Insurance Rates Drop

Insurers filed 41 rate cuts in Georgia this year, which lawmakers say affect more than 3.6 million policyholders and save them more than $500 million across auto, home, and business coverage.

State Farm has cut Georgia auto rates by more than 10% since late 2024, while Travelers lowered rates by 10.1% and Allstate by 5%.

House Speaker Jon Burns and state Rep. Matt Reeves credited changes driven by the House Blue-Ribbon Study Committee on Insurance Rates and the state’s 2025 tort reforms.

Consumer advocate Joel Larsgaard urged drivers to shop around for coverage, noting he recently secured better coverage while saving more than $1,000 a year.

  Atlanta Hosts G20 Diplomats

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host a two-day meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Midtown Atlanta today and Saturday.

The meeting at the Loews Atlanta Hotel marks the first time the city has hosted a summit-level event involving the G20, G7, or NATO. Peachtree Street will see intermittent closures.

The State Department said talks by the foreign ministers from the world’s leading economies will focus on international cooperation, open markets, and resilient supply chains.

The gathering serves as a lead-up to the G20 Leaders’ Summit hosted by President Trump on Dec. 14-15 at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida.

B-52s Get Hollywood Star

The B-52s received the 2,861st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, the latest recognition for the new wave band formed in 1976 in Athens.

The star, awarded in the recording category, sits in front of Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard. Fellow new wave band the Go-Go’s and comedian Fred Armisen were set to speak at the dedication.

Known for hits including Love Shack and Roam, the group has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, according to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

Athens’ minor league hockey team, the Rock Lobsters, takes its name from the band’s late-1970s song Rock Lobster.

A Note from Cole, CEO of The Flyover

Dear Reader,

Every year, auditors count how many copies America’s biggest newspapers actually put in people’s hands. The new numbers are brutal.

Of the 25 largest papers in the country, 24 shrank last year. Average decline: 12.5%. Nearly a quarter-million daily papers, gone in a single year. The Denver Post now prints about 24,000 copies a day. The Arizona Republic, 33,000. The Houston Chronicle, 35,000. The Dallas Morning News, under 40,000. These are metros of millions. And the steepest collapse in the country belonged to The Washington Post: down 21% in a single year to fewer than 88,000 print copies.

The industry will tell you it’s the internet. It’s a convenient story, because it means none of this is their fault.

Here’s the story they won’t tell: Americans didn’t stop caring about the news. They stopped trusting the people delivering it. Somewhere along the way, the papers stopped reporting what happened and started campaigning for what they wanted to happen—and their readers noticed. Trust in the media now sits at the lowest level ever recorded.

So no, that’s not an audience drifting away. That’s a jury coming back with a verdict.

And here’s the part the industry really doesn’t want to talk about: those readers didn’t give up on news. They went looking for someone who would just tell them the truth. Millions of them found their way to The Flyover publications—morning news publications built on one simple ideal:

We call things what they are.

We keep the spin out and trust you with the facts.

And The Flyover stays free.

It turns out that when you just give people the facts and trust them to think for themselves, people respond.

So today I’m asking: Will you help us continue? If news that plays it straight is something you want to see thrive, will you stand behind us?

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Will you make a generous donation to support The Flyover?

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What’s your favorite B-52s song?

1. Love Shack
2. Roam
3. Rock Lobster
4. Other

Yesterday’s Results:

How often do you forget to change your clocks back in the fall?

1. Never: 78%
2. Once in a while: 16%
3. Almost every year: 3%
4. Is that this weekend?: 3%

What does the B-52s’ name refer to?

Show me the answer