Georgia Trend Daily – Sept. 22, 2025
Sept. 22, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Delta Air Lines announces 2 new island destinations picked by voters. See the European hot spots
Vanessa Countryman reports, after months of speculation and a vote that involved nearly 150,000 participants, Delta Air Lines has revealed its next big move. Two new Mediterranean island routes launching in 2026: Sardinia and Malta.
Sept. 22, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Darien | McIntosh County: Hidden Gem
Betty Darby reports, for decades, McIntosh County has been a sleepy place, drowsing away on marsh banks and under live oaks. Darien, the county’s only municipality (and tied with Augusta as Georgia’s second-oldest city) essentially remains a working shrimping village. The county hosts not a single traffic light, unless you count two blinking ones scattered over its 431 square miles.
Sept. 22, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Meet the Atlanta firm that just got a $2.3 billion investment
Mirtha Donastorg reports that OneDigital, an Atlanta-based insurance and financial services company, has received a multi-billion dollar investment to fuel its expansion, the company announced Friday. The deal values the company at $7.2 billion.
Sept. 22, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Hyundai to Invest $2.7B in Georgia, Showing Commitment Despite Immigration Raid
Trevor Williams reports, even after a Sept. 4 immigration raid that threw a wrench into its operations, Hyundai Motor Group this week said Thursday it would invest $2.7 billion more in Georgia, clarifying plans to create thousands more jobs at its Metaplant near Savannah. Hyundai announced earlier this year that it would basically double down on the $20.5 billion the conglomerate has already invested in the United States, but it hadn’t said how its Georgia car facilities would be affected.
Sept. 22, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
Formerly unhoused find a home through Housing Initiative partnership
Mo Burge reports that Kevin’s housing comes courtesy of a joint partnership with the City of Rome and the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority. “The partnership between the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority and the City of Rome is making a tangible difference in our community,” said authority CEO Justin Jones.
Sept. 22, 2025 The Brunswick News
City commission to hold homelessness roundtable on Monday
Taylor Cooper reports that city commissioners will hold a special-called meeting on Monday to brainstorm ways to assist local charities and nonprofits in helping the homeless population or fill in the gaps in existing services. “The discussion around that will be multifaceted. We don’t normally have time or an opportunity to sit as a group and brainstorm, so it’s going to really be a brainstorming session,” Commissioner Lance Sabbe said.
Sept. 22, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Inside Look: MercyMed celebrates opening of new wellness center
Mike Haskey reports that MercyMed of Columbus celebrated their new wellness center during a grand opening ceremony and reception on Sept. 18, 2025. It’s located at 3600 2nd Ave. in Columbus, Georgia.
Sept. 22, 2025 WABE
Atlanta Community Food Bank receives nearly $500K in donations, grant funds
Meimei Xu reports that the Atlanta Community Food Bank has received nearly $500,000 in funds as a result of partnerships with Norfolk Southern, Walmart and Sam’s Club, the hunger relief organization announced this week. The ACFB works with more than 700 nonprofit food distribution partners across the metro Atlanta and north Georgia region.
Sept. 22, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Arby’s Foundation Grants $243,000 to Local Georgia Nonprofits
Guy Rudiger reports that the Arby’s Foundation, the charitable arm of Arby’s, today announced a total of $243,300 in grants is being awarded to eight local Georgia nonprofits this September. Throughout the state, the grants will support local and regional initiatives that address childhood hunger, build youth leadership, and promote career readiness—key focus areas for the Foundation’s national and community-based impact.
Sept. 22, 2025 WABE
Atlanta-based journalist ordered deported after covering anti-Trump protest
Emily Wu Pearson reports that Mario Guevara, a Spanish language journalist who runs MGNews, was ordered by the Board of Immigration Appeals on Friday to be deported to El Salvador. After the decision, the American Civil Liberties Union called for his immediate release from detention and flagged concerns for his safety if he is deported.
Sept. 22, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Democrats’ chief visits Georgia to campaign with state Senate candidate as runoff enters homestretch
Jill Nolin reports that the national Democratic Party’s top official campaigned in Georgia this weekend with Democrat Debra Shigley in hopes of helping her flip a conservative state Senate district in the north Atlanta suburbs. Ken Martin, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, called Shigley’s surprising first-place finish in last month’s seven-way race “a huge overperformance for Democrats in a district that has historically been pretty red.”
Sept. 22, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Georgia lawmakers look for ways keep social media from harming children
Ty Tagami reports, in a rare bipartisan act to protect children, Georgia legislators adopted a law last year that regulated social media companies. But the industry sued and, for now, has sidelined the prohibition on advertising to children.
Sept. 22, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mike Collins didn’t vote on Charlie Kirk measure — but still slammed Democrats
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins blasted Democrats as “shameful” for opposing a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk and condemning his assassin — but he didn’t vote on the bill himself. The Senate candidate posted the broadside after Friday morning’s vote, only to delete it after journalists and others pointed out his own absence from the roll call.
