Georgia Trend Daily – June 26, 2025
une 26, 2025 The Brunswick News
New rail capacity at Brunswick port to come online this month
Staff reports that the first phase of a new rail facility at the Port of Brunswick is slated to begin operations by the end of the month. The expansion of the port’s railroad shipping infrastructure will double rail capacity from five to 10 trains per week, the Georgia Ports Authority said.
June 26, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
A Family Tradition: A Georgia Sports Family
Loran Smith writes, the work and leadership of high school coaches, along with that of various youth league coaches across the country, has been invaluable to American communities and families for years. There have been issues, mistakes and shortcomings, but for the most part, good has prevailed for the betterment of kids.
June 26, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How AI is revolutionizing ATL’s international terminal
Emma Hurt reports, for a U.S. citizen arriving in Atlanta these days, there’s a world in which you might not even need to pull out your passport. The process of a Customs and Border Protection officer manually reviewing American passports at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been replaced with tablets that capture a passenger’s image and compare it with the government’s image database.
June 26, 2025 Macon Telegraph
New top prosecutor in Middle Georgia is a Macon resident, Georgia graduate
Alba Rosa reports that William R. “Will” Keyes will succeed C. Shanelle Booker as the new U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Keyes started his career in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2018 as an assistant U.S. attorney for Middle Georgia.
June 26, 2025 Gainesville Times
Here’s a deeper look at Kubota’s new $190M plant in Hall County
Jeff Gill reports, with the opening of sake barrels by breaking their lids with mallets, Kubota Manufacturing of America marked the beginning of operations at another of its plants off Ga. 365 in northeast Hall County. The traditional Japanese ritual capped a grand opening ceremony for the 700,000-square-foot plant at 3655 Kubota Way.
June 26, 2025 Oglethorpe Echo
Union Point receives $2.7M Firefly grant
Staff reports that Union Point will receive $2.7 million in federal and state grants to build a Firefly Trail trailhead downtown and connect it to the end of the trail near Carlton Street. “With this grant, the completion of every inch of the Firefly Trail within Greene County is in sight, and that feels great,” said Mary Cook, president of Firefly Trail Inc.
June 26, 2025 WSB Radio
City of Roswell buys 24 acres of land for $7.5M to create new park
Miles Montgomery reports, the City of Roswell has approved a land purchase for a new park that will add greenspace for all to enjoy. The new Edwin and Nelda Spruill Park, named in honor of the property’s most recent owners, was purchased for $7.5 million.
June 26, 2025 WABE
Ossoff, Warnock push to make West Hunter Street church a National Historic Site
Kendall Murry reports, Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock announced Wednesday that they are reintroducing legislation to have Atlanta’s West Hunter Street Baptist Church acknowledged as a National Historic Site. Established in 1881 and located on its current West End property since 1972, the church recently announced that it would be receiving a $200,000 grant from the Action Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving historic African American sites across the country.
June 26, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Dozens of Georgians call for lasting peace as Israel and Iran maintain fragile truce
Ross Williams reports, more than 100 people gathered in an Atlanta park Tuesday evening for a vigil opposing further American intervention in the war between Israel and Iran. As of Wednesday afternoon, Israel and Iran are engaged in a tenuous truce after U.S. forces bombed key Iranian nuclear facilities Saturday.
June 26, 2025 State Affairs
From cornbread to courtrooms: Georgia’s big 2025 law changes
Devyn Woodard reports, big changes are ahead for schools, courts, health care and housing in Georgia after Gov. Brian Kemp signed hundreds of bills that passed in the General Assembly during the 2025 legislative session. The roughly 350 bills that gained Kemp’s stamp of approval since the session’s end in April range from safety plans in schools and a ban on transgender athletes in girls sports to an overhaul of the state’s lawsuit system and tougher penalties for trafficking fentanyl.
June 26, 2025 The Current
What Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement tells us about costs of ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Margaret Coker reports, Congressional Republicans, looking for ways to offset their proposed tax cuts, are seeking to mandate that millions of Americans work in order to receive federally subsidized health insurance. The GOP tax and budget bill passed the House in May, and Senate Republicans are working feverishly to advance their draft of federal spending cuts in the coming days.
June 26, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Back from paternity leave, Ossoff takes on Trump administration officials
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, after taking two weeks off to help care for his newborn girl, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., is back in the halls of the Senate this week — and issuing verbal lashings to members of President Donald Trump’s administration. On Tuesday, there was a tense back and forth between Ossoff and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins during a hearing on budget requests for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
