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Morning Reads for Election Day!

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Good morning! It’s Election Day. Have you voted?

  • October saw record growth for the Port of Savannah.
  • Should the next mayor of Atlanta be black?
    • (How nice of the author to note that one of the candidates is a member of the Junior League of Atlanta, which is well-known for its advocacy efforts.)
  • Why is the CDC “sitting on the sidelines” on the issue of firearms injury research?
  • Meanwhile, in Africa, the CDC stays ahead of a potentially devastating infectious disease.
  • GDOT recently returned more than $4 million in federal funding that was intended for transportation projects.
  • These coal miners are rejecting retraining opportunities because Trump.
  • The world is running out of magnetic tape. If you’ve ever wanted to see a WSJ stipple illustration of a mixtape, this is your link.
  • A coloring book for Atlanta.
  • Many private colleges and universities have healthy endowments. The GOP wants to tax ’em.
    • At Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., which has an endowment of more than $200 million, the president, Elizabeth Kiss, said that most students were minorities and 40 percent had incomes low enough to qualify for federal Pell grants. Because of the endowment, she said, “We are able to give financial aid to basically pretty much all of our students.”
  • We’re back in standard time and whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy do we do this to ourselves, again?
  • 25 years of Automatic For The People (with videos).

 

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.

3 Comments
  1. xdog

    In addition to taxing endowments the House also proposes to plop a 20 percent excise tax on employees earning more than $1M and to eliminate tax-exempt private-activity bonds. If that tax break goes away the cost of building will go up for private schools.

  2. Noway2016

    Maggot shot twice by Good Samaritan. Once by his own hand. Thank God for common sense, decent people doing the right thing. America loves you!

  3. chamblee54

    In Brookhaven, the SPLOST amendment was seven ballot pages long.

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