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- Gwinnett County acts as a four-decade growth engine, outpacing national averages with notable population and job gains.
- One in four renter households in Metro Atlanta faced eviction filings, more than three times the national average, per Princeton University Eviction Lab.
- Many Atlanta-area office buildings traded under duress as tenants left and pandemic-era rents failed to cover mounting debt.
- Plaintiffs ask a judge to void Effingham County Industrial Development Authority deals with Octans Georgia, alleging public business occurred privately.
Sept. 22, 2026 WABE
Marlon Hyde reports that diesel in Georgia rose above $6.35 a gallon over the weekend, reaching a record high, according to motor group AAA. The skyrocketing prices are now putting pressure on food supply, transportation, retail prices — and Georgia farmers.
Sept. 22, 2026 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Jennifer McKee reports, Gwinnett County has spent the last four decades establishing itself as a growth engine, expanding at a pace that leaves national averages far behind. U.S. Census data reveals that between 2020 and 2025, Gwinnett’s population increased by 6% and jobs surged.
Sept. 22, 2026 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Zachary Hansen reports that many of the Atlanta area office buildings that have traded hands since the COVID-19 pandemic have done so under duress. Several building owners watched their tenants leave or payments on their debt balloon with rents unable to keep up after the 2020 pandemic upended the office market.
Sept. 22, 2026 Saporta Report
Gabi Hart reports that one in four renter households in Metro Atlanta faced an eviction filing last year, a rate more than three times the national average. Researchers from Princeton University’s Eviction Lab came to The Atlanta History Center on September 10th to present findings on the region’s eviction crisis and discuss potential solutions with city officials, housing advocates, business leaders and other community stakeholders.
Sept. 22, 2026 Savannah Morning News
Latrice Williams reports, a new residential neighborhood in Chatham County near Guyton city limits and an industrial project in Effingham County could bring additional housing, jobs and investment while adding to the area’s ongoing growth. If approved, the new subdivision is expected to see more than 500 units once fully built and the warehouse proposed for Old River Road totals one million square feet.
Sept. 22, 2026 The Current
Maggie Lee reports, a group of plaintiffs is asking a judge to declare that the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority unfairly did public business in private and to throw out the agency’s deals with OpenAI affiliate Octans Georgia for a data center near Rincon.
Sept. 22, 2026 Augusta Chronicle
Joe Hotchkiss reports that two U.S. senators are reaching across the aisle to help prevent Fort Gordon’s hospital from reducing services to Augusta-area soldiers, veterans and military families. U.S. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina have introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to keep inpatient services at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center.
Sept. 22, 2026 Savannah Morning News
Vanessa Johns reports that former Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is criticizing President Donald Trump over rising fuel prices after she said she paid nearly $234 to fill her boat at a Lake Lanier marina. Greene, who represented Georgia’s 14th Congressional District before resigning from Congress in January, posted about the fuel purchase on X, formerly Twitter, over the weekend.
Sept. 22, 2026 State Affairs
Tammy Joyner reports that Macon resident Keisha Walton lost her 25-year-old son, Kemontre Braswell, in May when he was hit by a driver while crossing Highway 247 in south Macon. Atlantan Satya Bhan woke up in the emergency room in 2023 with a brain bleed and facial fractures after a hit-and-run driver plowed through a crosswalk.
Sept. 22, 2026 Georgia Recorder
Maya Homan reports, the fate of a Georgia law that will make the district attorney’s seat and other roles nonpartisan in five metro Atlanta counties rests in the hands of a Fulton County judge after two district attorneys filed lawsuits challenging the measure. Lawyers for the state of Georgia are urging a Fulton County judge to dismiss one of the challenges.
Sept. 22, 2026 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein reports that Georgia voters still have weeks to decide whether their next governor will be Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms or Republican Rick Jackson. But one outcome is already clear. For the first time since Democrat Roy Barnes’ 2002 defeat, Georgia’s next governor will be rooted in metro Atlanta.
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