Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 11

Good morning! Start your day with this story from Australia, and marvel that it didn’t happen in Florida.

• Here are the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners. Congratulations to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution! The AJC staff was recognized as a finalist in the National Reporting category.
• More than 21,000 people have already voted in the April 18 special election.
• The flat tax – it’s back! But sadly, not in Pog form.
• Meet Kay Ivey, the new Governor of Alabama.
  • Meanwhile, here are five particularly weird and/or salacious details in the Bentley impeachment report.
    • (Someone had to register that URL.)
    • (“Bless our hearts… and other parts” is unlikely to make its way to some tchotchke at a Cracker Barrel near you.)
• There are too many homeless people in America. Each dot on this map represents five homeless people.
• This past weekend notwithstanding, Delta is at the top of the Airline Quality Rating. (United, not so much.)
• Astronaut (and Georgia Tech alum) Shane Kimbrough is back on earth following 173 days in space. Fun fact: Georgia Tech boasts 14 astronaut alums.
• The Muscogee County School Board voted to table a controversial $6.4 million contract with Camelot Education, a for-profit system that seeks to run the district’s alternative education programs.
• An interesting pie chart showing one metric defining who is represented in the Senate.
• Philadelphia’s nuns are transitioning their approach to their “divine work” to better meet 21st century needs.
• Newnan’s Miss Pearl is back.
• At this point, I don’t even know if that giraffe is actually pregnant. But these ospreys near Savannah have actual eggs, so maybe watch this birth cam instead.