Georgia Trend Daily – March 19, 2025
March 19, 2025 Georgia.gov
Gov. Kemp: TriNet to Create 750 Jobs in Metro Atlanta
Staff reports that Gov. Kemp on Tuesday announced that TriNet is planning to create 750 new jobs at a new corporate center in Dunwoody over the next five years, representing an estimated $15.4 million in investment in DeKalb County. “TriNet’s services for small businesses will further that network while creating meaningful jobs and investment for the Dunwoody and DeKalb County community,” he said.
March 19, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
The Rise of U.S. Rep. Brian Jack
Brian Robinson writes, when I sat with U.S. Rep. Brian Jack, it was late December in an office high-rise several weeks before he’d take the oath as the new congressman for Georgia’s 3rd District. He’d just returned to Georgia from Mar-A-Lago, where he’d engaged in political discussions with President Donald Trump (then president-elect) about upcoming races around the country in 2025 and 2026.
March 19, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Its Indiana plant is in bankruptcy. But recycler says $1B Georgia plant on track
J. Scott Trubey and Zachary Hansen reports that a California plastics recycling company said Tuesday that it still plans to build a sprawling operation in rural Georgia despite a recent bankruptcy filing by subsidiaries that operate a similar plant in Indiana. Brightmark LLC said its affiliates that operate a recycling operation in Indiana filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the intent to sell their assets.
March 19, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Survey reveals Georgia’s 34 most trustworthy companies. Georgia Power, Coca-Cola make cut
Vanessa Countryman reports that consumer trust can make or break a business’ success. And Georgia is home to 34 of the most trustworthy companies in the United States, according to a new survey.
March 19, 2025 The Current
Sales taxes pass in Chatham, Camden, Liberty but not Bryan
Craig Nelson reports, in a special election notable for remarkably low turnout, voters in Camden, Chatham and Liberty approved the continuation of a one-cent sales tax on retail purchases for another five years. Only fast-growing Bryan County, where capital outlay needs are especially pressing, proved an exception.
March 19, 2025 State Affairs
Barbara Rivera-Holmes makes history as Georgia’s 1st Latina statewide executive
Beau Evans reports that Barbara Rivera-Holmes, a former journalist and Albany economic development official, was appointed state labor commissioner on Tuesday, becoming the first Latina to hold any statewide executive office in Georgia. Rivera-Holmes, who was born in Puerto Rico, is set to fill the remainder of the labor commissioner’s four-year term after its previous chief, Bruce Thompson, died of pancreatic cancer in late 2024.
March 19, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
‘This Old House’ says this Georgia city is the best place in GA to raise a family
Vanessa Countryman reports that three Georgia cities have ranked among the best places in the U.S. to raise a family for 2025. The best place to raise a family in Georgia, ranked No. 56, is Augusta.
March 19, 2025 The Brunswick News
County to consider data center ordinance
Gordon Jackson reports that a proposed ordinance aimed at data centers will be considered at today’s special called meeting of the Glynn County Commission. Data centers are not specifically defined in the Glynn County zoning ordinance, which commissioners plan to rectify through a proposed permitted use in limited, basic and general industrial.
March 19, 2025 GPB
People from Austin Scott’s district wanted a town hall with the congressman. They had it without him
Grant Blankenship reports, close to 200 people brought their concerns about President Trump’s policies to the Warner Robins office of Republican U.S. Rep. Austin Scott on Monday. Congress is in recess, but Scott was not at the office.
March 19, 2025 Georgia Recorder
GOP bill to outlaw puberty blocking meds surfaces roiling undercurrent in Georgia House
Ross Williams reports that the fate of a Senate bill banning puberty-blocking medications for minors with gender dysphoria is unclear after a rocky House Committee hearing Tuesday. Savannah Republican Sen. Ben Watson’s Senate Bill 30 was not scheduled to get a vote in the House Public and Community Health Committee but the meeting ended early after the bill faced skepticism from Democrats on the committee as well as Committee Chair Sharon Cooper, a Marietta Republican.
March 19, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Tort reform passes another hurdle in General Assembly
Dave Williams reports that comprehensive tort reform legislation Gov. Brian Kemp has made his top priority for the 2025 General Assembly session cleared a committee in the Georgia House of Representatives Tuesday. The Republican-backed bill, which the state Senate passed last month largely along party lines, seeks to curb “runaway” jury awards that are threatening businesses’ bottom lines by driving up insurance premiums, Senate President Pro Tempore John Kennedy, the measure’s chief sponsor, told members of a House subcommittee formed specifically to consider Senate Bill 68.
March 19, 2025 WSB-TV
New bill passes requiring Georgia workers with disabilities to be paid minimum wage
Miles Montgomery and staff report that a new bill has passed in Georgia on Tuesday which will require people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities to be paid minimum wage after receiving final approval by the Georgia house. The new law applies to eight organizations that have a federal waiver to pay workers less money, according to Georgia officials.
March 19, 2025 Savannah Morning News
New legislation offers Georgia farmers pathway to cheaper property taxes. Here’s how
Miguel Legoas report that farmers from Georgia have been seriously hurting since Hurricane Helene, but they may finally be getting a break. On Tuesday, the Georgia Senate passed House Bill 90 and House Resolution 32 which could provide tax cuts to farmers, if approved by voters.
March 19, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Georgia’s ‘anti-doxxing’ legislation upsets the balance between free speech and privacy
Harsh Patel reports, no one – whether they are a private figure or a public official – wants to be harassed online with their private information paraded about for others to use to target them or their family members. Unfortunately, the legislative fix that the Georgia General Assembly is working on – Senate Bill 27 – isn’t threading the needle quite right.
March 19, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Legislation to ban cellphones in Georgia schools takes one more step toward becoming law
Ty Tagami reports, a bill that would ban cellphones in all of Georgia’s public elementary and middle schools has cleared another hurdle toward becoming law. House Bill 340 passed a Senate committee on Tuesday and could get a vote by the full Senate soon.
March 19, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s not just Republicans. Democrats also get an earful at town halls
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, one voter urged U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams to try to impeach President Donald Trump a third time. Another questioned whether there will ever be another election. A third wanted Democrats to more aggressively combat GOP policies.
