February 25, 2021 7:32 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, February 25, 2021
Peaches
- House GOP resumes tax-cut push as Georgia finances rebound
- Paulding County DA suspended by Georgia governor
- Counties pushing back on proposed logging bill
- House approves bill stipulating cities, counties can’t cut police funding
- Georgia counties seek legal fees for ‘frivolous’ Trump voter-fraud lawsuit
- Democrats’ biggest gains from 2008-2020 came in these Georgia counties
- The negative press on proposed changes to Georgia voter laws continues…
- Daylight Savings – No Daylight Savings – the Senate weights in.
- President Carter heads back to church
- AAA: Gas Prices jump 18% in Georgia
Jimmy Carter
- Constitutional concerns? FBI seized Congressional Cellphone Records re: Cap Attack
- No police on traffic stops for minor offenses.
- The Way to Fix the Lincoln Project
- Industrial hemp production in Illinois declined again.
- California has its own little internet world, per federal judge
- The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic
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The real Republican mantra is: We are always for local control except when the local government is run by Democrats.
I don’t remember the exact numbers but the town of Arcade had a cottage industry as a speed trap on Highway 129 between I-85 and Athens. They left construction barrels up for at least 5 years and reduced a divided four-lane to 40 mph. God only knows how much they took in as the ticket was issued as a violation of municipal code rather than state code so eventually the state stepped on them for not getting their piece of the action. Net result was the police force was reduced from 14 to 4. Net result of that was the overall crime rates went down.
I am vehemently against this bill taking local control of police budgets away from local communities. It should be entirely within the local citizenry and their local government’s purview.