Georgia Trend Daily – Nov. 24 2025

Nov. 24, 2025 Macon Telegraph

Historic $9M donation to Georgia College will ‘benefit generations of students’

Myracle Lewis reports that Georgia College and State University has been given a $9 million donation from the late Gertrude Ehrlich’s estate, the largest in the school’s 136-year history, the university announced Friday morning. The Dr. Gertrude Ehrlich Endowed Scholarship will solely support students in need, providing assistance and need-based scholarships to students.

Nov. 24, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!

Georgia Shifts Gears On Public Transportation

Gary Daughters reports, for public transit planners tasked with keeping Georgia moving, complex challenges have piled up, as it were, like the three Atlanta-area bottlenecks that rank among the nation’s Top 10. Like the jumble at Macon where the road from the Port of Savannah – the formerly sleepy Interstate 16 – meets freight-heavy Interstate 75.

Nov. 24, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Analysts warn Georgia Power bills will rise if PSC approves data center buildout

Kristi E. Swartz and Drew Kann report that analysts with the Georgia Public Service Commission’s staff deliver a stark warning in new written testimony: Georgia Power residential customers could see monthly bills jump $20 or more if the PSC allows the utility to complete the historic power fleet expansion it has proposed to support an influx of data centers. Instead, PSC staff recommend in filings that for now, the commission should approve only about a third of the new power plants and batteries the company has proposed.

Nov. 24, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Army considering Fort Benning as site for new nuclear power program

Mark Rice reports, out of hundreds of military installations, Fort Benning is among the nine locations the U.S. Department of the Army has selected as a potential site for its next-generation nuclear power project, called the Janus Program. “We were proud to learn that Fort Benning was one of nine installations the Army identified for potential deployment and use of microreactor power plants to support national security objectives and mission-critical operations,” Fort Benning garrison public affairs director Joe Cole told the Ledger-Enquirer in an email.

Nov. 24, 2025 Georgia Recorder

Georgia board approves new review process for large data centers

Mary Landers reports that proposals for data centers will be subject to state review under new rules the Georgia Department of Community Affairs adopted Thursday at its quarterly board meeting in Savannah. The board unanimously expanded what constitutes a “development of regional impact” to explicitly include data centers.

Nov. 24, 2025 Griffin Daily News

Third proposed data center to be heard by Planning Commission Nov. 25

Larry Stanford reports that two data center campuses totaling 3.9 million square feet of building space have already been approved this year by the Spalding County Board of Commissioners (BOC). A third proposed data center campus with more square feet of building space than the previous two combined will go before the Spalding County Planning Commission at their upcoming meeting.

Nov. 24, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal

Cobb reacts to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation

Megan Jackson reports that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former top supporter and ally of President Donald Trump, announced her resignation Friday in a social media post after falling out with the president. In a 10-minute video posted on X, formerly Twitter, Greene said she is resigning after Trump called her a traitor and threatened to back her GOP challenger in the 2026 primaries.

Nov. 24, 2025 Walton Tribune

Raffensperger makes his pitch

Stephen Milligan reports that Brad Raffensperger hammered two pillars for his campaign for governor again and again Tuesday when he stopped in Monroe on the campaign trail. “I’m running for governor to make Georgia affordable and safe for Georgia families,” Raffensperger said.

Nov. 24, 2025 State Affairs

Uninsured drivers targeted in push to lower insurance rates

Beau Evans reports that house lawmakers are eying a crackdown on uninsured drivers to help lower automobile insurance rates that have skyrocketed in recent years. Costs for full-coverage auto insurance have jumped about 50% from an average roughly $2,000 annually per vehicle in 2021 to nearly $3,000 in 2025, according to the online comparison platform Insurify.

Nov. 24, 2025 WABE

Georgia education department calls for lawmakers to give teachers raises, support students in poverty

Meimei Xu reports that the Georgia Department of Education is recommending that state legislators consider implementing a $10,000 raise for educators over the next five years and updating the public school funding formula to increase support for students in poverty, support staff and technology. The department released its 2026 legislative priorities on Thursday ahead of the Georgia legislative session.

Nov. 24, 2025 Georgia Recorder

Georgia lawmakers explore ways to ease transition as former foster children become adults

Maya Homan reports that each year, about 700 young adults age out of foster care in Georgia and lose access to the supports available to them while they were part of the state’s system.  In recent years, state lawmakers have created and expanded a tax credit program designed to help ease the transition.

Nov. 24, 2025 The Current

Georgia’s used-car industry leaves buyers facing consequences

Jasmine Wright reports that last year in December Jonathan Negron drove from Long County to Savannah to purchase a used, 2010 Nissan Versa from Quezon Auto Sales. More than one year — and one lawsuit — later, Negron still has no title — and no recourse to recoup the almost $3,000 that he spent for a car that he can’t legally drive in Georgia.

Nov. 24, 2025 Capitol Beat News

Rising cost of auto insurance a tough problem to solve

Ty Tagami reports that drivers saw rising auto insurance bills in recent years, yet the industry was not seeing gains, an advocate told state lawmakers Friday. Companies offering commercial, health and life insurance were posting ever higher pre-tax operating gains, but not those in the auto and home insurance segments, said Robert Passmore of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

Nov. 24, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

How the State Election Board hired the former executive director’s wife

Caleb Groves reports that members of the State Election Board fought over the hiring of the wife of the board’s former executive director as the board’s paralegal despite her having no prior legal experience, according to internal emails obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The board voted in July to hire Hope Coan despite her lack of experience.