Georgia Trend Daily – Nov. 10, 2025
Nov. 10, 2025 Capitol Beat News
State tax revenues rise in October
Ty Tagami reports that Georgia’s net tax collections rose by 6.9% last month compared to October of last year, accelerating ahead of percentage gains the prior two months, according to new state figures reported Friday. October net collections exceeded $2.7 billion. That was less than the nearly $3.3 billion in September, but it was more than the $2.5 billion in October 2024, according to the numbers from the Georgia Department of Revenue.
Nov. 10, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Dalton | Whitfield County: Small-Town Vibe with Global Ties
Kristen Soles McCrackin reports that Dalton is a city where tradition, diversity and innovation live side by side. Known as the Flooring Capital of the World and affectionately celebrated by locals as SoccerTown USA, the city – which is 53% Hispanic – is home to billion-dollar data centers, award-winning healthcare and a growing college that is helping shape the next generation of Georgia’s workforce.
Nov. 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mass cancellations hit Atlanta airport, shutdown causes uncertainty
Kelly Yamanouchi reports that Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is heading into a busy Monday for air travel after being hit by mass flight cancellations over the weekend. On top of flight cuts mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration and attributed to the government shutdown, unplanned cancellations hit hundreds more flights over the weekend because of staffing shortages of air traffic controllers and thunderstorms Saturday.
Nov. 10, 2025 Newnan Times-Herald
Coweta County housing market posts 7.5 percent jump in sales volume
Staff reports, mortgage rates have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, contributing to steady activity across Georgia’s housing market as the industry moves into the final months of the year. Statewide, sales volume is tracking slightly ahead of 2024, though total unit sales remain roughly 1,000 transactions behind year-to-date pace.
Nov. 10, 2025 Savannah Morning News
Hyundai raid aftermath hurts Korean businesses in Pooler
Destini Ambus and Jillian Magtoto report, when Daniel Lee first opened his own franchise of the national 92 Chicken chain in Pooler, Ga., this year, tables filled at least once during the week and several times on the weekends. But in September, 475 people, about 300 of whom were South Koreans, were detained and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Hyundai-LG plant near Savannah.
Nov. 10, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Jones County rescinds zoning ordinances around data centers due to legal issues
Lucinda Warnke reports that the Jones County Board of Commissioners rescinded a series of ordinances pertaining to data centers Tuesday night due to concerns that those laws may not have been passed legally. The ordinances were passed on Sept. 16 as a proactive measure due to data center projects popping up in a number of neighboring counties, officials said in September.
Nov. 10, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Residents irate after Columbia County planners OK proposed data center ordinance
Joe Hotchkiss reports that Columbia County residents on Thursday booed a decision by the county’s Planning Commission recommending approval of a proposed sweeping new set of ordinances to govern controversial data centers. Skeptical taxpayers shouted “Shame!” after learning from planning officials that the drafted ordinance would apply only to future data center proposals and not a local proposal now on many residents’ minds.
Nov. 10, 2025 The Current
McIntosh spends $491K, so far, to defend rezoning of Hogg Hummock
Mary Landers reports, McIntosh County has spent almost half a million dollars defending its 2023 rezoning of Hogg Hummock, a small neighborhood on Sapelo Island that’s traditionally been home to a Gullah Geechee community. Through open records requests, The Current GA gathered attorneys’ invoices and county purchase order summaries from October 2023 through August 2025.
Nov. 10, 2025 Georgia Recorder
The ballot is set for next month’s special Georgia House election in Cherokee County
Ross Williams reports, six candidates have stepped forward to fill a Cherokee County legislative seat that was left empty after the death of the district’s state representative last month. Rep. Mandi Ballinger, a Canton Republican, died in October after a long battle with cancer.
Nov. 10, 2025 GPB
Lawmakers Huddle: Georgia’s bipartisan effort to protect children from cyberbullying and AI threats
Donna Lowry reports on Senate Impact of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence on Children and Platform Privacy Protection Study Committee. The committee’s co-chairs, state Sens. Sally Harrell (D) of Atlanta and Shawn Still (R) of Johns Creek discuss what they are learning and the legislation that could come out of it.
Nov. 10, 2025 Capitol Beat News
In about face, Trump administration tells Georgia it will fully fund food program for the hungry
Ty Tagami reports, the federal government said Friday that it will comply with a judge’s order to issue full benefits for this month to its food assistance program for low-income households. In a letter to state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, Patrick A. Penn, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official who oversees the program, said the agency “will complete the processes necessary” to make funds available and comply with an order Thursday in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island.
Nov. 10, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If Georgia drops income tax, will sales taxes rise?
David Wickert reports that state legislators who want to eliminate Georgia’s income tax haven’t said exactly how they plan to replace the state’s largest revenue source. But a look at states that get by without a tax on individual income provides a clear answer: They rely far more than Georgia on sales taxes to pay their bills.
