September 3, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 3
Good morning! If you live east of I-95, you know what to do: be safe, and go with the contraflow.
- We’re still not sure exactly where Dorian will go next, and the wanton nature of hurricanes is precisely what makes them so lethal. Here are the latest updates from Savannah.
- Here’s what you might expect from Dorian if you live on one of Georgia’s Golden Isles.
- If your evacuation route includes the Talmadge Bridge in Savannah, you need to get across before 8 PM. After that, the bridge will close.
- Here’s a list of the impacted counties in Georgia, including those with mandatory evacuations if you’re east of I-95.
- More on Anthem’s dispute with the Northeast Georgia Health System.
- If Georgia legalizes casino gambling – and that’s a big if – whither goest thou spoils?
- If you’re a prisoner – or a former inmate – in Georgia, you’ll face and endless litany of fees – and you can’t even use the system’s required debit card to pay for your Georgia drivers’ license once you’re out.
- A mayoral candidate in DeKalb learns that Georgia’s resign-to-run laws are pretty ironclad.
- Hector Osorno, keeper of America’s ketchup.
- And whatever you do, FTLOG don’t put ketchup on your chicken sandwich. Meanwhile, it was 15 minutes to “mayhem” in the Popeyes/CFA war of ’19.
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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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Quick Item Terri, It’s not east of I-16 that’s evacuating, it is I-95. However East bound I-16 is being closed to east bound traffic this morning between Dublin and I-95 so there is that.
If sports betting becomes legal then there is no reasonable argument against poker, a game which skill counts more than luck. You aren’t even playing against the house but against each other. Legalize all of it, but having played in other states’ poker rooms it is beyond my reasoning on why we would curtail this freedom. If adults want to play a game between themselves then the only interest the state should have is just like the house, to get their piece of the action. The state’s proceeds however? Education seems to be a maw that can never be filled.
As long as we keep asking educators to also be baby sitters, therapists, security guards, mentors, hygienists, nurses, nutritionists, transportation professionals, entertainers, paralegals, and every other thing that we refuse to address otherwise, we should pay them accordingly.
Maybe it’s anecdotal, but the level of kids with behavioral problems seems to be increasing dramatically. Is that for social/cultural reasons? Or is there an environmental issue we need to identify?
I think it a combination of a change in parenting and much greater personal freedom.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”