April 8, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Sundi Rose reports that automaker Stellantis announced in a letter to its employees on Thursday that they are temporarily laying off 900 U.S. workers and halting operations at plants in other countries in response to new 25% tariffs on imported vehicles enacted by President Donald Trump. Stellantis participates in a strategic partnership with Archer Aviation, an aerospace manufacturer in Covington.
April 8, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Sucheta Rawal reports, one of the best ways to learn about international cuisine is knowing someone from another country. Just let him or her pick the place, order their favorite dishes, and possibly even converse with the staff in their native language.
April 8, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Emma Hurt reports that Delta Air Lines is opening a new Concourse D Sky Club at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday. The 24,000-square-foot club boasts more than 500 seats, the most of the airline’s eight Atlanta lounges.
April 8, 2025 GPB
Benjamin Payne reports that shrimp farmers in Coastal Georgia are welcoming new tariffs announced last week by the Trump administration on imported shrimp, seeing them as a lifeline for an industry struggling to compete with foreign producers. Imported shrimp, which account for roughly 95% of all shrimp eaten in the U.S., will be subject to tariffs ranging from 10% on imports from Ecuador and Argentina to as high as 46% on shrimp from Vietnam.
April 8, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Sundi Rose reports, the video-sharing app has become a cornerstone for businesses across the United States, and Georgia is no exception. According to a TikTok impact report conducted by Oxford Economics, 300,000 businesses in the state are actively using the platform, and 210,000 jobs benefit from TikTok-related activities.
April 8, 2025 WABE
Molly Samuel reports that public library officials in Georgia are bracing for how federal cuts could impact local libraries after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services in March. The loss of funding from the federal agency would affect programs that serve public libraries across Georgia, including the statewide summer reading program; the GALILEO system that provides online access to journals, books and other publications; the PINES network that gives library users access to material at other Georgia library systems; and the Georgia Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.
April 8, 2025 Fresh Take Georgia
Zaire Breedlove, Juliane Balog and Gabby Miller report, the 2025 General Assembly session wrapped up the first week of April with the state Senate and House working non-stop on Sine Die until midnight. Dozens of bills are now headed to Governor Brian Kemp’s desk for him to sign or veto.
April 8, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Myracle Lewis reports, after days of negotiation, the Georgia House and Senate reached a resolution on the state’s fiscal year 2026 budget last week, in turn reaching an agreement on how much funding Georgia will give a new private school voucher program. Both legislative chambers previously disagreed on the financial allocations for the Georgia Promise Scholarship, which the Georgia Assembly created last year.
April 8, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Ty Tagami reports that Georgia lawmakers approved legislation late Friday that would give innocent people who were convicted and sent to prison money for the time they spent behind bars, while also allowing defendants to recover legal costs when their prosecutor is disqualified and the case against them is dismissed.
April 8, 2025 The Brunswick News
Hank Rowland reports that Brunswick Stew now awaits the signature of the governor to become Georgia’s official stew, but a bill pushed by a Savannah Republican that would have required food preparers to divulge the origin of their shrimp will remain in limbo this year. Two bills introduced by state Rep. Rick Townsend this year — House bills 233 and 235 — made it through the legislature before the General Assembly adjourned the 40-day lawmaking session Friday.
April 8, 2025 State Affairs
Beau Evans reports that the dust has settled on the 2025 legislative session. Nearly three months of bill wrangling brought Gov. Brian Kemp a series of political wins to kick off his penultimate year in office — and left potential gubernatorial successors primed for 2026 election runs.
April 8, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Wall Street reeled from another chaotic sell-off over fears of a deepening trade war, Georgia Republicans in Washington were quick to defend President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But back home, state GOP leaders were noticeably more cautious. Gov. Brian Kemp sidestepped a direct answer on the fallout.
