Good morning! Here’s a holiday decorating PSA: you’re supposed to fluff your artificial garlands, wreaths, and trees. You’re welcome. In what is apparently not a unique event, a scorpion stung a passenger on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta. The United Way of Central Georgia will step in to save a critical
Good morning, and a tremendous thanks goes to Holly for covering the past two Tuesdays! Please keep sending those positive thoughts and prayers to President Carter. The holiday season is upon us, and there’s no better time to revisit this excellent piece on the emotional labor required of the women (it’s almost always the women)
Good morning! Please direct your prayers and positive thoughts to President Carter as he undergoes brain surgery this morning. A comprehensive timeline of all things Trump and Ukraine. Here’s another timeline of how we got to impeachment. Adidas is closing the company’s custom sneaker 3-D printing “Speedfactory” in Cherokee County. There’s a confirmed case of
It’s Election Day! Is there a municipal race in your city? Residents in thirty Georgia cities will vote to decide whether they will have an extra hour and a half to serve alcohol on Sundays. Many believe that mimosas = jobs. Will your city be Bloody Mary-ready? Lordy, Lordy, NPR’s Morning Edition is 40! What
California is still on fire. A new regulation in Georgia reduces the requirements for emergency medical personnel in ambulances. A man serving a life sentence for a conviction of rape and aggravated child molestation was accidentally released from Rogers State Prison in Reidsville. If you missed the demonstration of the state’s new voting machines at
Attorney General Chris Carr filed a complaint against Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) yesterday, alleging that the Newton County medical sterilization company “failed to recognize or disclose the duration and extent of the release,” referring to a September leak of 54.5 pounds of ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas that has also been the bane of
Good morning! I’m re-posting this excellent story on why the Port of Savannah matters to Chicago that Ellyn posted in the comments on yesterday’s Morning Reads. If you live or work in metro Atlanta, plan to work from home on November 8, because Trump is heading to town. The St. Simons estuary is “holding steady”
Good morning! If you haven’t had a moment to read Holly’s piece on knowledge and learning (and book burning) in Georgia, that should be your first stop. The Golden Ray will have to be disassembled in the St. Simons Sound. The Libertarian Party of Georgia is appealing a ruling that upholds Georgia’s ballot access laws.
Good morning! Senator Isakson hopes that our presiding stable genius, he of the great and unmatched wisdom, will rethink his approach to the Middle East. The University System of Georgia’s health insurance will now cover gender-affirmation surgery. Meet DeKalb County’s first female police chief. Further judicial review is necessary to determine whether guns can coexist
Happy birthday, President Carter! The General Assembly, the governing body that creates the state’s appropriations legislation, politely requests that the Governor’s office share the plans that state agencies submitted to the Governor’s office in response to his request that they cut spending by 4% this year, and 6% next year. (Here’s a primer for how
