Jeff Raiford

1 week ago | southeastgeorgiatoday.com | Jeff Raiford

QUINNIPIAC POLL: AI AND THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA Artificial intelligence is here to stay – a fact many Americans celebrate and others dread. Part of the discomfort about AI may stem from lack of familiarity with it. New national poll results, released Wednesday, show that only 12 percent of Americans feel they know “a great deal” about artificial intelligence while 17 percent feel they know hardly at all.

1 week ago | southeastgeorgiatoday.com | Jeff Raiford

CHILDHOOD AUTISM RATES RISING The year “Rainman” hit the theaters, an estimated 1 in 10,000 American children were diagnosed with autism, the then-little-understood developmental disability that complicated the life of the movie’s main character, played by Dustin Hoffman. Nearly 40 years later, the CDC has released new figures showing that 1 in 31 kids in the U.S. have some level of autism. Health officials attribute the rise in numbers to better screening and diagnosis methods.

1 week ago | southeastgeorgiatoday.com | Jeff Raiford

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) voted today to consolidate EastGeorgia State College (EGSC) and Georgia Southern University. This action is the first step in a careful process that will take more than a year. Final board approval ofthe newly consolidated institution is expected to come after a vote by the Southern Association ofColleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). A consolidation timeline is dependentupon those approvals.

1 week ago | southeastgeorgiatoday.com | Jeff Raiford

AT THE WHITE HOUSE: “THE HIGHER THE TARIFF, THE FASTER THEY COME.”President Trump is signaling even more tariffs are now on the horizon, saying he plans to invoke national security to impose new taxes on imported pharmaceuticals and on computer chips essential to powering everything from cellphones to cars.

1 week ago | southeastgeorgiatoday.com | Jeff Raiford

AT THE WHITE HOUSE: “WE’LL BE VERY SPECIFIC ON MONDAY”President Donald Trump says he'll share more details on Monday on his plan for separate tariffs on semiconductor chips. Asked about the plan by reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said, “We’ll be very specific on Monday. We’re taking in a lot of money.