Georgia Trend Daily – Dec. 1, 2025
Dec. 1, 2025 GPB
How rising sea levels could spread pollution from Georgia’s coastal factories
Chase McGee reports that a new study published in the journal Nature Communications details the risks of sea level rise to industrial facilities including those on Georgia’s coast. Researchers found around one dozen industrial, production and defense facilities in Coastal Georgia at risk of flooding by 2050 in its best-case scenario, including sites in Savannah and Brunswick.
Dec. 1, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
When the Stakes are Highest, Augusta University Wins
Jana Lawrence reports, at Augusta University, we’re loaded… with All-American talent. Not just the kind that wins trophies. The kind that saves lives. Strength that powers through the toughest diagnoses. Speed that accelerates breakthroughs in research and care. Hands that heal, comfort, and restore hope.
Dec. 1, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia lands location of prestigious Sundance television program
Savanna Sicurella reports, though Atlanta lost out on its bid to become the next location of the Sundance Institute’s eponymous film festival, the metro area will soon become the home to one of its writers’ programs. The nonprofit’s weeklong Episodic Program, which provides writers an opportunity to workshop a television pilot and receive mentorship from industry veterans, will relocate its annual program to the historic Dunaway Gardens in Newnan ahead of its 2026 class.
Dec. 1, 2025 Tifton Gazette
Tifton business selected for national Made in America Holiday Gift Guide
Staff reports that a Tifton business has been selected for The 2025 Made in America Holiday Gift Guide, a national guide of American-made gifts and holiday supplies that launched on Nov. 12. Southern Drawl, known for making bed sheets “from field to fabric,” supports Georgia farmers, according to a press release from the guide.
Dec. 1, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
New opportunity for Columbus entrepreneurs launches at Highside Market.
Jordyn Paul-Slater reports that small business owners have a unique opportunity opening soon in Highside Market. StartUP Columbus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow new businesses in the Chattahoochee Valley, is launching its retail incubator, called retailLAB.
Dec. 1, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Questions rise for stormwater fees in Georgia. What does it mean for Savannah?
Evan Lasseter reports that Savannah City Council discussed a potential solution to its stormwater challenges on Nov. 25, City Attorney Bates Lovett took the podium. He wasn’t there to “rain on the parade” of council’s optimism about a potential stormwater utility program, Lovett said.
Dec. 1, 2025 Macon Telegraph
How Macon cleaned up contaminated land to make room for new Mercer medical school
Margaret Walker reports that the site on Riverside Drive where Mercer University plans to build its new medical school went undeveloped for decades. In the early 20th century, it was a manufactured gas plant, leaving behind contaminants including lead, arsenic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, according to a cleanup plan, called a Voluntary Investigation and Remediation Plan that was prepared for Macon-Bibb County.
Dec. 1, 2025 The Current
Federal Medicaid cuts could limit access to services for people with disabilities
Domonique King reports that in the 17 years since giving birth to son Eli, Michelle Heyman has become a master at the complex bureaucratic hurdles of Medicaid, the federal health insurance available to low-income children, the elderly and disabled in Georgia. The federal funding pays for expensive and intensive daily care that the Heymans need to keep Eli living at home with his family.
Dec. 1, 2025 Decaturish
Decatur commission to discuss direct election for mayor
Dan Whisenhunt reports that Patti Garrett is a city commissioner who has served as Decatur’s mayor for a decade. Under the current system, mayors are elected annually by a consensus vote of the commission. But that could soon change.
Dec. 1, 2025 State Affairs
Georgia’s biggest new laws of 2025: From tax cuts to cell phone bans
Beau Evans reports, it’s been a busy year for new laws in Georgia. The General Assembly passed 370 bills, nearly all of which were signed by Gov. Brian Kemp and took effect in July.
Dec. 1, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Strickland says Georgia’s future ‘on the line’ in attorney general race
Isabelle Manders reports, as he campaigns for Georgia attorney general, state Sen. Brian Strickland, R-McDonough, sat down with the MDJ to discuss his priorities, background and approach to the race. Strickland has served in the General Assembly since 2012, first in the state House and then, in 2018, the state Senate, representing District 42, which includes residents in Morgan County and parts of Henry, Walton and Newton counties.
Dec. 1, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Lawmakers dish out an extra helping of Georgia pride this year through new tasty symbols
Maya Homan reports, amid a number of contentious partisan debates, it can sometimes feel rare to find issues that lawmakers from across the aisle can agree on. But under the Georgia state Capitol’s gold dome — as in life — food often serves as a uniting force.
Dec. 1, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Lawmakers, including former defendant, react to dismissal of Trump election case in Georgia
Ty Tagami reports that the only lawmaker among the group of co-indictees with President Donald Trump who were dismissed from the election fraud prosecution this week lashed out at the Fulton County district attorney who brought the charges more than two years ago. “I genuinely believe that Fani Willis knew from the beginning that there was no evidence of any criminal intent on my part,” Sen. Shawn Still, R-Johns Creek, said in a statement after a judge in Fulton County dismissed all defendants Wednesday at the request of a special prosecutor.
Dec. 1, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brad Raffensperger wants to ‘move on’ after Trump’s Fulton County case ends
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, the demise of Fulton County’s election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants left many of his Republican allies feeling vindicated. But in some ways, the reactions to last week’s news in the GOP is as complicated as the case itself.
