Georgia Trend Daily – July 14, 2025
July 14, 2025 WJBF
Club Car delivers electric cars to Pope Leo XIV
Rakiyah Lenon reports, Club Car delivered two custom-built electric vehicles to Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City this week. According to the company with its headquarters in Augusta, the Pope will use the cars for international visits.
July 14, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Gimme shelter: Atlanta’s Housing Crunch
Kenna Simmons reports, Atlanta – and all of Georgia, really – is not alone in facing a housing crisis. Nationwide, estimates of the housing shortfall range from 1.5 million units in metropolitan areas to up to 5.5 million overall, depending on whom you ask (the National Association of Home Builders in the first instance and the National Association of Realtors in the second).
July 14, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Federal government slashes office leases across Georgia
Zachary Hansen reports that Georgia is among the hardest hit states so far in the federal government’s campaign to cut its office space. The General Services Administration, which oversees the government’s leased and owned properties, has canceled 11 leases so far this year in Georgia totaling nearly 260,000 square feet, according to a new data tracker by real estate services firm Avison Young.
July 14, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Cobb Tourism Industry Prepares for All-Star Week
Jack Lindner reports that Major League Baseball’s All-Star festivities began Friday at Truist Park, and the Cobb tourism industry is in full-swing with hosting duties. In addition to Truist Park hosting the big game, The Battery and the Cobb Galleria Centre are activated for the Capital One All-Star Village, a venue hosting a variety of All-Star activities such as interactive contests, video games, prizes and meet-and-greets.
July 14, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Japanese Hip-Hop Star Underwriting Study Abroad in Okinawa for Three Atlanta College Students
Trevor Williams reports, Okinowa is where Japanese hip-hop artist Awich first encountered American culture, which exposed her to hip-hop as a teenager. Now, the accomplished international rapper is helping both Japanese and American students gain similar cross-cultural exposure through educational exchanges, perhaps imparting some of her hard-won wisdom along the way.
July 14, 2025 WABE
Atlanta food banks expect greater demand in light of federal SNAP cuts
Meimei Xu reports that food banks in metro Atlanta are expecting increased need for food assistance after President Donald Trump signed into law a budget and spending bill that includes changes to the nation’s largest food assistance program. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, is currently 100% federally funded, though the states help administer the program.
July 14, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Project would service 1,150-acre megasite, potentially attracting industrial projects
Joe Hotchkiss reports, a $25 million sewer project in south Augusta would open the floodgates for what economic development officials called “billions in private investment and thousands of jobs” for the Augusta area. The 1,150 acres near the Burke County line, referred to as the McCombs Road Megasite, could be “primed for large-scale industrial projects,” according to a presentation prepared by the Augusta Economic Development Authority for the Augusta Commission.
July 14, 2025 The Brunswick News
DNR proposes to add new bird islands subject to closure
Staff reports that the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is seeking input from the public on a proposed change to the rules governing bird islands to add several new islands and allow recreational access to some of the man-made sanctuaries when they are inactive.
July 14, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Tiny turnout likely for Tuesday’s PSC primary runoff
Dave Williams reports, what if they held an election and no one came? That was nearly the case last month when only about 2.4% of Georgia’s roughly 8.4 million registered voters cast ballots in Republican and Democratic primaries for seats on the state Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates utilities.
July 14, 2025 State Affairs
$200M in school aid frozen, leaving Georgia students and teachers in limbo
Devyn Woodard reports that students may face a new reality when they return to the classroom next month, as over $200 million in federal education grants for Georgia is being withheld.Last month, the Trump administration announced it would withhold around $6 billion worth of education grants to states nationwide.
July 14, 2025 Georgia Recorder
‘The most draconian cuts imaginable’: Health care providers, advocates brace for Medicaid cuts
Maya Homan reports, as the dust settles in the wake of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” — the massive spending cut and tax break package signed into law early this month — it’s becoming clearer that Georgia’s health care landscape may look dramatically different in 2026. Health insurers, providers and advocates alike are bracing for the impact that the federal budget reconciliation bill will have on health care access throughout the state over the next decade.
July 14, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Critics: Trump budget bill a blow to health care, clean energy
Dave Williams reports that when Congress passed President Donald Trump’s controversial budget bill July 3, Republicans and Democrats went to their corners to portray it either as the largest tax cut in U.S. history or a devastating gutting of the nation’s safety net. But beyond the politics, Georgia health-care and clean-energy advocates warned that cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and food stamps, as well as the phasing out of clean-energy tax credits will hurt low- and middle-income Georgians in exchange for easing the tax burden on the wealthy who don’t need such government largesse.
July 14, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jon Ossoff goads Marjorie Taylor Greene by urging her to run for Senate
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff staged the second rally of his 2026 reelection campaign over the weekend in Savannah. With the field of Republican challengers still a work in progress, Ossoff avoided mentioning any potential opponents by name.
