Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 8, 2025
Aug. 8, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Lending Tree report ranks Georgia 9th in nation for construction
Staff reports, according to a new report by online loan shopping website Lending Tree, Georgia ranks within the Top 10 states for the construction industry. At No. 9, Georgia’s median wage for construction workers increased by 8.7% as the national median wage grew by 21% between 2021 and 2024―a figure more than twice other occupations―to $28.06 per hour.
Historic Course: East Lake Golf Club hosts the PGA TOUR Championship each August. Photo credit: Evan Schiller
Aug. 8, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
TOUR Championship Arrives This Month
Julia Roberts reports, East Lake Golf Club, the home course of Bobby Jones revitalized in the 1990’s by the late Tom Cousins, is again the unforgettable backdrop to the PGA’s final event of the season – the TOUR Championship. From August 20-24, golfers and spectators will descend on Atlanta for the TOUR Championship.
Aug. 8, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ga. 400 toll lanes, state’s most expensive project, close on financing
Emma Hurt reports that the group that last year won a massive contract to build and operate the new Ga. 400 express lanes has closed on the record-breaking financing package needed to pull off the nearly $11 billion project. SR 400 Peach Partners expects to build the new 16-mile managed lanes by 2031 and collect tolls along the route for 50 years.
Aug. 8, 2025 The Brunswick News
Report: Glynn economy is as strong as ever
Michael Hall reports that the average person who doesn’t study economics likely has failed to notice how strong Glynn County’s economy has been during the past several years. Don Mathews is not that average person. As a professor of economics at College of Coastal Georgia and director of the Reg Murphy Center for Economics and Policy Studies, Mathews spends much of his time poring over data to produce annual reports on the strength of the county’s economy.
Aug. 8, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
One week, three Georgia businesses, 249 employees laid off. Here’s what we know
Miguel Legoas reports, hundreds of members of Georgia’s workforce will need to find new jobs. In the span of two days, more than 200 employees across three different companies are being let go, according to WARN Notices received by the USA Today Network.
Aug. 8, 2025 WSB Radio
Local company plans to lay off hundreds of contract airline workers
Staff reports that hundreds of airline contract workers at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport will be losing their jobs in September. Atlanta-based ground handling services company Unifi Aviation reports that Delta has terminated its contract with them.
Aug. 8, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Climate activists want to cast wider net outside Atlanta, help Macon residents
Margaret Walker reports, this Saturday, a statewide coalition of Atlanta-based environmental groups are hitting the road and coming to Macon. The GOST Network, which stands for Georgians Organized to Survive and Thrive, is hosting resiliency workshops across the state, and its first stop is in Macon at the Rosa Jackson Rec Center at 1211 Maynard St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Aug. 8, 2025 Griffin Daily News
Army veteran receives free tractor through Kubota’s “Geared to Give”
Larry Stanford reports that army veteran Darnell Dugger received a brand-new Kubota MX5400HST utility tractor on Aug. 1 at his Acre & Herd Ranch in Griffin, thanks to Kubota’s “Geared to Give” program. The initiative, created by Kubota Tractor Corporation in partnership with the Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC), honors military veterans pursuing careers in agriculture by donating new equipment to five farmer veterans across the country each year.
Aug. 8, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Emory University contract part of the Trump administration’s recent vaccine research ‘wind-down’
Maya Homan reports that a research project at Emory University is among the 22 grants and contracts that are being cancelled as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services begins a “coordinated wind-down” of research studying mRNA vaccine technology. The grants, which were being developed under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, amounted to nearly $500 million in funding to research projects.
Aug. 8, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Warnock asks feds to reinstate grant for Savannah drainage program
Staff reports that Senator Warnock is urging Homeland Security to reinstate a $30 million flood mitigation grant for Savannah. The grant, intended for Springfield Canal project, was jeopardized by FEMA program cuts.
Aug. 8, 2025 State Affairs
More than 360,000 students chronically absent from school as lawmakers seek solutions
Beau Evans reports, why did more than 360,000 students in Georgia’s public K-12 schools miss 18 or more days of class last year? That’s the question lawmakers are tackling in the newly formed Senate Study Committee on Combatting Absenteeism in Schools, which held its first hearing Thursday to probe the causes of students missing school and how to reverse course.
Aug. 8, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Georgia attorney general sues GOP primary opponent over campaign fundraising
Ty Tagami reports that Chris Carr, Georgia’s attorney general and a candidate for governor, is suing his Republican primary opponent in federal court over a campaign finance issue. The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta filed Thursday follows a complaint by Carr against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones that was dismissed by the State Ethics Commission last month.
Aug. 8, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia seeks to dismiss Confederate group’s Stone Mountain lawsuits
Caleb Groves reports, the state is pushing back against a series of lawsuits filed by the Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The group is suing the state over the relocation of Confederate flags at Stone Mountain Park and the park’s planned “truth-telling” exhibit about the Civil War, slavery, segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.
