Month: June 2019

Morning Reads – Thursday, June 6, 2019

If this doesn’t make your day, nothing will: 97-year-old WWII veteran parachutes over Normandy. And this plane flew on D-Day. Now it’s back in the air. Peaches Could Georgia Consider Work Requirements For Medicaid? Pretending you need an emotional support dog is selfish and irresponsible. Whistleblower who leaked video of student’s injury settles lawsuit with Muscogee County

Rural Broadband Mapping

Currently providers of fixed broadband are required to provide a list of all census blocks where fixed broadband service is currently available. Under this system, providers can report a census block as “served” or report updated speeds in an entire block when, only one specific location has access to broadband service or updated speeds. This

The Heartbeat goes on

On May 7th when Governor Kemp signed HB481 the abortion debate intensified despite the legislation not going into effect until January 1, 2020. Demonstrations and movie studios re-evaluating their Georgia investments continue to dominate the news cycle. This morning the House Judiciary Committee opened a hearing entitled “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America”. Ranking member

Biden, Buttegieg, Booker and Beto (Oh, My!) Spending the Week in Georgia

From Wednesday to Thursday our lives will be improved as four Democratic Presidential hopefuls deign to grace us with their presence. Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Corey Booker, Mayor Pete Buttegieg and former congressman Beto O’Rourke will be in Atlanta for a series of fundraisers and Thursday’s African American Leadership Summit and IWillVote Gala. Really

Opposition to Financial Services Appropriations Bill

14th District Congressman Tom Graves opposed the Fiscal Year 2020 spending bill. As the Republican Leader of Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, Graves specifically opposed the bill increasing spending over last year’s amount by 8 percent, or $1.8 billion. Congressman Graves voiced his concerns as follows: The total level of discretionary spending

Disaster aid clears House

On Monday the House finally approved the disaster aid package that had been blocked on three different occasions in the last few days. The disaster relief package provides $3 billion in critical disaster relief funding for farmers recovering from Hurricane Michael. This legislation passed the U.S. Senate last month and is headed to the President’s

Morning Reads for Tuesday, June 4

Good morning! Studios including Disney, Netflix, WarnerMedia, Viacom, Sony, AMC, and NBCUniversal will likely rethink their relationship with Georgia should HB 481 go into effect. The Orly crash that indelibly changed Atlanta’s arts landscape happened 57 years ago, yesterday. A new Georgia law should mean fewer abandoned and derelict mobile homes. Meet Atlanta’s American Ninja