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:…
July 11, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal KSU economist sees slowing growth but no looming recession Megan Jackson reports, though economic growth is slowing, a recession is not the most likely scenario, according to Roger Tutterow, an economist with Kennesaw State University. Tutterow provided an economic update on local, state and national trends during the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce’s monthly…
July 10, 2025 Georgia.gov Gov. Kemp: Ti Cold and Karis Cold Building $60 Million Facility in McIntosh County Staff reports that Gov. Kemp on Wednesday announced that Ti Cold and Karis Cold have officially broken ground on a new $60 million cold storage facility for PermaCold Logistics in Darien, McIntosh County. The industrial cold storage construction company’s latest project will…
PRESS RELEASE: Atlanta, GA – Monday, June 30, 2025 — Smorgasburg, launched in Brooklyn in 2011. Now America’s top weekly open-air food festival, the event will expand to the South with the highly anticipated launch of Smorgasburg Atlanta this fall. Located in South Downtown at 140 Forsyth Street SW, an easy 10-minute walk from Mercedes-Benz Stadium and sandwiched between Garnett and…
July 9, 2025 Capitol Beat News Georgia ends fiscal year with slight increase in tax revenues Dave Williams reports, the state closed out fiscal 2025 at the end of last month with a slight increase in net tax collections compared to fiscal 2024, Gov. Brian Kemp reported Tuesday. Net tax revenue for the 12 months ending June 30 was up…
July 8, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald The Hi-Lo Trail from Athens to Savannah remains a vision, but much still to be done Wayne Ford reports, recently, the Georgia Hi-Lo Trail organization gained the land it needs for a 4-mile section in Washington County in the Sandersville and Tennille area, but the actual trail is still on the drawing board. “Going after…
July 7, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com Pullback on Korean Battery Recycling Plant Could Portend More Trouble for Georgia’s Clean Energy Sector Trevor Williams reports that a South Korean electric battery recycler is the latest clean-energy firm pulling back on investment plans for Georgia amid flagging demand for electric vehicles and the impending elimination of federal EV subsidies. SungEel Recycling Park Georgia LLC had planned to spend $37…
July 3, 2025 Capitol Beat News Atlanta to get Shriners children’s medical research facility Ty Tagami reports that Shriners Children’s will establish a new pediatric medical research facility near Georgia Tech, bringing jobs and significant investment, the health-care nonprofit announced Wednesday. Gov. Brian Kemp touted the new development as “an incredible addition to Georgia’s growing nonprofit, R&D, and life sciences communities.”…
July 2, 2025 Capitol Beat News PSC approves Georgia Power rate freeze Dave Williams reports that state energy regulators Tuesday unanimously approved Georgia Power’s plan to freeze customer rates for the next three years. Under an agreement the Atlanta-based utility and the Georgia Public Service Commission’s Public Interest Advocacy Staff reached in May, Georgia Power will not seek to raise…
July 1, 2025 Macon Telegraph Train derails in Fort Valley area amid a flash flood. What we know Carly Lenhardt reports, a Norfolk Southern train traveling through the Fort Valley area was derailed Saturday during a flash flood, officials say. Twenty-three train cars derailed shortly after 3 a.m., but none contained loaded hazardous materials. July 1, 2025 Georgia Trend…
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