Mid-Morning Reads for Friday, June 19

Good morning. I’m in for Ginny today, so here are your mid-morning reads for Juneteenth 2020.

Here:

• A Confederate monument is removed from the square in downtown Decatur
• A Fulton Commissioner files petition challenging challenger’s victory
• Standardized testing might get punted for the 2020-2021 school year
• COVID-19 is still a thing
• Bill to privatize historic structures in order to save them is dead for this session

There:

• Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s book is gonna drop, and it might have some doozies
• Of course, former acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney says those doozies are just nothingburgers
• President Donald Trump will submit “enhanced papers” on SCOTUS’ DREAMer decision
• Australian Prime Minister warns of sophisticated cyber attacks that have hit the country
• Should I stay or should I go?

Yonder:

• Baseball is still on-hold until MLB and the players’ union come to terms–maybe they’ll decide before Opening Day 2021
• It’s not just cow farts that are putting methane into the atmosphere
• Just in case y’all are wondering, the 2020-2024 Amateur Extra Class question pool goes into effect on July 1st
• SpaceX have been putting a whole bunch of birds into orbit, but how will its SpaceLink service work?

And that’s all for today. Have a good weekend, and maybe do our state and community and patronize local agribusiness.