Georgia Trend Daily – April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025 WABE
For Georgia shrimpers, the foreign competition and climate costs of doing business are high
Emily Jones reports that shrimp are the quintessential Georgia seafood: the central ingredient of a Lowcountry boil, the subject of an annual festival on Jekyll Island, ubiquitous on coastal menus. But often, it turns out, the shrimp on those menus isn’t from Georgia. Genetic testing on the shrimp at 44 Savannah restaurants recently revealed that 34 of them were actually serving foreign shrimp.
April 28, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Syensqo: Engineering the Future of Sustainable Aviation, Right Here in Georgia
Julia Roberts reports Syensqo doesn’t just imagine a cleaner, more efficient world; they build the materials that make it possible. As a global leader in high-performance materials and specialty chemicals, Syensqo is tackling some of the toughest challenges in aerospace, clean energy, and next-generation transportation.
April 28, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta entrepreneur steers her clients through Trump’s trade war
J. Scott Trubey reports that in an uncertain age of U.S. tariffs and foreign reprisals, Jennifer Barbosa said she’s focused on her customers. Barbosa’s Atlanta-based company, International Supply Partners, helps businesses, medical facilities, colleges and government agencies obtain mission-critical personal protective equipment through a network of domestic and foreign suppliers.
April 28, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Amazon’s path into a community such as Augusta doesn’t always require big incentives
Joe Hotchkiss reports that word of a new Amazon facility proposed for south Augusta surprised many people, including the president of the Augusta Economic Development Authority. But the unexpected news seemed to offer a glimpse into the secrecy and efficiency with which the global retail giant approaches property development.
April 28, 2025 Rough Draft Atlanta
Outward Bound receives $15M grant from Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Staff reports that Outward Bound USA has been awarded a $15 million grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. This record-setting gift will propel Outward Bound USA’s Advancing Access to the Outdoors initiative—a comprehensive effort designed to expand and innovate its community-based outdoor education programs and ensure fair access for students across the country.
April 28, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Mercer University’s longtime president steps down. What’s next for him?
Jesse Fraga reports that Mercer University President William D. Underwood announced he will step down from his role in 2026, he said at a Board of Trustees meeting Friday. Underwood will return to teaching full time in the Mercer’s School of Law, where he began his academic career 35 years ago, according to a news release from the university Friday afternoon.
April 28, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Avondale Estates Garden Club
Candice Dyer reports, “We’re not just a bunch of little old white ladies,” says Patricia Calcagno, president of the Avondale Estates Garden Club, which prides itself on its diverse roll of women, men and LGBTQ+ couples varying in age from their 20s to their 80s.
April 28, 2025 The Current
Federal cuts to children’s advocacy group hits coastal counties hard
Jabari Gibbs reports that the federal government has cut some of its aid to National Court Appointed Special Advocates, which provides special advocacy for fostered youth in the juvenile court system. CASA Savannah, which serves 300 children, has felt the impact of the decision, with immediate losses of $110,000.
April 28, 2025 The Brunswick News
CASA Glynn seeks help appealing national funding termination
Michael Hall reports, a move by the U.S. Department of Justice to terminate federal grants that support Court Appointed Special Advocates and Guardian ad Litem volunteer programs nationally could make a quarter of the funding for the local program disappear. The move is being appealed by the national CASA chapter, and CASA Glynn is asking for local folks to contact their legislators to request the move be reversed.
April 28, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
A New Law Requires Local Government to Set An Estimated Tax Rollback Rate
Rachel Hartdegen reports that a Rome City Commission will be the last local taxing authority to vote on an estimated millage rate, in accordance with a new law passed this legislative session. The law, which was House Bill 92, was signed by Governor Brian Kemp April 1 and acts as a clean-up law for the floating homestead exemption law, House Bill 581, that was signed into law in 2024.
April 28, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Ossoff tells fired CDC workers that Democrats must regain power in Congress to stymie Trump
Ross Williams reports that Sen. Jon Ossoff faced pointed questions from fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers and others at a Marietta town hall meeting Friday. The Atlanta-based CDC has seen mass layoffs as part of the Trump administration’s widespread government cuts.
April 28, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hard line Georgia GOP activists target Jon Burns, Brad Raffensperger
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, the Georgia Republican grassroots base has gone to war with many of its party leaders over the last decade, a list that spans from former Gov. Nathan Deal to current Gov. Brian Kemp. The state GOP passed a resolution in 2021 to censure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after defying President Donald Trump’s demand to “find” enough votes to reverse his defeat, while activists in several counties rebuked Kemp.
