Georgia Trend Daily – April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Like fine wine, Georgia’s Vidalia onion is all about the distinctive blend of water, air, soil
Amy Paige Condon reports, it is the terroir (pronounced tare-wah)―the air, the water, the lack of sulfur in the rich sandy loam of Georgia’s Magnolia Midlands―that created the distinctive conditions for the happy accident that blossomed into the Vidalia onion 96 years ago, when a farmer named Moses Coleman planted “the wrong” onion.
April 25, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Positive Childhood Alliance Georgia
Julia Roberts reports, just in time for Child Abuse Prevention [CAP] Month in April, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, the state leader in the primary prevention ecosystem is now Positive Childhood Alliance Georgia (PCA Georgia) and will remain the Georgia chapter affiliate of Prevent Child Abuse America. This transformation reflects a commitment to embracing a positive and strengths-based approach to supporting families and communities.
April 25, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Judges doubt protection of Georgia wetland under federal law
Rosie Manins reports, federal appellate judges seemed doubtful Thursday that a wetland on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act under a test recently created by the U.S. Supreme Court. During a hearing in Atlanta, 11th Circuit judges indicated they might give two Georgia environmental organizations and a member who lives in Glynn County a second opportunity to revive their complaint against the resort company that filled half an acre of the wetland on its property.
April 25, 2025 Georgia.org
Georgia Center of Innovation Hosts 2025 Logistics Summit
Staff reports that the economic impact of Georgia’s transportation and logistics industry was $107 billion in 2023, according to an economic impact study by the University of Georgia’s Selig Center for Economic Growth. The Georgia Center of Innovation, a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), hosted hundreds of attendees at the 2025 Georgia Logistics Summit, where experts offered insights on the intersection of technology and logistics, updates on infrastructure investments, and how the state is preparing the future workforce to support growth.
April 25, 2025 The Brunswick News
Oyster rule opens harvesting during warmer months
Michael Hall reports, oyster farmers in Georgia now have the option to harvest their crops during warmer months under a new rule approved this week by the Georgia Board of Natural Resources. The new regulation establishes strict time and temperature controls for certified Master Harvesters to harvest oysters when the weather is warm and when harmful bacteria are most active.
April 25, 2025 Valdosta Daily Times
Locate South Georgia announces $532M in investments in 2024
Staff reports, on April 15, Locate South Georgia released the organization’s 2024 Annual Report at a presentation to over 40 economic developers and project managers from the Georgia Department of Economic Development, Georgia Power, Georgia EMC, and Electric Cities of Georgia. The 16-page document is a high-level overview of the economic development productivity of Locate South Georgia’s 23-county region during the last calendar year, the development organization said in a press release later last week.
April 25, 2025 Capitol Beat News
New commissioner to take office at Georgia DDS
Dave Williams reports that the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) has a new commissioner. The agency’s board has approved Gov. Brian Kemp’s nomination of Angelique McClendon to take the top post at the department. She will succeed outgoing Commissioner Spencer Moore on May 1.
April 25, 2025 The Brunswick News
How the bed tax increase will impact the Isles
Gordon Jackson reports that an estimated 3 million visitors a year spending time here. They come for the beaches, parks, golf courses, water parks, restaurants, resorts and other tourism-related businesses. Many return, and they are willing to pay for a memorable stay. It’s going to cost a little more to stay in the Golden Isles starting July 1.
April 25, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Federal judge to rule on Georgia international college students’ challenge to loss of school access
Ross Williams reports that a federal judge in Atlanta is set to rule on a complaint filed by a group of 133 international college students who say the administration of President Donald Trump illegally and capriciously tried to take away their ability to study in the United States. Following a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Victoria Calvert said she will decide by the end of the month whether to issue a ruling protecting the students, who include 26 Georgia students studying at schools including the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University and Emory University.
April 25, 2025 WABE
As Georgia GOP keeps pressing anti-trans bills, Democrats debate how to respond
Sam Gringlas reports, as the Georgia legislature gaveled in this year, one of the first bills filed, Senate Bill 1, was legislation to ban transgender girls from girls school sports teams. Republicans also introduced bills to restrict puberty blockers for minors and prevent the state health plan from covering gender-affirming care.
April 25, 2025 Capitol Beat News
McCormick touts extending Trump tax cuts at business roundtable
Dave Williams reports, extending the tax cuts Congress passed early in Republican President Donald Trump’s first term will be the first order of business when federal lawmakers return to Washington next week from the Easter recess, U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick said Thursday. The tax cuts, which are due to expire at the end of this year without congressional action, played out to former President Joe Biden’s advantage when the Democrat gained the White House four years ago, McCormick, R-Suwanee, said after hosting a roundtable for North Fulton business owners at the offices of Axis Infrastructure.
April 25, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jon Ossoff’s 2026 campaign looks to pressure GOP on public health cuts
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is seizing on sharp cuts to public health agencies as he races for reelection in Georgia, transforming the Trump administration’s government-shrinking efforts into a central theme of his 2026 campaign. The Democrat will hold a town hall in Cobb County today featuring longtime staffers of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who lost their jobs shortly after President Donald Trump returned to power.
