Georgia Trend Daily – Dec. 4, 2025
Dec. 4, 2025 GPB
Georgia adds 11 new sites to state register of historic places
Staff reports, the state of Georgia adds 11 new listings to the Georgia Register of Historic Places, continuing to highlight the state’s share of historic resources. The Georgia National Register Review Board approved of the listings at an October meeting.
Dec. 4, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Shedding Light on the Darkness
Ben Young writes, Georgia will start next year in a public spotlight that trumpets our success. We have a lot to be proud of, and the attention from the FIFA World Cup represents an opportunity to put our very best on display.
Dec. 4, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Two centennials, one story: Delta and the Atlanta airport
Emma Hurt reports that today, as both Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Delta celebrate their respective centennials, it’s impossible to tell the story of one without the other. They are landlord and primary tenant. Construction partners. The city’s largest private employer. Some would say family members.
Dec. 4, 2025 Macon Melody
Innovation dashboard fills in gaps for Middle Ga. entrepreneurs
Casey Choung reports that a new AI-powered tool will “connect the dots” between business resources and Middle Georgia entrepreneurs, building on an existing dashboard for developing the region’s network of businesses. Macon’s Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Dashboard received a $40,000 grant in September from the Partnership for Innovation, an innovation lab out of Georgia Tech.
Dec. 4, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Honorees announced for 41st annual Tribute to Women of Achievement
Staff reports that LiveSafe Resources, a Cobb-based domestic violence shelter, has announced the list of honorees for their 41st annual Tribute to Women of Achievement. Based in Marietta, LiveSafe provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, counseling, legal advocacy and other services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Dec. 4, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
The costs of crypto mining in Georgia. Will it be regulated along with new data center rules?
Kala Hunter reports, with great attention paid to Georgia data centers and their impacts on the environment and local communities, another type of major industrial facility is racking up lots of energy consumption — enough to put Georgia second in the country, according to one report. Georgia is now home to more than a dozen crypto mining facilities, and while data centers have become a major focus for Georgia residents and politicians, crypto mines have used up significant amounts of energy with less scrutiny.
Dec. 4, 2025 Savannah Morning News
What must Savannahians earn annually to live comfortably?
Staff reports that the travel and credit card rewards program website, UpgradedPoints, released its 2025 study on how much Americans need to earn to live comfortably. While regions vary dramatically, the benchmark across all 50 states is more than $106,000 for a single adult.
Dec. 4, 2025 Albany Herald
Albany, Dougherty leaders celebrate LMC Ag’s 25 years in business
Lucille Lannigan reports that Albany-Dougherty County leaders gathered Monday to celebrate a manufacturing mainstay that has helped shape the region’s agricultural economy for a quarter-century. The Albany-Dougherty Economic Development Commission, in partnership with the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce and the Albany City Commission, held a special proclamation ceremony honoring LMC Ag for its 25th anniversary in business in Albany.
Dec. 4, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Small delay: Augusta Planning Commission postpones tiny-house decision
Joe Hotchkiss reports that a developer wanting to build small homes in south Augusta is experiencing a small setback. The Augusta Planning Commission on Monday voted to postpone action on Sadé Kong’s rezoning request to build five one- and two-story houses, each between 200 and 400 square feet, and a similarly sized separate office.
Dec. 4, 2025 Gainesville Times
Update: How Cornelia voted on proposed Ga. 365 project that called for possible data center
Jeff Gill reports that a proposed 284-acre, mixed-use development featuring a possible data center has been rejected by the Cornelia City Commission. Oakwood-based The Cook & Company was seeking to build the $300 million development at 1900 Level Grove Road off Ga. 365.
Dec. 4, 2025 The Brunswick News
Glynn Environmental Coalition celebrates 35 years, plans fundraiser
Michael Hall reports that in 1990, the Glynn Environmental Coalition started with a simple purpose: root out the cause of pollution in the Golden Isles and create an action plan to address it. Thirty-five years later the organization is as active as ever and continues to advocate for environmental causes and inform the community about pollution cleanup efforts.
Dec. 4, 2025 Georgia Recorder
CDC vaccine panel to review hepatitis B, other childhood vaccines, at December meeting
Maya Homan reports that a key advisory panel that oversees nationwide vaccine recommendations may vote to restrict access to hepatitis B immunizations for newborns and reconsider recommendations for a wide variety of other childhood vaccines when it is scheduled to meet this week at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is charged with setting national guidelines around which people should be vaccinated against a plethora of preventable diseases and when those vaccines should be administered.
Dec. 4, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Local GOP sees ‘danger’ in a chaotic race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, the Republican field to succeed the suddenly resigning U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is expected to be crowded and unpredictable. But local GOP leaders are already sounding alarms about what a wide-open special election could mean.
