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July 7, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com
Trevor Williams reports that a South Korean electric battery recycler is the latest clean-energy firm pulling back on investment plans for Georgia amid flagging demand for electric vehicles and the impending elimination of federal EV subsidies. SungEel Recycling Park Georgia LLC had planned to spend $37 million and hire more than 100 people at a facility in Toccoa.
July 7, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Jerry Grillo reports, Ben Gillis will never forget the chilling phone call from his father, Hugh, the morning after Hurricane Helene blasted Georgia in September 2024. “He simply said, ‘Ben, it’s all gone.’ And those words hit a lot harder than the hurricane’s 100 mile-an-hour winds,” says Gillis, whose family lost 60% of the timber on their 15,000 acres in Soperton in one night of devastation.
July 7, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Allison Mawn reports that the Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force.
July 7, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports, whether the quick rise of data centers in Georgia will ultimately prove good or bad for the state’s economy is a hotly debated topic this summer. Georgia boasts the fastest growing data center market in the nation, behind only Virginia – the world’s largest data center market – in volume.
July 7, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Jack Lindner reports, in a Thursday letter to Austell residents, Mayor Ollie Clemons defended the city’s proposed 158% property tax increase, saying “it’s time we face our challenges head-on.” The Austell City Council is weighing a proposal to increase the city’s millage rate by five mills, from 3.25 mills to 8.25 mills.
July 7, 2025 WABE
Rahul Bali reports, more than 60% of this year’s one-time state income tax rebates have been sent out, according to the Georgia Department of Revenue. Individual tax filers are receiving $250, head of household filers $375 and married joint filers $500.
July 7, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
Staff reports that VT Industries announced that Ryan Clausen and Aaron Clausen have been named co-presidents, responsible for the company’s operating units across North America and all corporate functions. The company’s three divisions serve customers from 15 facilities in the U.S. and Canada, including its VTI of Georgia countertop manufacturing facility on Redmond Circle in Rome.
July 7, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
Wayne Ford reports that Firefly Trail Inc. announced Friday that a second federal and state grant has been awarded that will help finance the paved trail through a section of unincorporated Oglethorpe County. The new $2.9 million grant will assist in the construction of a 4.5 mile section from Maxeys to the Greene County line.
July 7, 2025 The Current
Tyler Davis reports, just because you can’t see them when you pull onto the roadway, doesn’t mean you’re safe. Drones operated by Bryan County Sheriff’s Office are watching and looking for traffic violations.
July 7, 2025 State Affairs
Devyn Woodward reports that Saad Bhamla had big plans. In 2022, the professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology launched a first-of-its-kind program to help high school students and teachers create scientific tools out of everyday objects.
July 7, 2025 The Brunswick News
Hank Rowland reports that U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-1, an announced candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2026, is giving up his chairmanship of a House subcommittee. “I am stepping down as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health,” Carter wrote in a letter earlier this week to U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
July 7, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Amber Roldan reports that two Georgia Democrats are facing off to secure the party’s nomination for the District 3 seat on Georgia’s Public Service Commission. Keisha Sean Waites, a former state representative and Atlanta City Councilwoman, is competing against Peter Hubbard, a clean energy advocate, on the July 15 ballot. The runoff election comes after last month’s statewide special primary where no candidate received 50% of the vote, although Waites came close.
July 7, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Ty Tagami reports, it started harmlessly enough, with kids using artificial intelligence to cheat on their writing assignments, but the technology has become a palpable threat to society as lawyers and others in the justice system have conducted novel experiments with it and even clearly misused it.
July 7, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report that the embattled New Georgia Project is downsizing again, raising questions about whether the left-leaning political organization founded by two-time gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will play a role in politics in next year’s midterm elections. The organization’s leaders sent notices cutting an unspecified number of employees on July 3, saying the “deeply painful decision follows an extensive and honest evaluation of the financial, operational, and structural challenges we have faced.”
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