Georgia Trend Daily – May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025 WABE
Morehouse names 1992 alum Dr. F. DuBois Bowman as the school’s new president
Kendall Murry reports that after a nationwide search, Morehouse College announced Tuesday that a fellow “Morehouse Man” will serve as its 13th president. Public health leader and biostatistician Dr. F. DuBois Bowman will take over the position on July 15, following the end of President David A. Thomas’ tenure in June.
May 14, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Off to the Races
Brian Robinson writes, the 2026 political cycle that will usher in a new era in Georgia politics is well underway. Though he’s not on the ballot in Georgia next year, President Trump will loom large – perhaps more so than any individual candidate – in determining the outcome. We’ll return to the Trump factor in a moment but first let’s set the scene.
May 14, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Failed health inspections sent the Atlanta airport scrambling to fix problems
Emma Hurt reports, in January of last year, the director of the Atlanta airport‘s concessions program, Scott Knight, wrote a warning email to the businesses that operate the airport‘s 165 food and beverage establishments. The airport‘s internal inspectors had just temporarily closed three locations for food safety violations on the same day, he said, representing a “new poor performance record for our community,” Knight wrote.
May 14, 2025 The Brunswick News
GA marching band takes first place in indoor percussion competition
Taylor Cooper reports, performers in the Glynn Academy Marching Band took first place in the novice category in the Georgia Indoor Percussion Association’s national championships. “It can be a little difficult because you have a very short time window where you have to set everything up, play your entire show no matter how long it is, break down, and they can penalize you hard if you go over that set time limit,” said Parker Floyd, who played the vibraphone in the indoor percussion team.
May 14, 2025 Saporta Report
Atlanta celebrates safe street advocates at 18th annual Blinkie Awards
Delaney Tarr reports, Atlanta’s best and brightest street safety advocates flocked to Wild Heaven’s West End Brewery on May 9 for Propel ATL’s 18th annual Blinkie Awards. The fundraiser and awards ceremony hosted by the citywide pedestrian and cycling nonprofit honors the work of local advocates and project leaders.
May 14, 2025 The Current
Concerns arise after vote for $78M Chatham emergency center contract nixed
Jake Shore reports that the process to build the long-awaited Chatham emergency operations center continues to raise transparency and fiscal concerns after Chairman Chester Ellis quietly shelved a vote on a $78 million contract last week. Ellis nixed the vote for the Multi-Agency Public Safety Facility (MAPSF) with little fanfare the night before the Friday county commission meeting.
May 14, 2025 Valdosta Daily Times
Clyatt’s vision to aid the kids of injured workers became a 50-state movement
Staff reports, when Valdosta attorney Robert M. Clyatt first founded the nonprofit Kids’ Chance in Georgia in 1988, he had one goal in mind: to give the kids of critically or fatally injured workers a chance at a brighter future. Today, that dream has spread across the nation and become a 50-state network of nonprofits that to date have awarded more than $42 million in scholarships.
May 14, 2025 Fox 5 Atlanta
Cobb County to disburse $7.9M in opioid settlement funds to combat crisis
Denise Dillon reports that millions of dollars to combat the opioid crisis are soon to be disbursed to help address the opioid epidemic. Organizations and nonprofits in Cobb County believe that they can put the money to good use and can apply for some of the $7.9 million the county received in settlements reached with manufacturers and distributors of opioids.
May 14, 2025 Macon Melody
Bibb County set to make historic investment in roads with SPLOST
Laura Corley reports that Macon-Bibb County is planning to spend $50 million to improve and repave county roads in the coming years, the mayor announced Monday. “Unfortunately, in the past, we haven’t been able to put as much money in those infrastructures as we’d like to do,” Mayor Lester Miller said during a news conference at City Hall.
May 14, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Federal court might revive Georgia lawsuit claiming mass challenges violate Voting Rights Act
Stanley Dunlap reports that a three-judge federal court panel spent an hour in a downtown Atlanta courthouse Tuesday hearing arguments from attorneys about whether a conservative Texas organization’s mass voting challenges during a 2021 runoff violated the federal Voting Rights Act by intimidating minority voters.
May 14, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Appellate court takes up mass voter eligibility challenges
Dave Williams reports, oral arguments in a federal courtroom Tuesday over whether a Texas-based conservative group’s mass voter challenges in Georgia almost five years ago amounted to an attempt to intimidate minority voters boiled down to intent. A lawyer representing Fair Fight, a voting rights group founded by two-time Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, told a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the eligibility challenges of almost 365,000 voters – the largest in the state’s history – lodged by True the Vote was aimed at discouraging voters ahead of two runoff elections in January 2021 that vaulted Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock into the U.S. Senate.
May 14, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia governor’s race heats up as candidates make moves
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report Georgia’s political attention is fixed on the race for U.S. Senate and the prospect of a rare alliance between Gov. Brian Kemp and President Donald Trump. But don’t forget about the 2026 race for governor. The contest is gaining steam as some contenders are making moves.
