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Simon Says: Looking at the power of Plant Vogtle

Georgia Power announced on Monday, March 7 that it had begun splitting atoms in reactor 3 at Plant Vogtle. The previous week, my students and I had toured the facility with Mike McCracken, Communications Coordinator for Southern Nuclear Company, to learn more about the economics of nuclear power and what it means to our area. Southern Nuclear announced it would file an Early Site Permit to build Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle in 2005. At the time, the estimated cost was $14 billion. Currently, it is more than

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Simon Medcalfe March 27, 2023 No Comments
ABD Extra

GreenJackets getting the green light on updates

The Augusta GreenJackets stadium has been making improvements just in time for opening day on April 11. Located at SRP park in North Augusta, S.C., the stadium is a key feature of activity in the CSRA. New suite level floors have been added from B&B Decorative Concrete. “We love working with local companies to improve SRP Park,” said Tom Denlinger, vice president of Augusta GreenJackets. The renovations to the stadium come as many minor league baseball teams are going through similar upgrades. Improvements made to the park are there to

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Rakiyah Lenon March 27, 2023 No Comments
ABD Extra

A step closer to funding the new James Brown Arena

A bill to cover the cost to build a new James Brown Arena is making its way through the Georgia Legislature. Meetings in Atlanta earlier this year gave Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority members the opportunity to ask state lawmakers to support a new, half a penny sales tax for the project. “We went before a sales tax committee, just to tell them about our project, what we’re doing and why we wanted to have (half) penny sales tax added to build a new arena,” said Brad Usry, chairman of the

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 27, 2023 No Comments
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Mondays with Rick: How to recruit employees with a plan for retention

Dr. Rick Franza, Professor of Management at the Hull College of Business, discusses a different, timely business topic each Monday in this column. This week, he gives tips on recruiting employees who will stay. The interview has been edited for clarity and impact. ABD: We’re in a time period when just about everyone is looking for employees, especially those who they can retain. What’s the starting point when trying to recruit someone? Rick: Part of it depends where you’re recruiting from, locally or from somewhere else. If you’re recruiting from

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Dr. Rick Franza March 27, 2023 No Comments
ABD Extra

More large-scale development headed to North Augusta

A more than 1,700-acre development is reportedly coming to the North Augusta area. Information surfaced with a post on the Twitter feed of Eureka Earth, an Augusta-based company specializing in “shared robotics and autonomous systems.” Its social media and website feature aerial photos, primarily of the Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters tournament. The tweet included a name for the development, Cypress Shoals, and a link to the developer’s website. The website for Cypress Shoals said it will be a multi-generational, mixed-use development that will include residential lots, condominiums

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 27, 2023 No Comments
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Economic Update: Charged and ready to “A.C.E.” business

Ready to “ace” it this week? Coach Dave Holdeman from The Alternative Board of the CSRA and Augusta Business Daily publisher Neil Gordon look at how a local hotel is preparing for Masters Week in the latest economic update. Holdeman also shares his A.C.E. acronym for business owners to help their employees.

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Neil Gordon with Dave Holdeman March 27, 2023 No Comments
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Georgia Business Minute: Georgia’s “Focus” on Jobs

The Peach State made the Forbes annual list of America’s best large employers. See which companies landed a spot on the list and catch up on the status on the state’s banks in this week’s Georgia Business Minute from Atlanta reporter Mike Petchenik.

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Mike Petchenik March 27, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Will Artificial Intelligence take your job?

In case you missed Richard Brashear’s column last week, here is the link. How GPT-4 can boost your business marketing. Read it and read it again. He has done several columns about AI capabilities and the impact on marketing your business, but this article sent me down a research rabbit hole. As Brashear has reported, AI has revolutionized the digital marketing industry. In simple terms GPT-4 is an artificial intelligence model that is used to generate text, most of which comes from absorbing the internet, all of it. “From a

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Mitzi Oxford March 26, 2023 No Comments
Cyber Security

Tech Alert: Is public Wi-Fi safe?

People often wonder, should you use public Wi-Fi? Commonly, folks will use VPN tools, but I want to make sure you know that these tools can often be a source of malware and breaches. Beware of using these options when looking to protect your computer from attacks using public Wi-Fi. Here is what I recommend watching out for: First, if you are entering passwords or interacting with your bank, be sure that you are only interacting on sites that begin with HTTPS. If the website does not have HTTPS in

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Patrick Reynolds March 26, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local company hosts book drive to benefit students

For many children, reading over the summer sounds like punishment, but one local business owner hopes to change that with help from the business community. Tim Cox, the owner of Leisure Time Pressure Wash & Restoration located on Columbia Road in Martinez, is hosting a book drive this month and next month with the goal of providing one book to every student at Warren Road Elementary School in Augusta, where his wife, Tiffany teaches. He said the school’s enrollment is about 600 students. “We figured we have to come up

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Josh Heath March 26, 2023 No Comments
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