Good morning, and welcome to a quickly compiled version of the Morning Reads. It’s National Gardening Day. My seedlings have been started (though, admittedly, I’m still adding like the addict I am), and I am not yet ready to put things in the ground, so this is kind of a bust of a gardening day
This week’s Courier Herald column: Good news was delivered to my inbox this week, which will be appreciated by students and their parents across the state. For the third time in five years, the University System of Georgia will freeze tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. While holding the line on the cost
Today’s must-read story: this completely bonkers account of the bonkers shenanigans involving the bonkers high school football program at Valdosta High School. If you read the phrase, “Georgia High School Association,” realize that you’re reading it in the New York Times, then you either involuntarily hold your breath or roll your eyes – enjoy! Governor
Monday after the Masters is kinda like the day after Christmas. All the hype, all the prep, and then it’s over. MLB’s move out of Georgia is the latest in a line of political boycotts Georgia becomes third state to shut down Johnson & Johnson vaccine site How bitter Korean rivals settled a rift that
Peaches “No, Georgia’s voting laws are not like Colorado’s” Georgia boycott postponed until meeting with corporate executives It was a group decision at the Masters. The Lawyer Behind Georgia’s New Anti-Voting Law Duncan blames Guiliani. Savannah Mayor is unsure if he’ll enforce the whole shebang. We’re back on the deficient bridge conversation. Fani Willis isn’t
Happy Wednesday! It’s the first full week of April, so y’all all know there’s this little ol’ tournamint happening over in my hometown. Today is Wednesday, which is traditionally the Par 3 Contest, but not today. That was well worth documenting in today’s Reads, but here’s to hoping for its return next year. Today is
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgia is once again the epicenter of national politics. The vehicle of choice this time is a bill to codify changes to Georgia’s voting laws. An objective observer would find it important to delineate the word “codify” because many of the procedures used during the 2020 elections were done outside
Hello there! It’s probably best that I was delayed in writing this post this morning since had I not waited, I could not share this breaking #gapol news: Scorpion Stings Frog! State Representative Erick Allen is running for Lieutenant Governor! I admit, I’m awfully fond of my fellow Cobb County representative. You know who else
Hoping everyone’s Easter was bright and colorful and you were able to spend the day with the people you love. Social media was ablaze with what felt like a massive do-over from the year we lost. Georgia Lawmakers demand removal of Coca-Cola drinks In latest boycott over voting law Georgia spa-shooting victim is mourned by
The Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that Florida failed to show that additional water flow from Georgia would save its struggling oyster industry, thus ending one of the more infamous disputes in the Water Wars saga that has been raging since the 1990s. The opinion, written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, notes that Florida did
