Georgia Trend Daily – March 3, 2025
March 3, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
Local Cotton Farmers Get Update From State Experts Ahead of Planting Season
Adam Carey reports, like an army platoon heading into a battle, area cotton farmers gathered in Armuchee to hear from statewide experts about what to expect going into the 2025 growing season. In Georgia, cotton planting generally begins in April and may continue until early June. The harvest typically starts in late September.
March 3, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
The Power of Representation: Eight Notable Women to Watch in Georgia
Patty Rasmussen reports, what causes a leader to stand out? The women highlighted here frequently noted hard work, sacrifice, mentorship – receiving and providing it – humility, taking risks and collaboration as key reasons for their success.
March 3, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tariffs will raise prices, it’s just a matter of how much, Atlanta Fed says
Mirtha Donastorg reports that the proposed tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada and other U.S. trading partners could raise prices for consumers on everyday items by up to 2.6%, according to a study released Friday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which President Donald Trump says will go into effect Tuesday after he previously postponed their implementation, drive almost half the price effect, the study’s authors found.
March 3, 2025 The Brunswick News
Isles businesses ready for spring breakers
Gordon Jackson reports, it’s that time a year again when the thermostat of the Golden Isles begins inching up to warm while much of the rest of the nation continues to deal with snow, sleet and cold weather that has lasted for months. It’s enough to give many on the other side of the Mason-Dixon line cabin fever and an urge to seek warmer, springtime-like weather.
March 3, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Delta Launching New Routes to North and West Africa Later This Year
Trevor Williams reports that Delta Air Lines Inc. is launching two new Africa routes from Atlanta later this year, strengthening its presence on the continent as a variety of African nations continue to show deeper interest in Georgia. Delta will start its first-ever service to Marrakech, Morocco, three times weekly starting on Oct. 25 and is adding seasonal daily service to the West African destination of Accra, Ghana, on Dec. 1.
March 3, 2025 Augusta Chronicle, Augusta University
A first: Augusta Univ. researcher lands grant to study link between cancer, cardiovascular disease
Heather Henley reports that a researcher at Augusta University’s Immunology Center of Georgia has been awarded the center’s first American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. The grant provides Sabrina Robichaud, PhD, with resources that will support her innovative research into the link between cancer and cardiovascular disease, an area of growing interest as scientists explore the immune system’s role in both conditions.
March 3, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
New Water Trails and Safety Features to Be Added to the Georgia River Guide App in 2025
Staff reports that new updates for the Georgia River Guide app are on the way to better connect paddlers to water trails across Georgia. Georgia Rivers received a grant from Georgia Department of Natural Resources under the Recreational Trails Program to add new water trails and more safety features to the Georgia Rivers Guide app.
March 3, 2025 Macon Telegraph
These 2 Georgia districts hold 40% of state’s federal employees. How many have lost jobs?
Lucinda Warnke reports, with increasing reports of Elon Musk’s efforts to slash the federal workforce, officials haven’t been able to clarify how many government employees in Middle Georgia have left or lost their jobs. Musk, an adviser to President Donald Trump who has been tasked with downsizing the federal government through his Department of Government Efficiency, reportedly sent out emails to federal employees demanding they outline their accomplishments or risk termination.
March 3, 2025 GPB
5 Georgia cities are losing Social Security offices
Sarah Kallis reports that regional offices assisting U.S. citizens with Social Security benefits are being closed by the Trump administration. The Department of Government Efficiency has terminated leases for five of Georgia’s 34 Social Security offices.
March 3, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Why Georgia Democrats want to repeal the Promise Scholarship school voucher program
Joseph Schwartzburt reports that Georgia families eligible for the Promise Scholarship program have between March 1 and April 15 to apply, unless Georgia Democrats repeal Senate Bill 233, also known as the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act. Georgia House Rep. Lisa Campbell (D-District 35) along with the Georgia House Democratic Caucus held a press conference Monday afternoon at the Georgia State Capitol in support of House Bill 436, which calls for the repeal.
March 3, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Advocates for Georgians with disabilities press AG to bail on suit targeting gender identity law
Jill Nolin reports that advocates are turning up the heat on Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to withdraw from a GOP-led lawsuit that they say threatens protections for people with disabilities. Carr joined 16 other states in a lawsuit filed in September against the federal government over the Biden administration’s addition of a gender identity-related disorder to the disabilities protected under a section of a 1973 federal law.
March 3, 2025 Clayton News-Daily
Parent Helps Introduce No-Sell Firearms List Bill
Staff reports that Georgia District 40 Sen. Sally Harrell, D–Atlanta, and District 34 Sen. Elena Parent, D–Atlanta, recently filed Senate Bill 224 — Donna’s Law — to allow individuals at risk for suicidal ideation to place themselves on the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System Firearms Checklist. Donna’s Law would allow individuals to place themselves on the list through a health care professional or under oath through a probate court in their county of residence.
March 3, 2025 State Affairs
Georgia General Assembly Week 7 roundup: Pink hunting vest, DOGE and sports
Beau Evans reports, it’s halftime in the 2025 legislative session under the Gold Dome. With five more weeks to go, lawmakers are steaming ahead with bills to ban transgender athletes from girls school sports, crack down on runaway lawsuit payments and craft a $40.5 billion state budget — the largest in Georgia’s history.
March 3, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
Local Lawmakers Poised For Crossover Day Deadline Fights
Adam Carey reports that time is running short for the Georgia General Assembly to agree to compensate two Floyd County men who spent decades in prison for murders they did not commit. State Rep. Katie Dempsey, R-Rome, is sponsoring two resolutions to help Joey Watkins and Darryl Lee.
March 3, 2025 WABE
New push to legalize online sports betting in Georgia includes proposed voter referendum
Rahul Bali reports that Georgia is one of 18 states that has not legalized mobile sports betting, according to the American Gaming Association. Republican State Rep. Marcus Wiedower of Watkinsville says his new legislation amends the state constitution through a statewide voter referendum.
March 3, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Best intentions of Georgia 2022 behavioral health insurance law fall short with slow implementation
Jill Nolin reports that state leaders celebrated three years ago when they passed a bipartisan measure designed to step up enforcement of a federal law that requires health insurers treat mental health and substance abuse services the same as physical care. But more than two years after that law took effect, lawmakers and advocates are voicing frustration with the state of enforcement of behavioral health parity rules passed in 2022 that were intended to improve access to care in Georgia.
March 3, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Georgia senators want to investigate groups tied to Stacey Abrams
Ty Tagami reports that the Republican chairman of a special committee of the Georgia Senate that has been investigating Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has introduced legislation that would expand the committee’s scope to include former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. “I think we ought to get to the bottom of these allegations,” Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, said Friday, explaining why he had introduced Senate Resolution 292 the day before.
March 3, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Child care tax credit won’t fix crisis in Georgia. But it’s a step, experts say
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report that it costs more than $500 a week for Shanyce Smith and her husband to put their three kids in child care. The Smiths, both teachers, have three kids — now 5 years, 2 years and 6 months old.
