Good morning! We regret to inform you that the State Dinner honoring the Nigerian Crown Prince has been cancelled.
- Trump is a dictator! No, really: apparently, he dictated his son’s statement about his (fruitless) meeting with the Russians.
- In a blow to the NCGOP, a panel of Federal judges ordered North Carolina to redraw its district lines.
- Corey Lewandowski had a bad day yesterday, too.
- Two South Carolina utilities announces yesterday that they are “abandoning” two unfinished nuclear reactors (that have already cost $9 billion.) Currently, there are two other nuclear facilities under construction in the US. Perhaps, as a Georgian, you’re familiar with them?
- Following Trump’s remarks to a group of police last week, Cobb’s police chief assured the public that CPD treats all suspects “fairly and with respect.”
- White-nose syndrome is devastating Georgia’s bat population.
- It’s a big deal among conservationists: when I visited the Newberry National Volcanic Monument last month, before we explored the lava cave we had to assure the rangers that our clothes, shoes, and any gear we used had never, ever been in any other cave – and we can never wear those clothes, shoes, or use that same gear in any other cave again because the risk of contamination is so high.
- Richmond County State Court’s incoming chief judge wants to clean house.
- Atlantans may remember Mara Davis’ Radio Free Lunch. It’s back, in Spotify form.
- Many Trump administration officials and cabinet members attend the same Bible study that apparently approaches the Old Testament with a Trumpian perspective.