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.)