September 1, 2020 10:53 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 1
Good morning! It’s September. I’ve always thought that September is the cruelest month, because we want so dearly for fall to arrive, but it’s basically hot as blazes all month.
- In a major update to Georgia’s election process, a judge ruled yesterday that absentee by mail ballots must be counted if they are postmarked on election day, as long as they arrive within three days of election day.
- Elections officials in Long County hope to find answers to a “complete breakdown” that resulted in odd irregularities in a judicial race there.
- The Georgia Department of Community Health anticipates a shortage of almost $400 million next year.
- One recent poll indicates that the presidential race is a tossup in Georgia.
- Wear a mask, and stop talking so loudly! speaking quietly helps stop the spread of COVID-19, really.
- This is especially important for kids, who carry huge amounts of the virus even when asymptomatic.
- Georgia State University “delivers opportunity for all,” in a way that makes it unique among other universities in Georgia.
- The Lower 9th Ward, 15 years post-Katrina.
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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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The data he is using is from 2019, I imagine it may be worse next year when the 2020 data is reported:
” For 2nd year, nearly half of Georgia’s counties report more deaths than births
The Georgia Department of Public Health earlier this week published mortality data for 2019 and TIGC can now report that, for the second year in a row, right at half the state’s 159 counties reported more deaths than births.
For 2018, as TIGC reported a year ago, 79 counties reported more deaths than births; for 2019, 78 counties reported more deaths than births and one county — Treutlen — broke even, with 77 births and 77 deaths.
Only a few of the 78 counties would not be considered rural, either by dint of a small population or remote location. Perhaps most notably, Fayette County, on the southern edge of Metro Atlanta, and Floyd County, a major population and economic center in northwest Georgia, both found themselves in negative territory for the second year in a row. Fayette County has long been recognized as a popular area for retirees and has an older-than-average population; the reasons for Floyd County’s slippage are less apparent.
Other mid-sized but remotely located counties whose birth-to-death ratio has gone negative in recent years include Baldwin County (Milledgeville) and Sumter County (Americus). ”
https://troubleingodscountry.com/
You have links to the data? I am curious about Dade.
I believe he uses OASIS, https://oasis.state.ga.us/What-Can-Oasis-Do-For-You.aspx , to obtain the data.
“My initial focus had been on the economic, educational and civic death of Georgia’s rural areas, but I decided one day to explore whether some counties might literally be dying. DPH’s publicly available OASIS database includes county-level birth and death data going back to 1994 and makes this analysis pretty simple.”
You could ask the regional office in Rome if they have this data. Or the Dade county public health office.
I just looked it up on Oasis. Dade county had 185 deaths and 144 births in 2019.