April 9, 2019 6:15 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 9
Good morning! Rain, rain, make the pollen go away, because allergy season in Georgia is starting earlier than ever (cough**CLIMATECHANGE**cough).
- Macon’s legendary Capricorn Studios will reopen with support from Mercer University.
- Abrams, Tomlinson – and whether they’ll run for the Senate in 2020.
- Speaking of climate change, increasing tidal floods mean that US 80 needs some shoring up (as it were).
- …and speaking of Pulaski, the greatest Polish freedom fighter ever, and without whom the American Revolution may not have been the success that it was, may have been a woman (or, more likely, intersex).
- Kaolin, the Georgia clay that’s a commodity, may be a good source for rare earth elements.
- Following the passage of HB 481, many Democratic women in Georgia vowed to run against GOP lawmakers. Last Friday, many of them made good on that threat.
- Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw agrees that we don’t have enough women in power in the U.S.
- Are Duluth or Atlanta the future of the U.S. city? National Geographic thinks they might be.
- Meanwhile, these are the people who made Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood a vibrant enclave that’s continued to thrive.
- Jane! Austen! Mega! Fans! In a truly lovely photo profile.
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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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Teri,
There is no link for the National Geographic article on Duluth, MN or GA.
So which is it? Climate Change or Atlanta creates it’s own weather because of it’s irresponsible growth? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990325104705.htm What Atlanta needs to do is spread the people out around Georgia. This way all of rural Georgia can benefit for the Atlanta economy. Then they could tear down the concrete jungle that is heating center Georgia. Also, be redistributing Alantians throughout Georgia there will be no need to take a straw to the Tennessee River. I would suggest that we start by moving the more well to doers first to the small towns. This would bring up the local tax base so then when the lower income folks are moved the small towns will be able to absorb it. In the meantime, after the upper 10% are moved out, the lower 10% can move into their houses.
Atlanta doesn’t (nor does any city) “create” its own weather, it changes the weather. Thus, climate change by man-made activity.
(Although you could argue about weather vs. climate.)
But not surprising facts, especially if you note the date of the study is 1999.
Summary: Cities hotter.
My thoughts:
In a communist system that is probably what would happen. Except there wouldn’t actually be any well-to-do folks.
A short term fix to the Tybee road is all well and good, but they have been planning, researching, and looking at funding an expanded raised 4 lane since 1985.
I think the issue might be costs vs. benefits. Yes, the need to upgrade US Highway 80 is evident but the cost to do so versus the number of people who use this road needs to be justified. I’m from Savannah and I know the perils of rain at high tide or a hurricane of even force one. The costs for this will be bourne by the entire country and it isn’t cheap.
This has been an issue for 30 years and the problem continues to grow due to extreme weather events. Here’s a link from 2014 with the Mayor asking for help.
http://www.wtoc.com/story/26124918/tybee-mayor-calls-for-upgrades-to-us-highway-80/
As the mayor said, it’s just not the weather.
Right now the county is replacing the draw bridges on Presidents Express Way. If is a county owned road, it gets done. But Tybee is a US Highway. We have to play nice.