models are in disagreement on time of arrival, meaning we could also see a pretty sunrise. Lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s around the region.
Tomorrow
Whether or not the day begins with cloud cover or a pretty sunrise, we will see plenty of clouds. As mentioned above, models are not entirely in agreement on when the clouds will pile in, just that we will see a whole bunch of them by the end of tomorrow. More than likely we will see them begin to fill in more during the middle of the day. Highs for tomorrow are currently forecast to be in the mid to upper 80s, however the earlier the clouds arrive, the cooler it will be in the afternoon.
Storm chances for tomorrow will be higher than today, but for the afternoon it will likely just be a few sporadic showers. We will begin to see the storm chances climb more following the sunset tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow night will be a cloudy one and a wet one for a good portion of Middle Georgia. Storms will begin to move in more as we push past midnight, with widespread rain likely taking over the majority of the region as we head into the sunrise hours of Thursday. Get your rain gear ready, you will need it out the door for work and school Thursday morning. Low temperatures tomorrow night into Thursday morning will be in the lower 70s and upper 60s.
Thursday and Beyond
Thursday will be a wet day for most if not all of Middle Georgia as heavy rain moves through, especially during the first half of the day. Some scattered storms will be possible during the afternoon and evening, and some may persist into the overnight hours. High temperatures could range from the upper 70s into the mid 80s, but most of the region will likely be in the lower 80s.
This pattern will continue through Friday and into Saturday before clearing up a bit. Storms will still be possible Sunday and into the start of next week, however the rain will likely not be as widespread, allow temperatures to climb back up a bit.
The tropics are also overall still quiet right now, however the NHC has identified a cluster of storms they are watching in the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It has a 0% chance of imminent formation (within the next two days), however there is a 20% chance for development once it crosses to the northwest side of the peninsula within the next 5 days.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Rain and cooler temps settle in for the week
It has been a nice day across Middle Georgia with plenty of sunshine and highs in the upper 80s.
The dry weather will be coming to an end on Wednesday as our next weather pattern starts to set up.
A combo of mid-level forcing and continued moisture will spark up a few showers and storms through the day.
Although we could see some sunshine, expect partly to mostly cloudy skies through the day with highs in the mid 80s.
The trend will continue through the rest of the week as a stationary boundary sits over the area.
This doesn’t mean that it will be raining all day, every day, but there will be periods of showers with some heavy rain.
Temperatures through the rest of the week will be staying mainly in the mid and low 80s, mostly dependent on rain and cloud coverage.
While we are not forecasting a widespread flooding threat, many areas could see significant rainfall through the week.
Most of Middle Georgia will likely pick up 1-3″ of rain over the next 5 days.
Rain will be sticking around in the forecast for the foreseeable future, but should keep high temps well below normal for this time of year.
Overnight lows hover around 70 for the week.
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Senator Jon Ossoff announces bill to fund law enforcement and mental health
Senator Jon Ossoff visited Macon Tuesday to make an announcement about a bill he introduced that will fund law enforcement and mental health services.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Senator Jon Ossoff visited Macon Tuesday to make an announcement about a bill he introduced that will fund law enforcement and mental health services.
It’s on its way to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
When a person is in crisis, one of the calls they often make is to 911. Many times, first responders and law enforcement respond to those calls, but they’re often not equipped to do it. That’s why Senator Ossoff introduced the bill.
“The mental health crisis in our country is something that impacts everybody,” Senator Ossoff said.
Senator Ossoff’s bill passed the House and the Senate with bipartisan support.
Colonel Henderson Carswell with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says funding from the bill will help them in two ways.
“It’s going to be able to help us contact services in the field,” Carswell said. “It’s something we haven’t been able to do in the past, and I think it’s going to be very effective in helping us deal with these matters. The second is the training aspect of it.”
Kathryn Dennis, President of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, is thrilled the legislation passed through Congress. She says mental health is the number one concern of the non-profits she works with.
“To have this support for the programs that are here, plus to train our law enforcement, because they really are the people that are there on the front lines,” she said. “A lot of people don’t need to be going to jail. They need help, mental help, and most of our homeless population is the same way.”
Colonel Carswell says training is essential to having favorable outcomes in mental health situations.
“This is just another step forward in bringing people together,” he said. “That’s what I love about this particular bill: it’s bipartisan. It’s bringing people together, because this is a serious issue we all have to deal with. I think we have to know how to deal with it properly so that we’ll not only save lives but make our community safer.”
According to Senator Ossoff’s press secretary, the bill reauthorizes the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration from 2023 to 2027. $54 million a year in grant money is available for local governments and agencies to apply for.
Macon-Bibb County received a $750,000 grant through the program in 2021. The money helped implement a project supporting law enforcement and prosecutors in responding to threats of targeted violence.
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YKK $125M expansion into Macon on its way
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –A $125 million business expansion is on its way to Bibb County.
Governor Kemp announced Tuesday that YKK AP America Inc. will be expanding to include a new manufacturing facility and additional machinery and equipment in Bibb County. The new facility will create 100 new jobs in addition to the 250 jobs YKK AP already supports in Macon. The new facility will be located at Macon-Bibb’s I-75 Industrial Park, at a Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development certified site. After completion, the company plans to relocate its operations and employees from its current site on Ocmulgee Boulevard to the new facility.
The Macon facility will become home to the company’s residential division, which manufactures vinyl windows and doors for builders and homeowners. It will serve as a model plant for future North American manufacturing facilities, with new technologies, as well as sustainable manufacturing processes.
Operations are expected to begin in early 2024, and the company is currently hiring for several positions– anyone interested can learn more and apply at careers.ykkap.com.
YKK AP is a technology-oriented manufacturer of commercial facade systems and residential windows and doors. It specializes in architectural products for commercial and residential buildings.
Governor Kemp had this to say concerning the expansion:
“Being the No. 1 state for business doesn’t just mean attracting new investments. It is also our priority to ensure companies already operating in Georgia can grow and thrive,” and, “We’re excited YKK AP recognizes the advantages of doing business in middle Georgia and has chosen to expand their relationship with the Macon community through 100 new jobs.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it will use new methods to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to throw a party.
The company said Tuesday it has introduced technology that examines the would-be renter’s history on Airbnb, how far they live from the home they want to rent, whether they’re renting for a weekday or weekend, and other factors.
Airbnb said the screening system that it is rolling out for listings in the United States and Canada has been tested since last October in parts of Australia, where it produced a 35% drop in unauthorized parties.
The San Francisco-based company said the technology is designed to prevent a customer’s request for reservation from ever reaching the host of the property involved. Airbnb said people blocked from renting an entire home might be able to book a single room because the host is more likely to be around.
Airbnb has been under growing pressure to clamp down on parties since 2019, when a Halloween house party in a San Francisco suburb ended with five people dead in a shooting.
The following year, Airbnb announced a worldwide party ban at its listings and banned people under 25 from renting an entire house near their home unless they had a record of positive reviews on the site. The party ban was initially cast as a temporary health measure during the pandemic but was made permanent in June.
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