August 23, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 23
Good morning! If you’re looking for a way to support victims of the flooding in Baton Rouge, consider Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge. They have an emergency fund to assist cancer patients who are affected by the flood.
- Sordid details related to the move to restructure the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission.
- The Newton County mosque conflict continues.
- It’s a religious organization that wants to build a worship space, classrooms and meeting rooms, and have a natural burial ground. How does that differ from the religious organization in Rockdale County that has a worship space, educational spaces and meeting rooms, and a natural burial ground?
- Take a deep dive into the poverty in your community.
- Is Freaknik returning to Atlanta?
- In what may be the best-named list ever, Atlanta’s Tim Keane made the Engaging Local Government Leaders’ 2016 Chris Traeger List.
- NPR is ditching their comments section!
- Macon might be getting a new flag, now with 100% more cherry blossoms!
- Every knitter knows what it is to “tink,” but now the rest of the English-speaking world does, too!
- Are you familiar with the Victorians? They recently exhibited a bit of podsnappery.
- What do you know about founding mother Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton?
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Happy birthday to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s creation: the World Wide Web. I know our little home on the Web wouldn’t be here with out it. Maybe cat memes though.
Food for thought for a future morning read: Emory University will be annexed into the city of Atlanta in order to finally get MARTA access http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/atlanta-may-expand-to-cover-emory-university/nsKjc/
Fallout from the shenanigans of the legislature last session. The original DeKalb-Fulton MARTA tax increase proposal would have brought MARTA to this area, but that proposal was whittled down to just the city of Atlanta, plus north Fulton going its own way for more roads. The legislature just told DeKalb to go kick rocks, without even a promise to revisit the issue in the next legislative session. In addition, a proposal to allow the entire Druid Hills area, which included Emory University, to join Atlanta was not acted on by the same legislature that has bent over backwards to approve any and every request to turn small GOP enclaves into cities – often named after local high schools – left and right.
As a result Emory University will go it alone in a proposal that will not require approval from DeKalb County or the gold dome, because with first T-SPLOST and then the attempt of Fulton-DeKalb to go it alone were both rejected, it will pretty much be the only way to get light rail in this political climate. I wonder if the CDC will follow suit. Looks like the only requirement is to share a boundary with an existing part of the city. So I guess if Emory joins Atlanta, CDC will be able to follow suit because of their border with Emory?
It took what, a week, for Trump to make a liar of Conway? “He [Trump] doesn’t hurl personal insults,” she said Sunday. Trump within hours was tweeting personal insults about regular “Morning Joe” guests and co-hosts.