September 12, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 12
Good morning! I hope that you are safe, dry, and that you have power, and that the same goes for those people and places you hold dear.
- Firsthand accounts of Irma’s impact in Savannah.
- Glynn County’s borders are closed until officials determine the scope of the damage.
- No power? No bucket trucks in sight? That doesn’t mean people aren’t hard at work restoring power.
- Georgia DFCS released food benefits early this month to help families impacted by Irma.
- Amazon is coming to Atlanta! No, not HQ2 (YET). But it’s 150 jobs in Midtown Atlanta.
- Several members of an “uncontacted” Brazilian tribe were reportedly massacred by gold miners.
- What it’s like to be trapped by a Category 5 hurricane.
- What does surviving a hurricane mean for a child’s mental health?
- A riveting, heartbreaking account of what it means to be an ad hoc dispatcher for the Cajun Navy.
- The “risky task” of evacuating senior prior to a hurricane.
- “When you evacuate, there is an inherent body count for frail, older adults.”
- Riveting journalism from Cincinnatti: Seven days in the region’s heroin epidemic.
- How Dan Rather changed the way we understand hurricanes.
- Your Nasty Kitchen Sponge, Part The Third: It’s not quite as dangerous as Big Sponge wants you to think it is.
- The first Piggly Wiggly opened its doors 101 years ago this month.
- “One day Memphis shall be proud of Piggly Wiggly… And it shall be said by all men… That the Piggly Wigglies shall multiply and replenish the earth with more and cleaner things to eat”
- Why did boys swim naked in Chicago’s public schools until the late 1970s?
- Why it’s hard to write about Florida. A beautiful, funny essay about our most misunderstood – and underestimated – state.
- “It takes 15 minutes for the people at Publix to build my pub sub, which is 12 minutes longer than any other establishment takes to make a sandwich. But I’d stand in line longer than that if I had to.”
About Author
Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Check out yesterday’s 0:44 sec Trump-made video commemorating 9/11: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2017/09/11/video-trump-melania-commemorate-911-white-house/ featuring practically nothing else other than Trump, natch, because no one loves or is sacrificing more for the country that he. It was tough having to look across the Hudson River at the thousands of MJ Muslims celebrating the fall of the twin towers.
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Then there was Fox News host Brian Kilmeade with the real question we should have been asking ourselves yesterday: “Do you worry 100 years from now someone is going to try to take that memorial down like they are trying to remake our memorials today?”
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Well yeah, because statues erected 30 to 90 years after the Civil War ended that memorializing Confederates that fought to maintain slavery and symbolizing that continuing racist persecution was yet government-condoned, are exactly the same thing as memorials remembering the thousands of Americans who died in a terror attack.
Andddddd, 90 tears after THAT, folks are still whining and making excuses for all ills imaginable! Blacks should be literally furious that they are all being painted as victims.
Speaking of funny swimming attire: Ever notice how pictures of European swimmers show all men in Speedo style swim trunks? It’s not a fashion statement, it’s the law. In France anyway, they don’t want people wearing anything that could be considered street clothes into the pool, for cleanliness reasons.
“In France anyway, they don’t want people wearing anything that could be considered street clothes into the pool, for cleanliness reasons.”
OUCH! I don’t think I even want to use my imagination there.
I was there for Hurricane Carla and Dan Rather’s entry into major media:
https://brookhavenbear.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/texas-weather/
“…individuals registering in the 30 days before an election or on the same day as an election—as New Hampshire allows—can register by promising to bring documents proving their residence to local officials within 10 days or 30 days in smaller towns.
“The law provides potential jail sentences of up to a year and a fine of up to $5,000 for failing to submit the paperwork.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/09/12/new-hampshire-voting-law-court-ruling-242587
I just don’t know what to say. How can something like this become law?
Teri, regardless of how your fall election turns out I hope you’ll keep posting links to great stories like the volunteer dispatcher in Houston and the woman lost in Orlando. You can think of it as constituent service. Thanks.
Thank you!