March 21, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 21
Good morning! It’s election day in many parts of Georgia, including Cobb County, where voters will determine if there will be another E-SPLOST.
(Fun fact! It’s not pronounced “SPLOSH!” Know it, live it, stitch it on a pillow. Please!)
- Savannah and Atlanta are among Southern Living’s best cities in the South (Number 1? Charleston.)
- Columbus resident Lowry Reid has delivered Meals on Wheels for forty years.
- From blight to ballfields in Bibb.
- Germany has something to say about criticism of their trade surplus with the U.S. (Hmmm, Germany, aren’t they doing some major economic development stuff in Georgia?)
- A high court win in the Georgia Supreme Court for iHeartMedia.
- Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill is on professional probation.
- Doraville victorious against $tripper$.
- David Rockefeller died yesterday at the age of 101. As a child, he roller-skated down Fifth Avenue in NYC.
- Why does Trump hate cities?
- Meanwhile, he also is no fan of law enforcement agencies that didn’t help with federal immigration roundups.
- U2’s The Joshua Tree is 30 years old, and it still speaks to a divided America. (Yes, you’re old.)
- Sew many Monopoly players (myself included) are #teamthimble.
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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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Don Trump-un has installed ‘political appointees in every cabinet agency and tasked them with keeping tabs on the secretaries’ fealty to the president’.
As Dear Leader has previously noted, his people are most loyal but sadly some do not accept 5th Avenue shootings without training and when people stray, the brand becomes commodity, so prepare for the coming of watchers for the watchers. So loyal.
While passing all types of laws for our good, legislators are pretty opposed to tightening their reigns.
Work 6 years for $38k yr. and get $9k yr. at 60 in OK.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/attorney-oklahoma-state-senator-plans-resign-46268195
“The real story that Congress, the FBI and all others should be looking into is the leaking of Classified Information. Must find leaker now!”
Who will be speaking truth to crazy today?
We have two counties in Georgia (Dekalb and Clayton) that don’t fully cooperate with ICE.
http://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt–politics/ice-clayton-dekalb-sheriff-officials-limiting-cooperation/v4qXcFql5GTK4CW3wgbJEK/
Old Terri, is when you have to explain to the young twenty somethings in your office who Chuck Berry was and why he mattered. One was ‘certain’ Johnny B. Goode was written just for ‘Back to the Future’. Seriously.
I blame their parents for their lack of education.
Did you groan when he made the inevitable Marvin Berry joke?
Warner Robbins passes Drone Ordinance….
“The council would ordinarily have held a first reading of the ordinance and voted at the next meeting, but Thomas asked that the first reading be waived. He said the General Assembly is considering a bill that would prohibit cities from restricting drones, and if the council did not approve an ordinance by April 1, it would not be able to do so under the state law.”
Nothing like rushed politics.
http://www.macon.com/news/local/article139713138.html
I see your point – but maybe if the Legislature did a better job of staying out of municipal policy, Warner Robbins wouldn’t have felt the need to rush. It’s easy enough for them to amend the ordinance down the road – I always remind people that while ordinances must be thoughtfully considered, they’re not the Code of Hammurabi – but once the Legislature acts, you can’t do anything at the local level.
Automation. Better technology. Coal jobs were dying even at the height of production.
https://www.axios.com/draft-coal-stuff-2293205721.html
Last lines of article; “Wyoming’s surface mines employ far fewer people than West Virginia but produce four times as much coal. Any coal revival would mean putting autonomous trucks to work in Wyoming — rather than miners in West Virginia.”
The positive is he is getting the government out of the way and letting high tech do its thing, whatever the consequences. Obama made a goal of govt hastening the premature death of an industry while mis-spending billions propping up others. (Govt research good, govt venture funding, bad).
“Whatever the consequences” – seriously? How does that jibe with his promise to reopen coal mines and bring jobs back to miners?
Consequences, high tech might eliminate a lot of dirty jobs and clean up some streams, ok.
Meanwhile, Trump is unraveling some Obama multi-thousand page rules that a lot of the elected and workers see as overkill.
I think coal is a nasty business but balancing overkill and tax subsidies is tricky business in supplying us energy.
PS Strip mining of any kind is really ugly. I see it in South GA. At least make them restore the ground.
Restoring land would require a mandate (state or fed) to force a private land owner to do so and would be regulated. Just saying.
Regulation is a good thing. Just saying.
Seeking balance.
High Tech does it’s thing regardless of who is in the White House. Did you see the productivity of tons mined and worker involved charts? Hiring started slowing down well before the 21st century even started. Letting coal companies dump into streams is not going to stop technology or automation. If the reg had stayed in place, mining would have developed tech to solved their waste issues. What removing regs will do is increase profits to CEO and the companies. Mining firms are going to automate even more and not replace workers lost to retirement or who leave the industry. Automation doesn’t have health issues related to coal mining. Automation costs less in overall liability and worker safety. The industry and Trump are giving hope back to people who already lost hope many times before, and it will end in losing hope again.
I prefer they die a natural death.