April 18, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 18
Today is Tax Day, and it’s also Election Day for CD6.
Yesterday, a stretch of I-20 just east of Atlanta buckled, and I-85 isn’t set to reopen until June 15.
They say things come in threes, is what I’m getting at.
- The Trump budget may not be kind to the future of Atlanta transit.
- It will also be bad for Georgia’s rural lawyer shortage.
- Savannah State University announced a move from Division I to Division II athletics.
- Dublin is home to a new MLK monument.
- High schoolers at Macon’s Hutchings College and Career Academy learn about haute cuisine at the school’s new Compass Rose Cafe.
- One town in Indiana has managed to preserve its stellar architectural heritage without any special zoning or preservation laws.
- Alex Jones isn’t actually a lying conspiracy theorist. He’s a performance artist!
- Justice Neil Gorsuch had his first day on the bench.
- The state of Arkansas is having a hard time killing people.
- Another reason why parents should cut the financial cord with their adult children.
- In what could be the plot from a Carl Hiassen novel, the ashes of a renowned fishing guide were stolen from a pickup truck in Florida.
- It’s the nine-minute workout that actually works.
- Running for office when you’re in the social media generation.
- Meanwhile, Xers everywhere roll their eyes at the line that Millennials are “America’s political heavyweights,” but only for a second, since we have work to do.
- A group of lawyers sued Buzzfeed and you won’t believe what happened next!
About Author
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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6th district prediction
Ossoff 43
Handel 21
Gray 16
Moody 12
Hill 5
Everyone else 3
I see there’s a brief bio of Teri following her MRs. Is that a new feature or am I just slow to notice?
Not a new feature for the site, but one that I just figured out. I added it when I posted t about Bob Gray and the PTA.
Scientists discover massive sulfur-eating hell-clams in the Philippines.
EEEEEEWWW. That’s nasty looking!
WARNING. Do NOT click this link if you are in the middle of eating breakfast (or really any thing at all).
Learn from my mistakes.
Nitpicking: quite a few broken or paywall links this morning…please fix.
Fixed the first two links, thanks for pointing that out! With regards to paywalls, I can’t help you there. I do subscribe to the AJC, the NYT, and the WSJ, and my spouse subscribes to the Daily Report, so I have easy access to those publications online – but all of them also offer a handful of free articles each month, so if you find that you are reaching your limit of freebies, you may want to consider subscribing.
The first link “The Trump budget may not be kind to the future of Atlanta transit” is broken. Repeating an earlier comment of mine: someone needs to propose a “grand bargain” where the urban Democrats get their rail funding and the suburban Republicans get their highways. 35 years of urbanites trying to impose their agenda on the suburbanites and vice versa hasn’t worked. And yes, the fact that the (now in Dunwoody!) “Atlanta” Journal-Constitution (every bit the carpetbaggers as the Cobb County Braves, not that they will admit it, making them hypopcrites) always talking about transit ad nauseum to the exclusion of reporting the obvious fact that Atlanta needs highways similar to the double decker things you see in Texas is precisely part of the problem. They are continually harassing the suburban GOPers who do not even represent much of the inside the I-285 population about their stances on MARTA but never talk to the crew led by Stacey Abrams about how the increasingly black and brown denizens of Gwinnett, Cobb and Cherokee need highways too, as their areas aren’t dense and compact enough geographically for any practical mass transit plan to make sense (unless the goal of the urbanists is to force them out of Gwinnett and Cherokee and back inside 285 in the first place).
I’m willing to guess based on your assessments that you’re a strong supporter of finding the most efficient way to use tax dollars. Promoting density is the most efficient way to allocate transportation capital. Building a double-decker Katy Freeway out to Suwanee/Canton/Milton isn’t an efficient use of capital, subsidizes sprawl, and only exacerbates the long-term problem.
Promoting transit isn’t some new world order theory, its the most efficient way to spend money in the goal of alleviating congestion and allocating transportation capital.
I’ll accept a Katy Freeway-style decked highway here if it would take me to a Whataburger and/or Ninfas.
I just want to cross Cheshire Bridge Rd in under 30mins (generally a 2min drive…hell I can walk faster)
You need to Google “Induced Demand”
You will NEVER have new freeways that go to/through Atlanta. It aint happening. Northern arcs, bypasses east, bypasses west…maybe. If anyone has been imposing their view its opposite of the way you see it.
So, Teri, are you starting a GA Pol pool about the 3rd ‘thing’? My money is on a routine inspection of Spaghetti Junction pylons finding a soil shift from recent storms and they have to shutdown the whole thing for months.
P.S. I wonder how Cap’n Herbs toe would be feeling today.
Spaghetti Junction shutdown? WHAT KIND OF EVIL ARE YOU TRYING TO WISH UPON METRO ATLANTA?!!
But seriously, please Lord no.
Amen to that
Well, they say bad things come in 3’s (I’m counting the chemical spill on the connector as the 3rd)
I’ll accept that. And if we count Harambe, we probably complete the Tax Day/Election Day triangle.
Debbie Dooley has made the big time…fighting for the environment!
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/4/18/15339266/debbie-dooley-tea-party-conservative-republicans-renewable-energy
Adults in the room…
“White House officials said on Tuesday they were relying on guidance from the Defense Department. Officials there described a glitch-ridden sequence of events, from a premature announcement of the deployment by the military’s Pacific Command to an erroneous explanation by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — all of which perpetuated the false narrative that an American armada was racing toward the waters off North Korea.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html?_r=1
So they lost a carrier group? The good news is they found it.
I posted a story here last week, (I think this one from Navy Times: https://www.navytimes.com/articles/korea-crisis-deepens-as-the-us-dispatches-the-carl-vinson-strike-group-to-the-region), that led “The head of all U.S. forces in the Pacific canceled a planned carrier exercises and port visits in Australia and redirected the Carl Vinson carrier strike group to the waters off the Korean Peninsula”.
That seemed pretty plain–forget shore leave for a while and gear up for Korea. Either the press was informed that orders were cut to go to Korea when there were no orders, or orders were cut and then cancelled and no one remembered to let the media (and us) know. Neither alternative is reassuring. I wonder what group could be so slapdash and careless.
Incidentally, board IT people should know that their list of Morning Reads jumps from Tuesday April 11 to Wednesday April 5. You could hide a carrier group in that gap.