Morning Reads for Wednesday, October 23

Georgia

• Georgia one of three states not participating in an antitrust probe of Facebook
• Nearly all of the state is in drought, including “Extreme Drought” in Metro Atlanta
• UNG named top ROTC among senior military colleges
• Shaq paid an Atlanta shooting victim’s rent for a year (and should be nominated for America’s Ambassador At-Large)
• Tyler Perry is Hollywood
• Columbus commission recommends independent citizen review board for police complaints
• Coroner rules Georgia Southern player’s death caused by overdose

There Be Dragons

• Al Jolson won the Canadian elections without a plurality of votes or an Electoral College
• Brexit will probably be decided by a General Election this year
• Get it together, Houston. They’ll find a way to be even more insufferable if they pull it off.
• The Washington Post has the opening statement of the acting Ambassador to Ukraine’s Congressional testimony
• Russia’s future is energy broker to the world
• Read the late Stephen Hawking’s letter to a budding astrophysicist
• “Whoa, it worked” says man to you, via space