Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 21, 2025
Aug. 21, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Lockheed’s C-130J wins “Coolest Thing Made in Georgia” competition
Jack Lindner reports that Lockheed Martin’s Marietta-made C-130J Super Hercules aircraft walked away with the title of “Coolest Thing Made in Georgia” during the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural competition Wednesday. Rod McLean, Lockheed’s vice president and general manager of Air Mobility and Maritime Missions, said the defense contractor was proud to receive the honor.
Aug. 21, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Follow Science, Not Sound Bites
Tharon Johnson writes, there was a time when people of all political stripes could agree on certain things. One of those things, until very recently, was a shared understanding that investing in science and research keeps the United States at the cutting-edge of innovation.
Aug. 21, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Southside trail loses $65M in federal cuts. Backers still aim to build it.
Emma Hurt reports, last year the Atlanta Regional Commission and a host of local communities and organizations around the Atlanta airport celebrated a nearly $65 million win. The federal government awarded the group a grant to jump-start a 31-mile trail plan that would connect the Atlanta Beltline to East Point, Hapeville and College Park as well as communities along the Flint River south of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Aug. 21, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
140-year-old Columbus business awarded for its community impact
Jordyn Paul-Slater reports that a Columbus business has received an award acknowledging its community impact, spanning 140 years. W.C. Bradley Co. received the inaugural Georgia Chamber Corporate Citizen Award at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Congressional Luncheon on Wednesday in the Columbus Convention & Trade Center.
Aug. 21, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Game on! Pro hockey returning to Augusta and backed by college football great Tim Tebow
Joe Hotchkiss reports that professional hockey is returning to Augusta and will be backed by a college football legend. Former NFL and quarterback Tim Tebow and auto-sales executive David Hodges are the new owners of the 32nd member team of the East Coast Hockey League, which will play its home games at the city’s rebuilt events arena.
Aug. 21, 2025 Saporta Report
Georgia Chamber revives Blanchard Award, giving it to Shan Cooper
Maria Saporta reports that Jimmy Blanchard has been one of the leading voices in the Georgia business community advocating for the practice of servant leadership among CEOs. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce recently decided to give greater visibility by reinstituting and renaming the Blanchard Servant Leadership Award.
Aug. 21, 2025 The Current
Chatham County buys marsh island as green space
Mary Landers reports that Chatham County added more than 400 acres of green space to its county real estate portfolio with the Aug. 12 purchase of Green Island for $6 million. The undeveloped island sits on the Intracoastal Waterway off the southern end of Skidaway Island surrounded by Green Island Sound to the south and Delegal Creek and marshlands on the east, north and west sides.
Aug. 21, 2025 Newnan Times-Herald
Coweta data center hearing to resume Sept. 11 at fairgrounds
Jeffrey Cullen-Dean reports that attendees of the Coweta County Board of Commissioner’s Tuesday night meeting filled the chairs, sat on the floor and stood out in the hallway to voice their opinions on the county’s agenda. One of those agenda items was the public hearing for the county’s proposed data center ordinance.
Aug. 21, 2025 Savannah Morning News
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock visits Pooler nonprofit after USAID funds pulled, then reinstated
Destini Ambus reports that Monday morning, MANA Nutrition CEO Mark Moore gave Sen. Raphael Warnock a tour of the global non-profit’s facilities in Pooler, showing him boxes upon boxes of the company’s meal replacements, still waiting to be shipped out to the sub-Saharan African countries of South Sudan, Chad, and Nigeria, among others, since March. Monday was Warnock’s first time ever visiting the facility, after helping the nonprofit organization secure funding following the Trump administration’s cuts to USAID contracts.
Aug. 21, 2025 WABE
Atlanta-based Home Depot keeps quiet on immigration raids outside its doors
Alina Selyukh and Liz Baker report, if there’s a company most caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, it’s Home Depot, after numerous raids near stores around the country. But the home-improvement giant has largely stayed quiet.
Aug. 21, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Georgia health officials see federal funding cuts as chance to prioritize, but seek long-term fixes
Alander Rocha reports, the Georgia Department of Public Health is navigating a period of financial uncertainty due to the Trump administration’s proposed cut federal funding, state leaders said Wednesday. Some view the shift as an opportunity to focus on Georgia-specific priorities, while others raised concerns about the state having to fill in spending gaps down the road.
Aug. 21, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Senate hopefuls highlight congressional luncheon
Dave Williams reports that U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and two of the Republicans vying for the GOP nomination to challenge the incumbent Democrat next year highlighted Wednesday’s annual Georgia Chamber Congressional Luncheon. It wasn’t a campaign stop for Ossoff and U.S. Reps. Buddy Carter of Savannah and Mike Collins of Jackson.
Aug. 21, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
JD Vance visit highlights fight to frame Donald Trump’s tax and spending law
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Vice President JD Vance will focus on tax cuts for tipped workers and seniors during a stop in Peachtree City today to rally support for the “big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law last month. Democrats, meanwhile, are intent on keeping the focus on the law’s less popular provisions, especially Medicaid cuts that could strip coverage from hundreds of thousands of Georgians and put more rural hospitals at risk.
