Georgia Trend Daily – Sept. 8, 2025
Sept. 8, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
GA okra and cotton under threat from new invasive pest that’s smaller than a paperclip
Sundi Rose reports that Georgia’s okra and cotton productions are two of the state’s top-tier agricultural commodities. However, this year farmers are dealing with a new and unique challenge: the cotton jassid.
Sept. 8, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Powerful Moments: 40 Years of Georgia Trend
Kathleen Conway reports, as the magazine celebrates 40 years this month, it’s the perfect time to look back on some of the moments that have shaped us over the past four decades. Some of Georgia Trend’s previous managing editors have shared their memories.
Sept. 8, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How do small businesses win big contracts? Women’s group aims to help.
Kelly Yamanouchi reports that many small business owners dream of winning a major contract with a large firm to take their companies to the next level. Laying the groundwork to make that happen is one of the key missions of the Greater Women’s Business Council.
Sept. 8, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Wellstar Paulding Medical Center Breaks Ground on $300 Million Expansion
Staff reports, with shovels in hand and plans in motion, leaders of Wellstar Paulding Medical Center officially broke ground Thursday on a $300 million expansion project that will double the hospital’s inpatient capacity and bring new resources to one of Georgia’s fastest-growing regions. The hospital, which currently operates 112 beds and a busy emergency department with 40 adult and pediatric bays, is nearing full capacity.
Sept. 8, 2025 Savannah Morning News
What is the best employer in Georgia? Forbes ranks the state’s top 5 companies
Miguel Legoas reports, more than 180,000 Georgians are unemployed, according to the state’s department of labor. For those looking to change that, Forbes put together a list of “America’s Best Employers by State.”
Sept. 8, 2025 Newnan Times-Herald
Yokogawa’s $20 million upgrade to protect 283 jobs in Coweta
Laura Camper reports that Yokogawa has been in the county for more than 40 years and intends to do what it takes to stay. “They’re doing a two-phase investments totalling just over $20 million with the retention of 283 jobs,” said Sarah Jacobs, president of the Coweta County Development Authority.
Sept. 8, 2025 Macon Telegraph
How a big ‘carbon credits’ purchase from Netflix leads to more trees planted in GA
Margaret Walker reports that Netflix is infusing cash into Georgia’s forests, allowing for more trees to be planted in the Peach State and elsewhere around the South. The streaming giant signed a 15-year deal with the American Forest Foundation to fund new forests on family farmland in the Southeast by buying carbon credits from the Fields & Forests project.
Sept. 8, 2025 AccessWDUN
Swedish-based company moving its southeast hub to Braselton
Will Daughtry reports, a Swedish-based packaging and logistics company is moving its southeast hub from Norcross to Braselton. Nefab announced on Thursday that it has opened a $9.5-million, 150,000-square-foot facility.
Sept. 8, 2025 GPB
South Korea charters plane to fly home over 300 workers detained by ICE at Georgia Hyundai plant
Debbie Elliott reports that South Korea’s foreign minister is considering a trip to the U.S. to meet with the Trump administration after hundreds of South Korean nationals were arrested in Georgia this week at an electric vehicle battery plant. “We are deeply concerned and feel a heavy sense of responsibility over the arrests of our nationals,” Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said at an emergency meeting in Seoul, according to the national Yonhap News Agency.
Sept. 8, 2025 Rome News-Tribune, CQ Roll Call
Loudermilk subpanel cleared to investigate Jan. 6
Justin Papp reports, a select subcommittee to continue a Republican-led reinvestigation of the events around Jan. 6, 2021, has officially been given the green light. It’s been a long time coming for Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, who represented Floyd County as a state legislator and now counts Gordon and Bartow counties among his 11th Congressional district.
Sept. 8, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Ban on gender-affirming care in Georgia prisons is on hold, for now
Ross Williams reports that transgender people incarcerated in Georgia prisons can once again receive some gender-affirming care, at least temporarily, following a judge’s order. A federal judge ruled Thursday that a ban on using public funds for gender-affirming care in state prisons likely violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
Sept. 8, 2025 State Affairs
Georgia Guard to join law enforcement operations in nation’s capital
Beau Evans reports that Gov. Brian Kemp is sending the Georgia National Guard to Washington, D.C., to assist with the federal government’s policing activities happening there since August. The governor’s office confirmed Friday that 300 troops will deploy later this month to relieve other states’ National Guard members on duty in Washington since early August, according to a news release.
Sept. 8, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Grieving parents urge self-protection as lawmakers struggle to rein in social media
Ty Tagami reports that Vincent LaBella did not see signs that his daughter was suffering until the police issued a warrant that allowed him to see the social media activity on her phone. He had noticed that his young teen was glued to the device, but so were her friends.
Sept. 8, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Trump’s tax law boosts safety net for farmers, but tariff uncertainty lingers
Caleb Groves reports that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending law, known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” includes subsidies for some Georgia farmers, but tariffs could threaten to undermine some of those gains. The law includes more than $60 billion in spending to support agriculture over the next decade, with most of that expected to prop up prices for 22 crops, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
