Morning Reads for Tuesday, February 28

Happy Mardi Gras! Here’s the history of my favorite Mardi Gras song, “Indian Red.” Dr. John and The Wild Tchoupitoulas (along with the Meters  and several Nevilles) each have terrific versions of this song, but my favorite is by Danny Barker:

You can should stream WWOZ all day.

• Bill Paxton saw JFK in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, on the morning of Kennedy’s assassination.
• PSC Commissioner Bubba McDonald is concerned that HB 479 will stifle the growth of solar energy in Georgia.
• Should minor offenders in Georgia stay in jail if they can’t afford bail?
  • Now with 100% more Dog the Bounty Hunter!
• Garden City moves forward with a mixed-use Town Center redevelopment.
• Robins Air Force Base has an economic impact of more than $2.86 billion, a 4% increase from last year.
• In Fulton County, another Wolf Creek employee was fired following a “damning audit” earlier this month.
• A long read on “Our Miserable 21st Century.” (h/t to Jim Galloway)
• Analysis of last week’s “Act of American terror in Trump’s heartland.”
• The preponderance of cancer in firefighters isn’t just a concern in Georgia.
• Trump learns that health care, it’s complicated. Who knew? Sad!
• SpaceX shoots for the moon.
• Here’s a mesmerizing Mardi Gras time-lapse video.
• Mardi Gras means Lent, and Lent means Easter, and Easter means the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Or does it???
  • Now with 100% more Sean Spicer in a bunny costume!

Here’s what’s on the Senate floor today:

• SB 5 – Lottery for Education; net proceeds transferred to the state treasury for credit to the Lottery for Education Account; establish the percentage (Substitute) (H ED-46^th)  
• SB 166 – “Nurse Licensure Compact”; Georgia Board of Nursing exercise certain powers with respect to compact; authorize (H&HS-45^th)
• SB 168 – Child Abuse; permitted to access child abuse records by department, or county, or other state or local agency; extend; Central Child Abuse Registry; permit access (H&HS-49^th)
• SB 103 – ‘The Pharmacy Patient Fair Practices Act’; pharmacy benefits managers; Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate certain rules and regulations; authorize (Substitute) (I&L- 53^rd) 
• SB 130 – Right To An Attorney; waiver of the right to counsel; provisions; clarify (Substitute) (JUDY- 19^th)
• SB 183 – State Road and Tollway Authority; definition; powers of the authority; provide (TRANS- 21^st)
• SB 202 – Medical Assistance; increase in the personal needs allowance to be deducted from a nursing home resident’s income; provide (Substitute) (H&HS- 33^rd)
• SR 104 – State Ad Valorem Taxes; prohibit levy –CA (FIN- 31^st)