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Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Georgia regional airports to get upgrades, US Senators secure $13 million for projects
U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock secured $13 million in federal grants to upgrade regional airports across the state. According to a release, the funding will be used to facilitate more than 30 projects. 'Georgia's airports are a key driver of job creation and economic competitiveness. Alongside Sen. Rev. Warnock, we are pleased to announce this funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for airport upgrades across the State of Georgia. Our bipartisan infrastructure law will continue to deliver long-overdue upgrades to Georgia's infrastructure for years to come,' Ossoff said in a statement. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: Marietta hotel fined women hundreds for smoking, but they say other activities tripped sensors Store owners disappointed they won't be part of renovated Cobb Galleria Centre If you're picking up someone at the airport, the cell lot will now have a new name As far as what the funding will handle, the senators said it will support development and infrastructure projects 'to help ensure Georgia's airports have the resources they need to support local businesses and communities.' In the metro Atlanta area, upgrade funding is headed to airports in Rome, Athens, Fulton County, DeKalb County, Griffin, Dallas, Morgan Newnan and Lawrenceville, as well as several others in the region. 'This investment in Georgia's aviation infrastructure is critical to our state and its economy,' Warnock said. 'I was proud to help pass a bipartisan infrastructure law that centers the people, and this new funding is a testament to the good we can accomplish when we reach across the aisle. I will continue to do all I can to strengthen Georgia's aviation economy.' [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Fox News
3 days ago
- General
- Fox News
GOP Georgia Senate candidate targets vulnerable Jon Ossoff in ad depicting transgender 'fan'
FIRST ON FOX: House Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., is taking aim at Georgia's senior senator in a new ad highlighting the vulnerable Democrat's stance on transgender student athletes. Carter, who is running for Senate, is releasing a 30-second advertisement titled, "Ossoff Fan," which features a purported transgender woman complaining about Carter's own Republican stances. It opens by showing a transgender woman, played by a stubble-chinned biological male wearing a wig and a dress, sitting in a living room beside a dumbbell watching Carter on Fox News. "He's been MAGA from the beginning," the person says on the phone. "He's been loyal to Trump, defended him during impeachment." The person on the other line says, "And Buddy helped Trump at the border with deportations." The transgender person picks up a trophy and says, "And preventing people like me from competing in women's sports. Buddy Carter even believes there's only two genders." "Now Buddy wants to help Trump in the Senate and beat Jon Ossoff," the individual says. "It's just not fair." Meanwhile, the voice on the phone quips, "After all Ossoff has done for us!" The ad ends with the transgender person picking up a sign with pink lettering that says, "Ossoff for Senate," putting on a pair of wedge sandals, and stomping to their car. The short but punchy advertisement signals that Republicans still believe the debate surrounding transgender inclusion is a potent issue for turning out voters in favor of the GOP. It proved to be a key issue in the 2024 general election, with moderate Democrats spending weeks after the fact decrying their own party's intolerance to differing views. Ossoff is a first-term lawmaker who was the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in the Peach State in roughly two decades. Republicans now view Ossoff's seat as one of the most viable flip opportunities in the upcoming 2026 midterm cycle, when the GOP hopes to keep and expand upon its thin majority in the upper chamber. Carter was the first Republican to jump into the contest after Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was considered a heavy favorite to run against Ossoff, opted to forgo a Senate bid. Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King is also running in the race as a Republican. Ossoff joined with all other Democratic senators to filibuster the bill from Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt, both Alabama Republicans, in March, effectively killing the legislation after it advanced out of the House earlier this year. Their bill, called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, is designed to bar transgender athletes from participating in federally funded school athletics at all levels, from elementary school to college. It would amend Title IX to make it a violation for any school athletic program that receives federal funding to allow a biological male to participate in sports or activities that are meant for women or girls, and defines a person's sex by their reproductive biology and genetics at birth. The measure is similar to an executive order from President Donald Trump in February that argued that the participation of biological men in women's and girls' sports was "demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports." The Carter campaign's ad is also not the first time in the early days of the looming midterm cycle that the vulnerable senator has been targeted for his vote against the measure. One Nation, a nonprofit advocacy group closely aligned with Senate Republican leadership, ran an ad last month that accused Ossoff of "running point for the radical left" with his vote to block the men in women's sports bill. Fox News Digital reached out to Ossoff's campaign for comment on Carter's ad but did not hear back by press time.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Sen. Ossoff demands federal probe into racist texts targeting Georgia youth
The Brief Sen. Jon Ossoff is urging a federal investigation into racist and threatening texts sent to Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ youth in Georgia. Ossoff's letter to the U.S. Attorney General and FBI Director highlights the need to identify those behind the coordinated hate campaign. Victims, including minors, received texts with racist threats, causing fear and trauma among families. ATLANTA - U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is renewing calls for a federal investigation into a wave of racist and threatening text messages sent to Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ youth across Georgia, including minors as young as 14. SEE ALSO: Georgia residents reporting disturbing racist messages before, after election What they're saying In a letter sent this week to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Neal Patel, Ossoff urged both agencies to redouble their efforts to identify those responsible for what he described as a coordinated and sophisticated campaign of hate. "I write to follow up on my previous December 2024 request that the Department of Justice fully investigate the racist mass text campaign that targeted Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ Georgians, including children, in November 2024," Ossoff wrote. "According to subsequent reporting, the texts may have been the result of a coordinated, sophisticated attack. In light of that reporting, I ask that you redouble your investigatory efforts to identify the perpetrators of this hateful campaign and hold them accountable." The backstory FOX 5 Atlanta previously reported that one text told a Black recipient they had been "selected to pick cotton" and warned of consequences for noncompliance. Families of victims described being frightened and traumatized. What we know Ossoff initially urged the Biden Administration to investigate the messages shortly after they surfaced in late 2024. He is urging the same of the Trump administration. The Source The details and quotes were provided to FOX 5 Atlanta by Sen. Jon Ossoff's office.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ossoff to speak about corporate landlords buying up Georgia homes
The Brief Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is hosting an oversight session in Atlanta to discuss the alleged mistreatment of Georgia renters by out-of-state corporate landlords. The senator says that nearly 30% of the state's single-family rental homes are owned by one of four major companies. He's asking Georgians who have been affected by this rise in corporate property purchases to tell his office their stories through his website. ATLANTA - Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says that he's planning to expose the "mistreatment of Georgians" by out-of-state corporate landlords on Monday. The senator is hosting an oversight session in Atlanta with Georgia renters to discuss the issue. By the numbers The session comes weeks after Ossoff announced that he would be launching an inquiry into multiple out-of-state corporations that have bought up thousands of single-family homes and driven up prices. According to a report by the Government Accountability Office in 2024, large companies owned one in every four single-family renter homes in the metro Atlanta area. Officials say that makes the area the most impacted region in the country. The latest data released last week by a Georgia State University researcher showed that the number had increased to 30%. In Henry County, Ossoff says that nearly 70% of all single-family rental properties. Paulding County's number is reportedly even higher at 78%. Ossoff and Georgia State University professor Dr. Taylor Shelton said that it could mean higher home prices for Georgia families. What they're saying "There is a housing crisis, not just in metro Atlanta, but across the state of Georgia, and more and more Georgians are unable to afford a home," Ossoff said in a statement. "More and more Georgians who are renting instead of buying are facing mistreatment or abusive practices by corporate landlords." "I think we can all agree that we face a housing crisis that a young family with a new child who wants to purchase their first home now can't afford it, and that those who are renting face higher and higher rents and more and more mistreatment from these large, out-of-state corporate landlords. I launched this investigation in order to bring transparency and accountability and to lower home prices for my constituents in Georgia," he said. Dig deeper Ossoff has requested information from four companies - Invitation Homes, Main Street Renewal, Tricon Residential, and Progress Residential - on their home purchases across Georgia. He has asked the companies to provide the information no later than July 1. The senator is asking any Georgians who believe they've been mistreated by large corporate landlords or who have been unable to afford homes to share their stories on his website. The Source Information for this story came from multiple releases by the Office of Sen. Jon Ossoff, a study by the Government Accountability Office, and previous FOX 5 reporting.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sen. Jon Ossoff on Trump's family business dealings: "It is really mind blowing"
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) talks to Jen Psaki about President Donald Trump and his family's business dealings including Jared Kushner taking billions of dollars from the Saudis and the selling of private dinners and White House tours to people who invest in his family businesses. 'The depth of corruption and self-dealing and self-enrichment by the Trump family, during this term, is something that we have never, ever seen in the United States.'
