Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 29, 2025
Aug. 29, 2025 Valdosta Daily Times
Farm bill information meetings coming to Georgia
Staff reports that the National Cotton Council (NCC) in collaboration with the Georgia Cotton Commission (GCC), Southern Cotton Growers, and the Southeastern Cotton Ginners Association is conducting a series of information meetings across Georgia and the rest of the cotton belt to provide cotton producers, industry firms, and agri-businesses with crucial information regarding the 2025 Farm Bill provisions passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. These meetings are open to all interested parties and are designed to ensure the industry is well-informed about the new law’s impact.
Aug. 29, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Atlanta’s Persian Castle: Divan Restaurant and Bar
Sucheta Rawal reports, steps away from The High Museum of Art, Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony, is a historic building known as The Castle aka Fort Peace. The former residence of wealthy agricultural supplier Ferdinand McMillan (1844–1920) is an iconic Atlanta landmark that you may have driven past without knowing its legendry history.
Aug. 29, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Why is a paper giant leaving Savannah? Answers trigger questions, theories
Adam Van Brimmer reports that Coastal Georgia’s best-known exports may be pralines, St. Patrick’s Day memories and Gulfstream jets. But on paper, the Savannah region has long been about paper products. A nearly 90-year legacy as a papermaking hub will soon be diminished as International Paper shutters its Savannah-area operations.
Aug. 29, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
After 157 years, AJC plans to stop print by end of the year
Isabelle Manders reports that after 157 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to stop the presses and move to a fully digital publication. The AJC plans to go completely digital by the end of the year, printing its last newspaper on Dec. 31, President and Publisher Andrew Morse announced Thursday.
Aug. 29, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Can new farming methods reduce greenhouse gases? Georgia Tech professor looks answers
Erica Van Buren reports that a recently published study by the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that liming, normally used to neutralize the acid in soil, can remove carbon from the atmosphere. Chris Reinhard, associate professor of biogeochemistry at the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, said there’s been interest in the carbon cycle for a long time.
Aug. 29, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Dining at a Mill | Millhouse Kitchen + Bar
Sucheta Rawal reports, drive around the historic district of the second largest city in Georgia, and you will see plenty of brick buildings and former mills that are repurposed into condominiums, hotels and offices. Columbus was in fact one of the most industrial cities in the state, with access to a prominent river and a train track.
Aug. 29, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Marietta ethics complaint ban tabled ahead of November election
Megan Jackson reports, after first green-lighting a proposal to ban ethics complaints during election season, a Marietta City Council committee this week opted to table the idea. Chaired by Councilwoman Cheryl Richardson, the committee initially advanced the amendment in July, intending to discourage the filing of ethics complaints solely for political purposes.
Aug. 29, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Parents call for regulation of tech companies that target kids
Ty Tagami reports that a generation of children are reaping what the technology industry sowed when it merged smartphones with social media, and the results have spurred calls for regulation. That is what motivated state senators on Wednesday to hold the first of a series of hearings about the impact of social media and artificial intelligence on children and what to do about it.
Aug. 29, 2025 Georgia Recorder
A fractured elections board presents competing wish lists to Georgia House elections committee
Maya Homan reports, at the third meeting of a House study committee dedicated to examining Georgia’s election procedures, state legislators sought out testimony from the State Election Board, a panel which is tasked with overseeing cases involving potential violations of election laws and issuing nonpartisan guidance to help elections run more smoothly. The goal? To repair the fraying relationship between the board and the secretary of state’s office.
Aug. 29, 2025 State Affairs
Soaring insurance costs eyed for crackdown in House
Beau Evans reports that tort reform went after lawsuits. Now, lawmakers are going after insurance. A House panel launched a monthslong effort Thursday to craft legislation aimed at driving down insurance rates that have risen in Georgia in recent years, particularly for automobile coverage that has seen a more than 20% increase in premiums since 2022.
Aug. 29, 2025 The Brunswick News
Annexation request of land owned by Rep. Carter causes stir
Gordon Jackson reports that Kingsland officials have been asked to consider a request to annex a 471-acre tract owned by U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-1, in unincorporated Camden County. But the request isn’t being greeted with much enthusiasm by the Camden County Commission.
Aug. 29, 2025 Capitol Beat News
State election board members offer differing outlook on security
Ty Tagami reports, members of the Republican-controlled State Election Board offered differing views on election security Thursday when lawmakers held their third of six listening sessions around the state. Board members also disagreed about whether there is a problem.
Aug. 29, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Judge says Jones can use lieutenant governor’s fund to raise unlimited donations in governor’s race
Jill Nolin reports that a federal judge has stymied a Republican candidate’s attempts to stop his GOP rival from using a special committee to gain a fundraising advantage in next year’s race for governor. But the judge’s ruling may not be the last word on the dispute.
Aug. 29, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chris Carr’s legal fight against donor limits could upset GOP powerbrokers
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Attorney General Chris Carr lost his legal effort to block his bitter rival from raising unlimited campaign cash. But he signaled his courtroom fight against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is just beginning as he accused his Republican gubernatorial opponent of “rigging the system.”
