Good morning! If you have children at home, I hope for everyone’s sake that they’re back in school today – and that’s one more reason why we need to keep the Albany area in our thoughts, since school there won’t resume until January 17. Power outages are still widespread, and cleanup continues more than a week after fierce storms and a tornado touched down in Albany, and affected residents can find resources here.
- Macon-Bibb County will vote next week to accept a subsidy that will bring nonstop flights to Washington, D.C. to Middle Georgia Regional Airport.
- The AJC’s Cheetah story will undoubtedly be fascinating as it unfolds.
- Atlanta’s Brenda Wood discusses her plans for retirement following an award-winning career in journalism.
- Port Wentworth gets the Savannah area’s first diverging diamond interchange next week.
- The Augusta Commission considers a “ban the box” for city job applications.
- As many as sixteen Jewish community centers in the eastern U.S. received bomb threats yesterday.
- Rex Tillerman’s “theatrical” management style. (The WSJ’s dateline is fantastic.)
- Meanwhile, in the Trump inner circle, the Mercer legacy is complete.
- It’s the end of an X-er are as the Limited closed all its stores.
- You’ve probably seen pictures of the famous “tunnel tree” in California – maybe you’ve even walked through the ancient sequoia. Unfortunately, it was felled by the storm that ravaged northern California over the weekend.