Georgia Trend Daily – Sept. 17, 2025
Sept. 17, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Foreign firms’ share of Georgia investment falls in record year overall
Trevor Williams reports, Georgia marks a record year with $26.3 billion in pledged investment, the share of the total coming from international companies has decreased in comparison to recent years. Of the 23,200 new private-sector jobs announced by companies in the state in the year ended June 30, some 6,500 (about 28 percent) came from companies headquartered in places like Canada, South Korea and Japan, the top three, according to a news release from Gov. Brian Kemp‘s office.
Sept. 17, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Position Without Power?
Brian Robinson writes, Georgia’s last Democratic lieutenant governor, Mark Taylor of Albany, served two terms in that office. In his first term from 1999-2003 he wielded power over the state Senate, where his party still maintained a majority.
Sept. 17, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Metro Atlanta consumers grapple with higher prices on food, other goods
Amy Wenk reports, the price of coffee has jumped more than 20% from a year ago. Ground beef is up nearly 13%, and apples almost 10%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With prices up on many food items, Rachael Auld says she has to shop around. The Belvedere Park resident hunts for deals at different grocery stores, picks produce at farmers markets and uses a delivery service for pricier cuts of meat.
Sept. 17, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
‘Quality jobs in our community’: Hyundai supplier investing $50 million at Rincon facility
Latrice Williams reports that Sewon America is growing. The Hyundai supplier is expanding its operations at its Rincon facility where it manufactures electric vehicle body parts for Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, among others.
Sept. 17, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Cobb authority advances tax breaks for $140M Home Depot expansion
Isabelle Manders reports, in an effort to bring “thousands of workers” back into the office, The Home Depot is seeking help from the Development Authority of Cobb County to finance a major expansion and improvements across its three Cobb campuses. The authority signaled its willingness to consider the company’s request for $140 million in bonds by passing an inducement resolution Tuesday.
Sept. 17, 2025 Wesley Woods Foundation
Heroes, Saints & Legends to honor Nancy Gordy-Simms, Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker, Douglas R Hooker
Staff reports that Heroes, Saints & Legends honors extraordinary individuals who have shaped our community through a lifetime commitment to leadership, service and philanthropy. Save the date to join us on Thursday, September 18, 2025, for Heroes, Saints and Legends, where we will honor individuals who have made a significant impact on our wider community and state. This year’s honorees are Nancy Gordy-Simms, Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker and Douglas R. Hooker.
Sept. 17, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts
Maya Homan reports that St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services to one location, the hospital announced last week. The decision will affect the hospital’s labor and delivery unit as well as Clear Creek OBGYN, a separate center which provides reproductive care for patients at all stages of life.
Sept. 17, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
Piedmont Athens Regional plans $56 million upgrade on operating room services
Wayne Ford reports that Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center announced this week it has broken ground for a $56 million expansion and modernization of its operating room and surgical services. The expansion begins with the construction of two new operating rooms and a hybrid operating room, which will provide a unit for complex vascular surgery.
Sept. 17, 2025 WABE
City public-private partnership funds new Atlanta grocery store to replace former Walgreens location
DorMiya Vance reports, in Downtown Atlanta, on the corner of Peachtree Street, a new grocery store welcomes customers with a green and white sign that reads “Azalea Fresh Market.” Inside, shelves are stocked by employees as shoppers explore the aisles labeled with glowing white signs attached to bright orange poles.
Sept. 17, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
From symbolic to tangible. Columbus strengthens political ties Muscogee Nation
Brittany McGee reports, the City of Columbus is strengthening ties with the Muscogee Nation by providing the Native American tribe a permanent office in the new city hall complex. A delegation led by Muscogee Principal Chief David Hill visited Columbus on Monday to tour the office and celebrate its opening.
Sept. 17, 2025 The Brunswick News
Supreme Court declines to hear Confederate monument appeal
Terry Dickson reports that the Supreme Court of Georgia declined Tuesday to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that Brunswick could not be sued for the removal five years ago of a Confederate monument from Hanover Square. The affirmation of a Glynn County Superior Court judge’s decision in the second suit filed to have the statue restored likely lays the matter to rest.
Sept. 17, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Georgia higher ed board approves $50K Sonny Perdue pay bump
Ross Williams reports that University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue is getting a raise. The Board of Regents voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a $50,000 pay raise for the former Georgia governor and U.S. agriculture secretary, bringing Perdue’s pay up to $572,500.
Sept. 17, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
5 questions about Georgia’s growing governor’s race
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, the back-to-back campaign launches of former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan as a Democrat and Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have scrambled Georgia’s governor’s race — and left us with lots of questions. Both men have proven they can win statewide elections.
