August 31, 2020 8:19 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, August 31, 2020
It’s the last Monday of August with only 9 Mondays until Election Day and 16 Mondays until Christmas.
You’re welcome.
- Georgia island adds maritime forest to protected acreage
- New protocols for Georgia absentee ballots
- Sen. Kelly Loeffler making a stop in Savannah on her ’All About Georgia’ tour
- Georgia Research Alliance names new president – Susan Shows
- Georgia mother captured emotional photo of her son crying in virtual class to show difficulties of learning during pandemic
- Georgia Farm Bureau accepting entries for hay contest & hay directory
- Tyler Perry teams with Ga. First Lady Marty Kemp for human trafficking PSA
- Georgia man welcomed home after months-long battle with COVID-19
- Georgia boy, 1, snatched from stroller at gunpoint reunited with his mother; suspects in custody
- Coronavirus cases in Georgia appear to be trending down from spike
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Theresa Garcia Robertson
Wife. Mama. Foodie. Political Junkie. Southern Enthusiast. Taco Lover.
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The last monday morning reader for quarantine August is here.
Waiting to see if the photos Sen. Loeffler posted on her social media accounts of her 8:30 junket on the top floor of the DeSoto in a city with a mask mandate will have on masks. Granted, private business are not required to enforce them, and tour stop is in the meeting space not the private club area (which has a bar and needs to meet the city bar ordinances re: masks). Interested to see who I know in the photo.
I did buy a few more bottles of bourbon than usual this past summer. No movies or dining out so more time sitting on the porch watching the sun go down.
“Georgia students are back to hitting the books, but their parents seem to have spent the summer hitting the bottle.
State tax revenue from alcohol sales has reached new highs, according to data from the Georgia Department of Revenue, which show that as coronavirus numbers peaked in the state, booze was flying off liquor store shelves like toilet paper.
In July 2020, the latest month for which tax info is available, wholesalers paid the state $20.2 million in taxes. That’s up from $16.3 million in July 2019, an almost 25% increase, and the highest number since February 2012, said Kristen Bartholomew, public information officer for the revenue department.”
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/news-to-me-georgians-turned-to-alcohol-as-pandemic-surged/5JDXH2FAPFDCFBWT7LD2LVDK3Q/
“Trump’s popularity slips in latest Military Times poll — and more troops say they’ll vote for Biden”
“In the latest results — based on 1,018 active-duty troops surveyed in late July and early August — nearly half of respondents (49.9 percent) had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. Questions in the poll had a margin of error of up to 2 percent.
Among all survey participants, 42 percent said they “strongly” disapprove of Trump’s time in office.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/
They are tired of this BS, too.