U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff visited the UGA campus Tuesday where he unveiled new agricultural initiatives in Georgia, including support for several Athens based facilities.
Those initiatives include partnerships between UGA and Fort Valley State University, UGA’s Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and the U.S. National Poultry Research Center located in Athens-Clarke County. Ossoff says he hopes to bring more than $25 million to support the projects through federal funding.
Ossoff also touched on the recent supreme court ruling striking down Roe v Wade and Georgia's heartbeat law now being considered by a federal appeal court, calling the ban “draconian.”
Atlanta sees largest corporate convention since COVID-19
Starting today, Atlanta is hosting its largest corporate convention since the start of the pandemic.
Over 35,000 attendees from across North America are expected for the event hosted by Primerica, a Duluth based financial services company. While there have been larger trade shows, major sportingevents, and student confabs in Atlanta over the last couple of years, Primerica is the largest corporate convention in Atlanta booked through the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau since the pandemic began.
Convention business in Atlanta has been on the rise since plummeting earlier in the pandemic. While a recovery got underway in early summer 2021, the number of people attending conventions dropped later that summer with the delta variant, and suffered another setback with the omicron surge that stretched into early this year.
Convention traffic in Atlanta dropped to only six events in 2020, rose to 12 in 2021 and will hit 20 this year, nearing the average number of conventions hosted before the pandemic.
