Morning Reads for Tuesday, July 12

212 years ago yesterday, Vice President Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel. They say Angelica and Eliza were both by his side when he died; death doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints*. Too late, Burr realized, “The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me.”*

Wait for it – it’s time for Morning Reads:

• Britain is on the fast track to a new Prime Minister. What do you know about Theresa May (Besides her correctly-spelled forename)?
• I’d like to think that, somewhere, the ghost of Ann Richards is giving Texas Governor Greg Abbott a slow clap of respect.
• They’ve said it once (NSFW), and they’re saying it again: Mexico is not going to pay for any wall.
• Amazon moves away from list prices.
• The former head of Chatham Area Transit was sentenced to seven years in prison for his CAT scam.
• Burrell Ellis had 40 minutes of freedom yesterday when he was permitted to sit in on the appeal of his case before the Georgia Supreme Court.
• The president of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP calls the Atlanta Police Department’s behavior during recent protests “exemplary.”
• Laurens County, represent!
• Here’s what happens when you cheat and use the toll lanes without a Peach Pass.
• The case for vocational training in American high schools.
• There’s a new Aaron Burr in town. Also, a conversation with #Javilton.

_{^{*Lyrics from Hamilton.}}

_{^{**Burr actually said this.}}