Good morning! Shoutout to N’Chris (regular readers may recall that he is my spouse, and he’s sent me several primo links this week).
- But first, Smyrna news. In a state where some cities have cancelled their municipal elections because there’s only one candidate for each seat, three candidates qualified to run for Smyrna’s Ward 3 yesterday – and there’s still a day and a half of qualifying to go.
- One national PAC is crowdfunding campaigns for candidates in Georgia who want to run against unopposed members of Congress.
- One opinion writer notes that not every critique of Hillary Clinton is rooted in sexism.
- There’s a rising death toll for journalists in India.
- During Hurricane Irma briefings in Manatee County, Florida, the sign language interpreter was pretty lousy, and warned of the approaching pizza and bear monster.
- Are you watching The Vietnam War on PBS? That’s our family viewing this
weekmonth.- Related: Georgia wants to honor all of our state’s Vietnam veterans.
- What we can learn by knitting and embroidering reproduction mittens from one of America’s WWII-era Japanese internment camps.
- “Feed me, Seymour!” Here are the most-produced high school musicals in America.
- Where are the female executive chefs in Atlanta?
- Updated at 8:47 because how could I omit the Juggalo link?