‘Renewed clear-eyed focus’: Eggs and Issues 2025 sticks to the issues in state

The 2025 Chairman of the Georgia Chamber, Ed Elkins, greets the 2024 Chairman of the Georgia Chamber, Pedro Cherry (right) during the Eggs and Issues Legislative Breakfast on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, inside the Georgia World Congress Center. Photo by Itoro N. Umontuen/The Atlanta VoiceThe annual Eggs and Issues breakfast took place inside the Georgia World Congress Center on Tuesday morning. Along with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Lt. Governor Burt Jones, Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, Atlanta Gas Light & Chattanooga Gas President and CEO and Georgia Chamber 2024 Chair Pedro Cherry, and many others took the time to address a standing-room-only crowd. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens was also in attendance and delivered the welcome. Dickens also held a press conference later that morning to address the upcoming security plans for the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Monday, Jan. 20. Kemp thanked Dickens and others for their continued service to the state and continued an often-mentioned point of Georgia once again being thanked the number one place to do business in the United States by Area Development Magazine for the 11th year in a row.Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt...