Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 5, 2025

Aug. 5, 2025 WABE

Emily Jones reports that hundreds of Georgia households can get free rooftop solar energy through a program that launched Monday. Georgia BRIGHT, a statewide initiative to deliver communities affordable solar energy and economic opportunity, will offer rooftop solar arrays at no cost to Georgia households earning 80% of their area’s median income.

Aug. 5, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!

Patty Rasmussen reports, global trade made news in Georgia long before retaliatory tariffs started grabbing headlines. Once again, Georgia businesses found new opportunities in global markets, with exports surpassing $53.1 billion in 2024, outperforming the national average for the fourth year.

Aug. 5, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Zachary Hansen reports that Atlanta area continues to have a glut of unused office space, but the companies looking for the cream of the workspace crop are increasingly finding limited choices. It’s turned high-end office districts like Midtown or along the Beltline into a fast-paced game of musical chairs where companies are vying for a select handful of open spaces.

Aug. 5, 2025 GlobalAtlanta.com

Trevor Williams reports, amid the trade skirmishes of President Donald Trump‘s 2.0 term, one Caribbean economy has been noticeably absent from the headlines: the Dominican Republic. That suits the country of 11 million just fine.

Aug. 5, 2025 Albany Herald

Lucille Lannigan reports that the parking lots of Dawson’s Piggly Wiggly and Public Safety Complex had a special visitor during the last week in July – a mobile health care clinic, making its way around southwest Georgia. The Plan A Health Clinic provides health care on wheels, offering primary care services including blood pressure and blood sugar checks or reproductive health services like pap smears, mammogram referrals and STI screenings.

Aug. 5, 2025 The Brunswick News

Gordon Jackson reports that an amendment to the Coast Guard Beach project will be considered at Thursday’s Glynn County Commission meeting. The scope of work will be changed with the removal of the planned entrance gate to the parking area, lighting at the parking area and electric vehicle charging stations.

Aug. 5, 2025 Gwinnett Daily Post

Nate McCullough reports in 2014, Gwinnett County Public Schools won its second Broad Prize for Urban Education. The prestigious honor, awarded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, recognized public school systems which had made great strides in improving the scholastic performance of low-income and minority students.

Aug. 5, 2025 New York Times

Michael Gold reports that George Santos, the disgraced former congressman and notorious fabulist who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after being expelled from the House, has been in federal prison for 11 days on a sentence of more than seven years. On Monday, one of his former colleagues began a formal effort to get him out.

Aug. 5, 2025 WSB Radio

Staff reports that Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is questioning her place in the Republican party. During an interview with the Daily Mail, Greene says, “I don’t know if the Republican party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to Republican party as much anymore.”

Aug. 5, 2025 State Affairs

Beau Evans reports, being a state lawmaker involves much more than debating bills and casting votes. Each year, the 236 members of the Georgia General Assembly wade through hundreds of bills, many of which contain dozens of pages of dense legalese.

Aug. 5, 2025 Georgia Recorder

Maya Homan reports that Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has filed a brief in support of a lawsuit against Savannah Mayor Van Johnson over a local ordinance aimed at penalizing gun owners who leave firearms in unlocked cars, escalating an ongoing feud between Georgia’s top prosecutor and the mayor of the state’s oldest city.

Aug. 5, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, if he wins the governor’s race next year, state Sen. Jason Esteves wouldn’t just become Georgia’s first Black governor. He’d be the first Latino governor, too. His campaign is getting help from a national Latino group as he battles former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and others in Georgia’s Democratic primary.