Good morning! The situation in southwest Georgia remains dire. Updates are below, and here is the link to the donation page for the Second Harvest of South Georgia food bank.
- Here’s the latest news on the recovery from WALB in Albany.
- Photos from the devastated areas.
- Albany natives Luke Bryan and Phillip Phillips are organizing a benefit concert. They haven’t set a date yet – but it probably won’t be February 5, when Bryan is set to perform the National Anthem at the Superbowl.
- Georgia’s peanut producers target Millennials.
- Georgia’s
alcohol distributorslawmakers may be close to reaching an on-site sales compromise with the state’s independent brewers and distillers. - U.S. sweet potato consumption doubled over the past 15 years, which coincided nicely with a decline in tobacco production.
- Mothers and daughters explain why they marched on Saturday.
- And what’s the deal with those pink hats, anyway?
- Related: watch Knitter Twitter get fired up.
- Speaking of hats, will there be one for The Great Conservative Sorting?
- Trump’s cabinet has the most white men in a Presidential cabinet since 1981.
- His “National Day of Patriotic Devotion” isn’t as creepy as it sounds, thankfully.
- “Very Major” border tax on the way. #SmootHawley2017
- Related: He’s still hung up on millions of illegal votes (and it’s still not true).
- NOAA has a new weather satellite, and it’s probably going to be awesome!
- Make Playgrounds Great Again!
- If America’s first, can The Netherlands be second? Please? Grab ’em by the pony.