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Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 10

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Good morning! Here’s a delightful profile of Taqueria del Sol’s chef Eddie Hernandez (including the secret ingredient in the chain’s addictive and perfect cheese dip).

  • Meanwhile, what has the south done to arroz con pollo? MADE IT EVEN MORE AWESOME, that’s what.
    • Fun fact: we are a big chicken & rice family. Scott Peacock’s recipe, made with short grain rice, is a family staple, but we’ve been experimenting with C&R recipes from around the world, including one Spain, Finland, and Atlanta chef Asha Gomez’s spectacular version that I am pretty sure I’ve linked to before.
  • ICE is doing roundups in Glynn County.
  • The transit conversation in Cobb County is just getting started.
  • Russia’s influence on the NRA may be deeper than originally believed.
  • Speaking of Russia… here’s a preview of Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony.
  • Huh. I wonder if the federal deficit hitting the $1 trillion mark in 2020 will impact that election cycle? What was it that Carville said all those years ago…?
  • The DOJ approved a massive Monsanto-Bayer deal.

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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.

14 Comments
  1. Baker

    Monsanto-Bayer is not good news. Have a real hard time believing this will not lead to a ton of monopolistic behavior, conscious or not.

    • bethebalance

      Besides the mountains of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and other corporate influences involved, it seems like an easy fix.

      • bethebalance

        Just delegating better standards and procedures to the FTC would be a good start for the business swamp creatures. Real campaign finance reform…might require battle with every toad, snake, and gator.

      • Dave Bearse

        TPP would been something. Bi-lateral agreements don’t present a united front. History may well determine that the US rejection of TPP was seminal event in China dominating the northwestern Pacific.

  2. Ellynn

    Why we mess around with funding our infrastructure, China funds not only theirs but other counties – for their benefit.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-09/china-s-belt-and-road-gains-momentum-from-kunming-to-mombasa

    It’s all art of the Silk Road project. It also fits in their 2025 plan.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/china-s-silk-road

    • xdog

      Here’s a perky piece of propaganda I posted last year. Warning, cute kids ahead.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lJc3PMNIg

      “The Belt connects the land
      The Road moves on the sea
      The promise that they hold
      Is joint prosperity
      We’re breaking barriers
      We’re making history
      The world we’re dreaming of
      Starts with you and me.”

      • Benevolus

        Reminds me of back when I was a volunteer for Howard Dean, we used to play this song at events:
        https://youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0

        • xdog

          Solid anthem but I can’t see anyone ever thinking of Patti as ‘perky’.

  3. Ellynn

    So China announce this morning that it’s going to remove restrictions on American car companies building cars in China, and 12 hours later Ford make a huge announcement (with a target date that fits in nicely to the ‘Made in China 2025’ plan.

    http://www.financialexpress.com/auto/car-news/ford-china-unveils-5-new-models-with-plans-to-launch-50-new-or-redesgined-vehicles-by-2025/1128373/

  4. Benevolus

    These ICE raids are really unfair. Why are we not targeting the law-breaking employers? Those are the guys that are screwing up the competitive environment, risking the health and safety of their workers, and not paying taxes.

  5. chefdavid

    I think I found where we can get a good deal on a bullet train. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forgotten-grumman-tlrv

  6. augusta52

    With the unseasonably cold weather—snow for that matter—in much of the US east of the Mississippi, would it be too much to ask MLB in future years to start the season around April 15, instead of late March or early April? Maybe we could get by with “only” 140 or 145 games a year?

  8. augusta52

    Andrew, thanks for clarification on the off-days with regard to the baseball season—seems like I have been used to Mondays and Thursdays being “off days” for play, though not necessarily for travel. Reminds me of old Augusta story on the Masters—every few years, Easter coincides with the Masters (the tournament traditionally ending on the second Sunday in April). Legend has it that in days of old, some Augusta preachers were upset about the Masters being played on Easter Sunday—blasphemy in their view. Clifford Roberts, the long time chairman of the club (1934-1976), reportedly an atheist, supposedly said something to the effect, “well, who is in charge of Easter? Have them change the date of it.” (Easter, by the way, often occurs “twice” a year—April 1 this year was the western (Christian) one, and April 8 was Easter for the Eastern Orthodox—of course there are a lot more of the former than the latter in Augusta—and in the US overall. Seldom do the two church calendars coincide.)

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