Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 14

Happy Pi Day! And to think we thought that was yesterday. Many thanks to Nathan for holding down Tuesday morning last week while I was on vacation.

• We already know that Daylight Savings Time is the worst. Why continue doing this to ourselves? Why are we clock masochists? (Y’all, I’m so tired.)
• 54% of Georgia births are paid for by Medicaid.
• 5 of the 18 CD6 candidates participated in a candidate’s forum in Roswell last week.
• Atlanta, one of the leading cities in the nation for STDs, is apparently also home to a robust orgy economy.
• Pilgrim’s Pride, which has chicken processing facilities in Georgia, was sued in Florida for dumping millions of gallons of wastewater in the Suwanee river over the past five years.
• Georgia is one of many states eliminating incentives for electric cars.
• It will shock approximately no one to learn that Atlanta streetcar ridership is below projections. According to a recent report, problems include the facts that the streetcar stops too frequently, it is often stuck behind cars, and it’s not actually operated by a transit agency.
• Next month, Arkansas will to execute 8 inmates in ten days. They’re cramming this in because their midazolam stockpile expires at the end of April. So.
• “Angry” parents of transgender children met with Betsy DeVos.
• A passel of motivated 17-year-olds in Wisconsin kind of voted illegally. It’s like a bad B-plot on “That ’70s Show.”
• Was Jane Austen poisoned?
  • Related: If you are a Kiera Knightly kind of P&P devotee, bless your heart. Colin Firth 4EVAH.
• We love TV time-travel. (I loved Quantum Leap and sometimes when my iPhone is glitchy I tap it real hard, curse at it, and call it “Ziggy.”)
• R.E.M.’s Out of Time was released 26 years ago this past Sunday. We are all old.

Here’s what’s on the Senate floor today:

• HB 58 – Motor vehicles; reference date to federal regulations regarding the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles and carriers; update (PUB SAF-7^th) Rogers-10^th
• HB 86 – Domestic relations; definition of sexual abuse; expand (JUDY-45^th) Oliver-82^nd
• HB 157 – Medical advertising; certain certifying organizations; revise certain criteria (H&HS-45^th) Kelley- 16^th
• HB 174 – Insurance; insurer’s medium of payment of policy or contractual obligations; expand (I&L-14^th) Lumsden – 12^th
• HB 265 – Income tax; credit for establishing or relocating quality jobs; revise provisions (Substitute) (FIN-49^th) Efstration-104^th