Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope that you went to the kind of elementary school where the students were required to bring a Valentine for everyone in the class (and if you didn’t, I hope your shoebox wasn’t empty at the end of the day). If you prefer your Valentines to be a little more literary, I recommend these. And of course, always, there are these.
- Henryetta, Oklahoma residents are out of luck if they planned on attending the town’s annual Valentine’s Day dance. What that town needs is a scrappy newcomer!
- To Obama with love (and hate, and desperation). It’s a moving piece written before the 2017 Inauguration and it poses quite the contrast to what we are seeing from today’s White House.
- For the first time, the VA will not be headed by a veteran.
- Are you using a free tax return service? Buyer beware.
- Only thirty percent of commuters to Seattle’s city center drive alone. 47% use transit. This, in a city that lost its mass transit funding to Atlanta 46 years ago.
- Idaho Republicans tried to build a better alternative to Obamacare. It didn’t work.
- A Marietta ice cream manufacturer is concerned about Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation.
- Fast Company named two Atlanta-based companies, Mail Chimp and The Home Depot, to its list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world – on all of planet Earth!
- Speaking of major Georgia companies, Duluth-based AGCO is using Google Glass to build a better tractor.
- Georgia’s surgeons want $1 million from the state’s Super Speeder fund to put tourniquet kits in every public school in Georgia.
- Violent crimes are increasing in Warner Robins.
- Grant’s Lounge in Macon – and the birth of Southern Rock.
- For the first time since Prohibition, Savannah has a distillery.
- Nobody will choo-choo-choose you as their Valentine if you “upskirt” them – and soon in Georgia, it might land you in jail.