March 6, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Kala Hunter and Margaret Walker report, testimonies from Georgia Power’s Integrated Resource Plan hearings between 2022 and 2023 reveal two big problems with getting Georgia Power to a cleaner grid. When Georgia Power presented its energy plan in 2022, meant to help guide the company for the next two decades, fossil fuels played a noticeable role.
March 6, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Ben Young writes, recent support for ending homelessness in Georgia, such as Atlanta’s $50 million Homeless Opportunity Bond and Gov. Brian Kemp’s pledge of $62 million to address housing insecurity, is encouraging, touching a subject dear to my heart – homeless kids. In 2024, nearly 150,000 children experienced homelessness on a single night in the United States.
March 6, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Zachary Hansen reports that raw materials used to build complex structures like houses, skyscrapers or cars often come from across the globe and combine to form an international supply chain optimized to reduce costs. Georgia builders and manufacturers are bracing for impact not only from the trade war, but tariffs to come.
March 6, 2025 Rome News-Tribune
Mo Burge reports that a portion of the city of Cave Spring could be designated as a historic district, opening the door to possible funding to preserve some residential and commercial structures. City Council member Dennis Shoaf brought the idea to other council members during a work session Monday.
March 6, 2025 Milledgeville Union-Recorder
Billy Hobbs reports that Sibley Place and the Daniel industrial sites are drawing interest from prospective companies in Baldwin County. “The majority of our activity this month has been duplicated on Sibley and the Daniel site,” according to Jonathan Jackson, executive director of The Development Authority of Milledgeville and Baldwin County.
March 6, 2025 WABE
Stephannie Stokes reports that a Republican-led group of lawmakers is looking to limit the power of big, corporate landlords in Georgia’s housing market. The effort is significant in a state legislature that typically favors private property rights and speaks to the unprecedented growth of these investment companies in the state since the foreclosure crisis.
March 6, 2025 Fox 5 Atlanta
Christopher King reports that a bill working its way through the Georgia General Assembly would ban cellphones in the state. It expands upon an idea that some school districts are already doing.
March 6, 2025 Marietta Daily Journal
Annie Mayne reports that a former Due West Elementary School teacher who was fired for reading a book that challenges gender norms to students is trying to appeal the ruling of a Cobb Superior Court judge who upheld her termination. Katie Rinderle filed the discretionary application for appeal of Judge Kimberly Childs’ January decision to the Georgia Court of Appeals Monday.
March 6, 2025 Augusta Chronicle, Savannah Morning News
Miguel Legoas reports that bad weather and trends don’t last forever, but PFAS seemingly do. These divisive “forever chemicals” are back under a spotlight as new legislation is introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives to shield some who use them.
March 6, 2025 State Affairs
Beau Evans reports that state lawmakers are set to meet Thursday to settle the fates of hundreds of bills in the Georgia General Assembly in an annual deadline called “Crossover Day,” meaning they must pass out of the Senate or House to remain alive in the 2025 legislative session. Still undecided are measures expanding access to medical marijuana, ownership of Confederate statues and bans on “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies in Georgia schools.
March 6, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that legislation asking Georgia voters whether to legalize online sports betting in Georgia cleared a committee in the state House of Representatives Wednesday. Because it’s a constitutional amendment, House Resolution 450 would require a two-thirds majority to pass the full House if it reaches the floor.
March 6, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Jill Nolin, Ross Williams and Stanley Dunlap report that income tax breaks and polarizing issues like a ban on DEI in schools and a proposed statue of controversial jurist Clarence Thomas are among the bills poised for action Thursday. But there are many other closely watched measures – like sports betting and a plan to compensate those who have been wrongfully convicted – that were left hanging in the House as legislative crunch time descends on the state Capitol.
March 6, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that legislation that would require installers of solar panels on property leased from a landowner to return the land to its natural state cleared a Georgia House committee Wednesday. But a second bill pertaining to solar panels installed in communities governed by homeowners’ associations ran into pushback from members of the House Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications Committee.
March 6, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, it’s not a day when dreams come true, it is a day that they can die. Many of the bills will crossover today from one chamber to the other.