Georgia Trend Daily – May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025 Savannah Morning News
‘Not feasible’: Coastal Housing Study says Bryan County lacks affordable housing
Latrice Williams reports that Georgia Tech has completed its four-county study of Coastal Georgia’s housing stock. Bulloch, Bryan, Chatham and Effingham County each face their own challenges but they all have one thing in common – a need for more affordable housing.
Shepherd Center rehabilitation expert conducting therapy session for severe injury. Photo credit: contributed
May 19, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Exceptional Recovery Outcomes for Injured Workers Through Partnerships and Claims Service
Belinda Fleming and Bruce W. Moseley report, imagine this real-life crisis – a construction foreman, a pillar to his crew and family, sidelined by a severe workplace injury. Beyond whatever physical pain lies a flood of worries: mounting medical bills, lost income and the daunting path to recovery.
May 19, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What’s the best city to start a career? In 2025, Atlanta tops the list.
Hunter Boyce reports that according to the latest rankings from WalletHub, Georgia’s home to the best place to start a career this year. In fact, Southern cities were all over the personal finance company’s 2025 list. But none could outcompete the Peach State’s capital.
May 19, 2025 The Brunswick News
$1.2M in EPA grants coming to Coastal Georgia
Hank Rowland reports that coastal Georgia will receive a portion of millions of dollars from the EPA in Brownfields grants to assess and clean up communities. U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-1, announced the $18.9 million in U.S. Environmental Protection grants Friday.
May 19, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Purveyors of hemp beverages high on Georgia market, as beer hits new low
Ty Tagami reports that Georgians have had a long relationship with beer, an affection that grew during the pandemic before it started to unravel. Now, many are attracted to a new and different product, something with intoxicating power but without the familiar downsides: hemp beverages.
May 19, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
HGTV’s 40 most charming small-town downtowns in US includes two in Georgia.
Miguel Legoas reports that HGTV recently released its list of the ’40 Most Charming Small-Town Downtowns in America.’ Two of them were in Georgia: Athens and Dahlonega.
May 19, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Georgia offers carbon credits for mass timber projects. How it works.
Margaret Walker reports that Georgia is the first state in the nation to create a carbon registry program that rewards sustainable building practices with carbon credits, with goals to boost both the state’s environment and economy equally. And while only one building project has made it to the registry since the program started, those who helped start the program are confident more developments in the Peach State will start taking advantage of the program soon.
May 19, 2025 Clayton News-Daily
Clayton County To Receive Housing Market Grant
Staff reports that Clayton County — and the cities of Lake City, Forest Park, Riverdale and Jonesboro — will receive a $200,000 grant to conduct a technical, data-driven analysis of the current housing market. The grant is through the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Community Development Assistance Program.
May 19, 2025 Cartersville Daily Tribune
Springbank data center application withdrawn
David Herron reports, before the Bartow County Commissioner’s meeting May 14, Atlas Development withdrew its rezoning application for a data center on Barnsley Gardens Road. “They officially withdrew yesterday [May 13] by their attorney,” Bartow County Community Development Director Brandon Johnson said.
May 19, 2025 State Affairs
Thousands of K-12 students approved for private school vouchers
Beau Evans reports that the first round of students have been approved for new $6,500 vouchers that allow students to transfer from a low-performing public school to a private school. More than 7,200 children were deemed eligible out of roughly 11,000 family applicants between March and mid-April for the Georgia Promise Scholarship that lawmakers approved last year, according to data from the Georgia Student Finance Commission.
May 19, 2025 The Current
He became the face of Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement. Now he’s fed up with it.
Margaret Coker reports, last summer, as political debate swirled over the future of Georgia’s experiment with Medicaid work requirements, Gov. Brian Kemp held a press conference to unveil a three-minute testimonial video featuring a mechanic who works on classic cars. Luke Seaborn, a 54-year-old from rural Jefferson, became the de facto face of Georgia Pathways to Coverage, Kemp’s insurance program for impoverished Georgians.
May 19, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
Local Lawmakers Assigned to Study Committees
Staff reports that several local lawmakers will be heading up study committees this year with an eye to determining if legislative changes are needed when the Georgia General Assembly reconvenes in 2026. State Rep. Katie Dempsey, R-Rome, will chair the House Study Committee on Abandoned Child Placement Following Hospital Discharge.
May 19, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Clock ticking for Georgia voter registration to elect two new members to Public Service Commission
Stanley Dunlap reports that Monday is the last day to register to vote in the June 17 primary to fill two Georgia Public Service Commission seats on an embattled board that has faced criticism for a series of Georgia Power rate hikes over the last several years. Winners of the upcoming primaries will face off in November to determine who will serve on the five-member charged with regulating a number of telecommunications, electricity and natural gas services across the state.
May 19, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Federal appeals court hears arguments over Georgia election maps
Ty Tagami reports, as Georgia looks ahead to the 2026 elections, a court fight is still brewing over the election maps scheduled to be used. The federal court of appeals in Atlanta heard three cases Thursday stemming from those early maps, which were drawn by state lawmakers in response to the decennial population count in 2020.
May 19, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia abortion law questioned as brain-dead pregnant woman is kept on life support
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report that the recently revealed story of a brain-dead pregnant women who has been on life support since February has reignited the simmering legal and medical debate over Georgia’s strict abortion law. Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when physicians declared her brain dead in mid-February after doctors discovered multiple blood clots in her brain.
