Happy Constitution Day! Today is the day we commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 men on September 17, 1787. If you know how many Amendments are in the Bill of Rights, you’re ahead of ~74% of the population. Just go ahead and send the meteor…And now, for the news. Peaches
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office issued a press release early Monday morning calling on the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia to provide the data to substantiate a lofty claim about voter registration cancellation. The demand follows a 2019 claim by the ACLU and a more recent published report in which the organization said
Happy Thursday! Surely some don’t want it even mentioned, but it was on this date in 1794 that America’s first non-denominational college was chartered. Blount College later became… the University of Tennessee. It’s also ‘National TV Dinner Day,’ though that seems more disappointing than the chartering of UT. Here are the headlines for today: Peaches Another
It was on this date in 1976 that the US spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface. If 2020 keeps on, it may be time for a few of us to organize a plan to go back. Peaches Augusta monument protest delayed due to cost, threats.
Continued prayers this morning for our friends in Louisiana & Texas. It was on this date in 1894 that the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Peaches Georgia Universities Face Staggering Losses if Football Season Is
Good news… (and we all need some, don’t we?) In addition to being the date in 1866 on which it was formally declared by President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over, today is National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day. Peaches Georgia voters to be made ‘inactive’ after absentee mail undeliverable Hazmat suits for
Phone a friend….Today marks the 131st anniversary of the patent issued for a coin-operated telephone — in 1889, it was issued to William Gray. 71 years after that, “Echo I,” a balloon satellite, allowed the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite to take place. Peaches 2 longtime Georgia House incumbents appear to be defeated Man
Today is the 55th anniversary of President Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act. It’s also the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima. The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named “Little Boy” was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan where an estimated
Peaches Dead even race in Georgia between Trump, Biden. U.S. House chairman asks Kemp for documents detailing Georgia’s handling of COVID-19. Athens officials to consider 10 p.m. ‘last call’ for alcohol Macon mayor vetoes mask mandate for Bibb County Georgia student expelled for racist social media post she didn’t make. Rural Georgia’s ‘Legal Deserts’ Are
Happy Thursday! Today is the 116th anniversary of the invention of the ice cream cone which was delivered to us by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Peaches Kemp and Bottoms talking settlement. Warren asks CDC to mandate masks, citing Georgia’s local ban. This Georgia city beat back COVID-19. Georgia
