Georgia Trend Daily – Sept. 3, 2025
Sept. 3, 2025 Valdosta Daily Times
More than 60 historic homes and sites to open for tours during Georgia Trust Fall Ramble
Staff reports that more than 60 historic homes and sites in Valdosta and Quitman will be open for tours during the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Fall Ramble on Oct. 10-12. The event will offer visitors and residents alike a rare opportunity to explore private homes not usually open to the public and to go behind the scenes of historically significant sites, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation said in a press release.
Sept. 3, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
2025 Higher Education Directory
Staff reports, it’s no secret that Georgia is continually ranked as the top place to do business in the country, and our strong higher education system certainly plays a part in that success. The 89 colleges in this year’s Higher Education Directory continue to work together to strengthen the state’s talent pipeline, expand opportunities for students and bolster career readiness, ensuring the state has a strong workforce for years to come.
Sept. 3, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Unrest among Atlanta attorneys drives unprecedented legal market growth
Rosie Manins reports that an alarming number of departures from Atlanta law firms by leading attorneys wanting to take their practice elsewhere is bringing to the city outside firms eager to establish a presence in what they see as the gateway to the Southeast. In the last year, dozens of practice heads and senior lawyers have ended long stints at prominent Atlanta firms to establish local offices of national and international firms with plans for expansion.
Sept. 3, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Blazing a new trail: City moves forward to repair Helene-damaged sections of Augusta Canal
Joe Hotchkiss reports that Augusta officials think they’ve found the best dam engineering firm they could to start repairing parts of the Augusta Canal battered by Hurricane Helene. The city’s Engineering Services Committee recently voted to enter into an engineering contract with a Virginia-based company to provide “assessment, design, bidding and construction administration services” to repair embankments damaged by high winds and fallen trees.
Sept. 3, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Chatham Emergency Management Agency has a new evacuation plan for hurricane season
Ansley Franco reports that the Chatham Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) has unveiled a new evacuation plan for the 2025 hurricane season, including an agreement with Macon-Bibb County to shelter residents in the event of a major storm. While hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, peak activity typically occurs between mid-August and October.
Sept. 3, 2025 The Current
Camden County’s appeal fails, must settle $2.6 million debt for spaceport site
Margaret Coker reports that Camden County must pay the outstanding money owed to Union Carbide Corp. for the land on which county commissioners had wanted to build a now defunct spaceport project, a federal appeals court has ruled. The ruling is the latest blow to the county which has spent more than $12 million dollars in legal costs fighting its citizens who were against the spaceport as a waste of taxpayer money and managed to stop it via a citizens’ referendum.
Sept. 3, 2025 Capitol Beat News
General Assembly looking to reinvigorate state-run venture capital fund
Dave Williams reports that Georgia lawmakers are taking a fresh look at a state-run venture capital fund that was created a dozen years ago. The General Assembly intended to jumpstart Invest Georgia in 2013 with an infusion of $100 million, Charlie Thompson, the fund’s board chairman, told members of a state House study committee Tuesday.
Sept. 3, 2025 The Brunswick News
FLETC clarifies how ICE surge training will affect other agencies
Staff reports that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers clarified Friday how the increased focus on surge training for new Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruits will affect training offered to other federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. FLETC has been tasked with training 10,000 new ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations personnel and 1,000 ICE Homeland Security Investigations personnel recently hired as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants illegally in the country.
Sept. 3, 2025 Newnan Times-Herald
Coweta GOP missed reset, critics say Frost family keeps party ‘small by design’
Clay Neely reports, last week’s meeting of the Coweta County Republican party was billed as the start of a new chapter. Instead, critics say it was marred by internal disputes, last minute maneuvering to keep Brant Frost V in power, and a core group of voting members unwilling to turn the page on the Frost saga, despite a handful urging the party to put itself above the family that has been its face for more than a decade.
Sept. 3, 2025 State Affairs
The wheels on the bus: Aging school fleets still struggling despite $40M for replacements
Beau Evans reports that Mickie Samper knows it’s only a matter of time before one of her buses breaks down. She serves as transportation director for public schools in Meriwether County, a rural area in west-central Georgia with about 2,000 students.
Sept. 3, 2025 Capitol Beat News
State floating new rules for data centers
Dave Williams reports that the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is proposing new rules aimed at allowing the state agency to resume its reviews of new data center projects. The DCA called a temporary pause to state reviews of Development of Regional Impact (DRI) proposals for data centers back in July.
Sept. 3, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Buddy Carter courts crucial Trump endorsement in new statewide TV ad
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Trusted by Trump.” That’s the new tagline for what U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter’s campaign describes as a seven-figure statewide ad buy for his Senate bid. The Savannah-area Republican unveiled the ad this morning as he presses for President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
