Georgia Trend Daily – June 24, 2026
June 24, 2026 GPB
Georgia Power has a massive plan for new power lines. What does that mean for the homes near them?
Grant Blankenship reports, on a recent morning, Claudia Moore was at home, with her kids, watching them do what kids love to do in the summer. “Watch!” Moore’s daughter shouted from the aboveground pool just off the driveway and at the edge of the woods.
June 24, 2026 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Columbus: Muscogee County | The Envy of The South
Jennifer Hafer reports that bringing together public, private and nonprofit stakeholders to solve community problems and drive growth continues to be a winning strategy for this city on the rise. It’s the Columbus Way. “The city changes almost day by day,” says Mayor Skip Henderson.
June 24, 2026 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Warner—Paramount merger threatens more CNN and Turner jobs in Atlanta
Savannah Sicurella reports, when Millie de Chirico graduated from Georgia State University, she stepped right into what was then the gold standard of working in television in Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System. It was 2004, and de Chirico was hired as the assistant to the programming department at Turner Classic Movies.
June 24, 2026 GPB
Over a year after USAID, the path for Georgia peanuts to reach starving kids is still unclear
Grant Blankenship reports that the production line at Mana Nutrition in Fitzgerald, Ga., population about 8,000, chugged along on a day in May as company compliance officer Andrea Hines led a tour of dignitaries, from near and far. “We have an expansion that we’ll walk past,” Hines told the group comprising Georgia farmers, local elected officials, and members of the Trump administration.
June 24, 2026 WABE
Georgia is losing farmland fast. A new state program aims to help save it
Emily Jones reports that Russ Moon grows corn, soybeans and strawberries and raises cattle on his family farm in Madison County, Georgia, outside of Athens. His family has worked that land for four generations, around 100 years.
June 24, 2026 Valdosta Daily Times
South Georgians dominate farm study committee
Staff reports that multiple South Georgia lawmakers will sit on a joint committee focused on preserving family farms. On Monday, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced the senators serving on the Joint Study Committee on Generational Sustainability of Family Farms.
June 24, 2026 GlobalAtlanta.com
What Haiti’s World Cup Match in Atlanta Means to the City’s Diaspora Community
Trevor Williams reports that while Haiti became the first team eliminated from the FIFA World Cup last week, for its Atlanta diaspora community, a modicum of victory had already been achieved. Coming back to the tournament after 50 years away, particularly at this challenging time in the nation’s history, injected some much-needed optimism around Haitian identity and brought new visibility to its accomplished, entrepreneurial diaspora in cities like Atlanta.
June 24, 2026 The Brunswick News
BHA to work harder on resident self-sufficiency
Taylor Cooper reports, getting residents to move out of public housing has always been a goal, Executive Director Christopher Baisden told the Brunswick Housing Authority Commission at a Monday meeting. But, once a quarter or so, the authority’s leadership has started holding talks with low- and no-income public housing residents about what they would need to be self-sufficient.
June 24, 2026 State Affairs
Elections fix approved despite last-minute scrambling
Jack Rutherford reports that the General Assembly passed a measure that would extend the legal deadline to replace how the state casts and counts ballots to Jan. 1, 2028, leaving the current system in place before November’s general elections. The current system, using QR codes to count votes, would have become illegal after the original deadline.
June 24, 2026 Georgia Recorder
Ballot QR code bill headed to governor after Georgia lawmakers scale back hand-counting requirement
Maya Homan reports that Georgia lawmakers dialed back a controversial change that would have mandated hand recounts of the two top-ticket races in every election before local officials could certify the results. The hand-count provision was added by Senate Republicans over the weekend to a measure extending the state’s self-imposed deadline to stop using ballot QR codes to tally votes, prompting outcry from Democrats, local election officials and other advocacy groups.
June 24, 2026 Capitol Beat News
Lawmakers go home after postponing changes to election system
Ty Tagami reports that Georgians should continue voting with the same machines they have been using for years until a new system can be acquired in 2028, lawmakers decided before ending their special session Tuesday. In largely partisan votes by the state House and Senate, Republicans approved a measure that delays their previous July 1 ban on the use of QR codes to tabulate votes.
June 24, 2026 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bottoms challenges Jackson to trio of televised debates in governor’s race
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Democratic nominee for governor Keisha Lance Bottoms called for three televised debates against Republican nominee Rick Jackson, including at least one town hall-style event where voters can ask questions directly. Bottoms has already committed to the Atlanta Press Club’s Oct. 12 debate and said her campaign is seeking additional forums in other regions of the state.
