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☆ I drove a $95,000 electric BMW. It has epic performance but trails Tesla and Lucid in range.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-30 | by ( Benjamin Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The rear of a 2024 BMW I5 M60 xDrive EV sports sedan. Benjamin Zhang/Business InsiderMy BMW I5 M60 xDrive came with a 257-horsepower electronic motor mounted at the front axle and a larger 335-horsepower electric motor at the back. The BMW 5-Series is known for its poise in the corners and power down the straight. According to BMW, the I5 M60 xDrive can sprint from 0 to 60 in just 3.7 seconds, but Motor Trend was able to do it in 3.4 seconds. With perfect 50/50 front-rear weight distribution, the I5 felt balanced and precise around the corners.

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☆ With misinformation swirling in Hurricane Helene’s wake, officials urge residents to ‘stop this conspiracy theory junk’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Presenting no evidence, Trump claimed earlier this week that the Biden administration, along with North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Those rumors prompted many state and local officials – including other Republicans – to push back. North Carolina Lt. Gov. The few that aren’t are owned by states other than North Carolina.” That statement is directly contradicted by an earlier tweet from the North Carolina National Guard, which reported it had conducted 57 air missions and rescued more than 400 people. “I think what makes it particularly frustrating is clearly, in these times, social media could be an invaluable source of reliable information.”

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☆ Voters in Dalton, Georgia, stick with Trump despite Biden’s clean energy law that revived growth there
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Phil Mattingly | Andrew Seger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Dalton, Georgia CNN —The face of a new era in American manufacturing is here, just off Interstate 75, tucked into this northwest corner of Georgia. That’s where you’ll find the Qcells plant that pumps out 32,000 solar panels a day and has a total panel production capacity of 5.1 gigawatts. They’re contributing back into the local community, paying taxes,” Nash said. The Qcells solar panel plant in Dalton, Georgia CNNTrump strikes a chordLocated in the congressional district represented by GOP firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dalton is Trump country. “You want to ask me that after November?” Nash, the Qcells plant manager, responded when asked about the future for the industry.

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As rain poured down on Atlanta Wednesday, Major League Baseball announced two pivotal games were postponed due to the wet conditions. The postponements comes as Hurricane Helene nears, along with a cold front leading to a slow-moving line of showers and storms on Wednesday. The combination will make for “an unprecedented” weather event in North Georgia, according to the National Weather Service. The series between the two division rivals was seen as one of the most crucial of the 2024 MLB season to determine the final spots in the playoffs. The Braves are a half-game behind the Arizona Diamondbacks for the third and final wild card.

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☆ Helene checklist: How to prepare for the hurricane
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday night along the Florida Gulf Coast near Tallahassee and then veer north, maintaining hurricane- and tropical storm-force winds and torrential rainfall into North Georgia and up to Tennessee. Up to 18 inches of rain is expected into the Carolinas, the National Weather Service said Thursday. About 40 million Americans are living under direct hurricane or tropical storm warnings across five states, according to CNN Supervising Meteorologist Brandon Miller. But by 2 or 3 a.m., those winds are going to be 50 to 60 miles per hour, potentially, and so you need to prepare for that before you go to sleep,” Miller said. “That’s something people can do: Pick a room in their house that is the most protected from falling debris, and sleep there tonight,” Miller said.

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☆ Inclement weather postpones New York Mets-Atlanta Braves games
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Jacob Lev | Brandon Miller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —As rain poured down on Atlanta Wednesday, Major League Baseball announced two pivotal games were postponed due to the wet conditions. Wednesday’s and Thursday’s New York Mets-Atlanta Braves games, set to take place at the Braves home stadium Truist Park, have been postponed due to “the forecast and the inclement weather.”The MLB season was supposed to conclude on Sunday but will now extend into next week. The called-off games will be made up on Monday as part of a traditional doubleheader at Truist Park. The combination will make for “an unprecedented” weather event in North Georgia, according to the National Weather Service. The Braves are a half-game behind the Arizona Diamondbacks for the third and final wild card.

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☆ Boomers fed up with Florida are moving to southern Appalachia, fueling a population spike in longtime rural communities
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Boomers who once flocked to Florida are increasingly ditching the state for southern Appalachia. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementFor decades, Florida has remained a top destination for retirees looking to settle down roots as they enjoy their golden years. Many boomers moving into southern Appalachia have also bypassed Florida altogether. But some new residents fear Dawson County will simply become a northern outpost of the vast Atlanta metropolitan region, known for its suburban sprawl.

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☆ Dating in a small town can require creativity. Everything closes early — except the grocery store, so I took him there.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Kalen Williamson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In 2017 I decided it was time to date again and so I downloaded a dating app. I live in a small town where everything closes by 9 p.m. It was the most attention I had gotten on a dating app in years. Like most app dating, I rarely met anyone in real life. I live in a small town where everything closes earlyI live in a tiny, boring town in the North Georgia mountains.

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☆ Rudy Giuliani, Hard Up for Cash, Lands a New Georgia Lawyer
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Mariah Timms | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

L. Allyn Stockton Jr., at lectern, spoke to Rabun County, Ga., commissioners in 2022. Photo: Megan Horn/The Clayton TribuneATLANTA—After nearly two months without legal representation amid dwindling finances, Rudy Giuliani has a lawyer in Georgia. L. Allyn Stockton Jr. , who made his first court appearance for Giuliani last week, isn’t well-known outside of North Georgia. Perhaps his biggest claim to fame was a 2015 appearance before a congressional panel looking into a bear-hunting sting carried out by authorities along the Georgia-North Carolina border.

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☆ Opinion | Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +58 min

It’s like there’s no point in asking who started this because it’s a really, really old antagonism. I think that’s probably what’s most critical right now is that all of our entertainment, our news media, it’s all made in cities. And he’s really pretty horrible, and he doesn’t feed them enough, and that’s really sad. You’re going to have a flat tire, and the guy that pulls up to help you is going to tell your dad within minutes. It’s not like most books you’re going to see.

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As the storm took shape over the Great Lakes on Thursday, a weather phenomenon known as a bomb cyclone was likely to develop from a "rapidly deepening low-pressure" system, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. The cyclone could spawn snowfalls of a half inch (1.25 cm) per hour and howling winds from the Upper Midwest to the interior Northeast, producing near-zero visibility, the weather service said. "It's dangerous and threatening," President Joe Biden said at the White House, urging Americans with travel plans to not delay and to set off on Thursday. Hundreds of Texans died in February 2021 after the state's power grid failed amid wintry storms, leaving millions without electricity. Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the NWS Weather Prediction Center in Maryland, said freezing or below-freezing cold would bisect central Florida, with temperatures about 25 degrees below normal.

☆ Massive winter storm threatens holiday travel for millions of Americans
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Tyler Clifford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

In its wake, the cyclone could spawn snowfalls of a half inch an hour and winds of more than 50 mph (80 kph) in the Upper Midwest and interior Northeast, the weather service said. "This will lead to dangerous, to at times impossible, land and air travel leading up to the holiday weekend," the agency said on its website. Temperatures in parts of the Southern Plains and Southeast could stay below freezing -- 30-plus degrees less than normal -- for multiple days, the weather service predicted. The weather service also warned of freezing rain in parts of Oregon and Washington in the Northwest, where the storm originated, late Thursday. That would be the biggest daily drop in output since the freeze of February 2021 when a winter storm cut gas supplies from Texas and forced the Texas electric grid operator to impose rolling power outages.

☆ Live Updates: Georgia Voters Head to Polls for Final Say on Warnock vs. Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

Mr. Warnock consolidated Democratic voters, while Mr. Walker struggled to rally his party behind him. Mr. Walker was wrapping up a campaign that appears to have failed to consolidate the disparate wings of his party. Image Mr. Warnock spoke on Monday in Atlanta at the SWAG Shop barbershop with Killer Mike, the rapper. Credit... Nicole Craine for The New York TimesMr. Kemp kept some distance from Mr. Walker during the general election. Mr. Mathews said he planned to cast his ballot Tuesday for Mr. Walker.

☆ Georgia woman’s death that authorities said appeared ‘personal and targeted’ was a suicide, autopsy reveals
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A Georgia woman whose mysterious death was initially described by authorities as a "personal and targeted" killing was found to have died by suicide, officials said Friday. A spokeswoman for the state law enforcement agency said it provided the autopsy results to the sheriff’s office Thursday. The sheriff’s office also said it found no evidence linking her death to suicide. “At this time, the investigation is leading us to the proposition that Mrs. Collier’s death was personal and targeted,” the sheriff’s office said on Sept. 30. "This was the consensus of all of the agencies involved in the initial and ongoing investigation into Mrs. Collier’s death," he said.

☆ Cobb County, a longtime GOP stronghold, will be critical for Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's December runoff
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cobb County, a one-time GOP stronghold, is now critical for Democrats running statewide in Georgia. Warnock's strong suburban support will be key as he again faces Walker in a Dec. 6 runoff election. With over 95% of county precincts reporting in the Senate race, Warnock was leading Walker by nearly 17 points (57%-40.5%) in Cobb County. The current raw vote total is 175,387 votes for Warnock to 125,324 votes for Walker, an advantage of over 50,000 votes in this jurisdiction for the incumbent. Which begs the question: why has Cobb County become such a bellwether for statewide Democrats?

☆ Mom whose body was found in Georgia woods seemed "not afraid" in security video,
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Among the items found with Collier’s body were a red tote bag and a partly burned blue tarp. Investigators obtained the security video after they got a tip that Collier's daughter was seen at the shop that Saturday, the sheriff's office said. A review of the video showed that Collier herself was there — not her daughter, the sheriff's office said. The state crime lab was still conducting an autopsy, the sheriff's office said last week. Collier's body was discovered after a late model van that she'd been driving was found unlocked and unoccupied at a road pullout, authorities said.

☆ Raphael Warnock has a 5-point lead over Herschel Walker in high-stakes Georgia Senate contest, while Brian Kemp is ahead 6 points against Stacey Abrams in the governor's race: poll
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Warnock has a 47%-42% lead over Walker in the Georgia Senate race, per a new Marist Poll. In the poll, Warnock was backed by 94% of Democrats, while Walker earned 83% support among the GOP. Warnock performed strongly in the Atlanta metropolitan area; in the Atlanta suburbs, he edged out Walker by three-percentage points (47%-44%). (A recent CBS News/YouGov poll showed Warnock with a narrower 51%-49% edge over Walker.) Brian Kemp holds a six-point lead (50%-44%) over Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams among registered voters in a rematch of their 2018 contest.

☆ No evidence slain mom who texted ‘They won’t let me go’ was kidnapped, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Investigators have also found no evidence linking the death of Deborrah Collier, 59, to suicide, the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Neither the sheriff’s office nor Collier’s daughter immediately responded to requests for comment. Deputies found the van a short time later on the side of a state road in Clarkesville, the report says. The sheriff's office said an autopsy was being conducted by a state crime lab. The news release said that the investigation continues and that authorities executed search warrants at locations directly tied to Collier.

☆ How a rusted '60s Beetle is restored and customized
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Melissa Estrada | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Cate Culp: So today, we're going to be looking at Paisley, it's a 1960 Euro beetle and this car was built for our charity beetle promotion. Cate: Once it comes back from blast, we make a sort of a full list of the amount of metal work that needs to be done so any replacement panels that we need to purchase to go into metal work. So there was a bit of a bit of a process trying to work out how to engineer that. I think I bring a lot of that into the design work of the cars that we build. But at the end of the day, they're still a beetle, and they still have that same energy.

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