Good morning! It’s Budget Week. At the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, his daughter Bernice shared a message of unity during a time of political discord. (Many, many candidates were present to hear this message.) There was a car fire inside the Golden Ray. The Canadian Broadcasting
Good morning! Today is the second legislative day. If you’d like to play along at home, here’s the Adjournment Resolution with the schedule through early February. If you wear a seatbelt, you have a much better chance of staying alive in a car crash. The chances of a seatbelt bill surviving the Senate? Eh, maybe
Good morning! Have you read Charlie’s Session 2020 preview yet? Because… Back benchers in the Republican party who are free of the burdens of governing or math will likely grandstand on platitudes and purity tests. This will please hyper-partisans that call themselves the “base” and keyboard warriors in the comment section, but will please members
Good morning! Bipartisan efforts between Representatives Lucy McBath and Buddy Carter aim to improve public health technology. Work is underway to revise Georgia’s math standards. (No, this is not an article about the proposed state budget cuts.) Max Blau gives us compelling reporting on the state of healthcare in Georgia’s prisons. Here are two of
“Being in the fight matters.” That’s one of several factors that motivated former Representative and House Democratic Caucus Chair (as well as my immediate predecessor) Stacey Evans to announce her candidacy for House District 57, which is an open seat following Pat Gardner’s retirement announcement last week. Her announcement is to the point: As a
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
