Georgia Trend Daily – June 4, 2025
June 4, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Fortune 500’s biggest corporations in US includes 17 in Georgia. How much are they worth?
Miguel Legoas reports that Georgia is home to some major companies, and according to Fortune, that includes some of the very biggest. On Monday, this year’s Fortune 500 list was released ranking the 500 largest corporations in America ranked by revenue, including 17 in Georgia.
June 4, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Change Makers: Six Georgia Counties Lead Innovation
Rachel Wallenstein reports, each year, ACCG, a nonprofit organization of the state’s county governments, presents the County Excellence Awards to leaders who develop creative and outstanding solutions to community challenges. This year’s winners have demonstrated ingenuity and a commitment to making a meaningful impact on their communities.
June 4, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ICE arrests sparked fear on Buford Highway. For many, business hasn’t recovered.
Savannah Sicurella reports, for more than a decade, Jose Olague has run a sportswear store out of Plaza Fiesta, the bustling Latin-centric shopping center on Buford Highway at the edge of Brookhaven. He sells jerseys, cleats, wrestling masks and other assorted ephemera like key chains, hats and toys, all popular items among customers passing through the mall.
June 4, 2025 The Current
New airport en route to Bryan County
Lily Belle Poling reports that Bryan County is preparing to develop its very own airport, but first, local officials must appoint members to the newly established Richmond Hill-Bryan County Airport Authority. The bill that established the airport authority and tasked it with developing and operating new airports and landing fields stipulates that the panel will be composed of 11 members, who must be appointed by June 30.
June 4, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Savannah area workforce initiative receives $25k donation from CareSource
Joseph Schwartzburg reports that a $25,000 donation from CareSource, a national nonprofit healthcare plan provider, for workforce development initiatives has come at a critical time for Rincon’s Ready2CONNECT. The local nonprofit career-readiness organization serves under- and unemployed community members in Effingham and Chatham Counties.
June 4, 2025 WABE
Atlanta News First to end 31-year affiliation with CBS
Meimei Xu reports that Atlanta News First is planning to end its 31-year affiliation with CBS to become an independent television station, as CBS shifts its Atlanta network outlet from WANF Channel 46 to WUPA Channel 69. WUPA will become CBS Atlanta starting Aug. 16 and will include the launch of a CBS News Atlanta streaming channel, according to a Monday press release by Paramount.
June 4, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith receives 2025 Sheriff of the Year from peers
Wayne Ford reports that Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith, who dealt with the effects of one of the worse tragedies in Georgia history in the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting, was selected as the Georgia Sheriff’s Association’s 2025 Sheriff of the Year. “His dedication to the Barrow County community is unmatched and his ability to connect with people from all walks of life has fostered a sense of trust and respect,” the sheriff’s association noted in a news release.
June 4, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Judge Pauses State Sanctions put on Cobb, Cities
Annie Mayne reports that the sanctions that would cut off millions of dollars in state funding for Cobb County and its seven cities are on hold, thanks to a Monday ruling from a Cobb Superior Court judge.The DCA placed Cobb and its cities under the sanctions at 12:01 a.m. Sunday because the city of Mableton and Cobb County failed to pass a series of intergovernmental agreements working Mableton into the county’s existing Service Delivery Strategy agreement by the May 31 deadline.
June 4, 2025 The Brunswick News
Programs to offer insights into Superfund sites
Michael Hall reports, if local people missed a recent meeting with Environmental Protection Agency representatives about the four local active Superfund sites, the Glynn Environmental Coalition is offering two opportunities to learn about how cleanup efforts are going. The first is Saturday, June 7, and is a Superfund Field Trip during which staff from the coalition will take people to the sites and tell them about what is being done to clean up legacy pollution and where that cleanup effort stands.
June 4, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Georgia lawmakers hear ideas for reducing cancer burden
Ty Tamai reports that lack of access to cancer screening is costing Georgia heartache and money, especially in rural areas with fewer doctors and an aging population, state lawmakers learned Tuesday. It was the second hearing of a study committee of the Georgia House of Representatives, which met in Albany at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital to hear from experts.
June 4, 2025 Appen Media
Alpharetta councilman resigns, will run for Beach’s Senate seat
Jon Wilcox reports that Alpharetta City Councilman Brian Will announced June 3 he is seeking the seat of former state Sen. Brandon Beach and will resign his council seat. Will said he has qualified for the race as a Republican and plans to resign from his council seat this afternoon.
June 4, 2025 Capitol Beat News
State Senator Launches Campaign for Ga. Attorney General
Dave Williams reports that State Sen. Brian Strickland entered the 2026 race for Georgia attorney general Tuesday, pledging to uphold Georgia’s conservative values against attacks from “the Left.” “We’re proud to run on my reputation as a conservative fighter who knows to win,” Strickland said during a news conference at Liberty Plaza across from the state Capitol.
June 4, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Conservative groups denounce antisemitism ahead of Georgia GOP convention
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report that two of Georgia’s most influential conservative groups united this week to reaffirm that “antisemitism has no place in the Georgia GOP.” But the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition and the Republican Jewish Coalition-Atlanta didn’t release the statement just because of the recent violence targeting Jewish Americans. It was also partly a response to activists, including David Cross, who is challenging Georgia GOP chair Josh McKoon at this weekend’s state party convention in Dalton.
