May 18, 2017 2:42 PM
Morning Reads – Thursday, May 18, 2017
Due to a technical glitch, your Morning Reads are now Afternoon Reads – mgt.
On this date in 1896, the US Supreme court upheld the “separate but equal” policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. The ruling was overturned 58 years later with Brown vs. Board of Education.
Peaches
- The case for Stacey Abrams
- Here we go with the high school football conditioning incidents
- Second ICE inmate in 2 days to die in Georgia custody
- Gray death takes Georgia
- The Government of Georgia hires former Trump fundraiser
- Georgia schools and the conundrum of increased teacher benefits
- Georgia coroner shows up drunk
Jimmy Carter
- Conservatives Begin to Whisper: President Pence
- Immigration arrests are up 38%
- Pat Buchanan: It isn’t Watergate yet
- Poll-testing impeachment
- “I think Putin pays Trump”
Sweet Tea
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Every time I see the Jon Ossoff kitchen table ad, Karen Handel looks a little bit better. Another ten thousand views, and I might change my mind about who to vote for.
I know this is insensitive & cynical even as I type it.
“Georgia schools and the conundrum of increased teacher benefits” or “Cost of winning teachers’ votes increasing to unsustainable levels”
It was enlightening to spend a lot of time recently engaging people in Europe and around the Mediterranean along with attending lectures from other perspectives. The universal opinion of the working folks is our governments are failing us, politicians are vile, becoming increasingly intrusive in our lives and we are saddled with supporting the least dirty.
Locally, spending $30 million to elect a house member, leveraging for public pay increases, adding controls for the compliant only, failing to enforce and attacking the other party like a rabid squirrel is a guarantee our expectations of sound public services are not forthcoming. We can’t agree on what government’s role in our lives is.
The dollar is strong and this is a wonderful time to get out of our cocoon for a bit of empirical learning in other parts of the world. If the worst case for us nationally is President Pence, it is a win for the Republic. Enjoy your summer.
I think history will judge Citizens United to be a Plessy v. Ferguson type decision of our era.