May 3, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Good morning! Early voting for the May 24 general primary started yesterday. Take advantage of the convenience, because until we have online drive-thru voting, early voting is as easy as it gets.
- New Jersey’s highest earner moved to Florida, and the entire New Jersey state budget was suddenly at risk. A cautionary tale.
- Many American cities have had it up to here with their tacky, ugly flags.
- The three Atlanta James Beard Foundation Awards finalists left the awards empty-handed.
- New Orleans chefs did better; Shaya really is that good.
- (Idea! Maybe the same weekend as the Falcons/Saints game, there could be an ATL/NOLA chef smackdown! I’ll volunteer to judge the Comprère Lapin/Kimball House cocktail competition.)
- Meanwhile in Atlanta, it was a taco fiasco in Candler Park.
- Gwinnett is [taking advantage of] great [interest rates]!
- Eleven buildings were damaged by the EF-1 tornado that hit the Warner Robins Air Force Base last month, and officials estimate the damage at more than $1.5 million.
- A home birth in America is not always such a great idea. Why is this #gapol-related? Because:
- “Medicine is not regulated by the federal government, so these changes would need to be made on the state level. Home birth midwives will lobby against them, fiercely, while the women who have suffered from home births gone wrong are often ashamed and less willing to speak up. But as long as we allow poorly trained laypeople with watered down credentials to perform home births, we are risking the health of mothers, and the lives of babies.”
- From Dacula to Hahira, which Georgia city names can you pronounce the correct right way?
- Mmmm, cream of mushroom soup. ‘Murica loves it!
- Rise Up! (But careful, because too much might bring you to your knees.)
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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They may have come away from The James Beard Awards without hardware, but the story of Staplehouse is one worthy of much praise….and patronage. My MBH and I plan to get down there very soon.
John, thanks for giving Staplehouse its props. The Unsukay/Giving Kitchen team is made up of incredible people who enacted their vision and what they’ve done is worthy of praise. If there isn’t a Beard category for community impact (and I don’t think there is), there should be one. (And also an award for pioneering quality cocktails in Cobb.)
And Chris Hall defended his Waffle House Smackdown title (ok, technically co-champions) at Charleston Wine+Food again this year.
I was not prepared for the gut punch of reading the history behind Staplehouse/The Giving Kitchen. Thanks for providing the link.
Question for the GP team: now that the vehicle for GeorgiaPol Radio™, “The Sully Show” on 640WGST, is no more (Rich is now going to be back full-time on the MHz wavelengths) what is the future of our aural Friday fix?
It is always easy to pick out the new weather/traffic people when they mispronounce the town names, Dacula being a perennial favorite with one that isn’t on the list also good to trip them up, Winder.
Locally one of the indicators that you ain’t from aroun’ heah are ya is the preference of Mountain View over Hog Mountain. Not a pronunciation issue of course so much as a more pleasant association. At least for newcomers who have no memory of the original Mountain View that the airport thankfully helped abolish.
Where is the Tony Nomination update?
Wealthy relocating: wonder how It worked out for Georgia with the professionals athletes playing for Georgia teams and declaring residency elsewhere ?
That’s fairly typical that pro athletes have their legal residents not in the state they play. Most players only spend 6 to 7 months working in the city they play a year, and most have a 2 year average of playing with the same team. If they have family, they will locate in an area that is stable for the children to go to school.
It’s likely irrelevant. Any games played in Georgia are taxed as income by Georgia.
Jock taxes are complicated…..Georgia must make a boat load out of high paid teams playing here and especially when the super stars come to town. My question was does GA chase the money as a few years ago it got real thorny.
http://taxfoundation.org/tax-topics/jock-taxes