September 26, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 26
Good morning! The Decatur Female Seminary opened on September 24, 1889. You might be more familiar with it as Agnes Scott College.
- The situation in Puerto Rico is devastating, and losses include nearly all of their agricultural crop.
- Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, the FEMA distribution center in Atlanta has been operating for 17 hours a day.
- Savannah looks to add solar panels to several existing buildings.
- Amazon is coming! (To Macon.)
- More airport congestion is coming! (To ATL.)
- Some perspective on the Equifax data bread: Equifax is responsible for 1,200 times more data than the Library of Congress.
- Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated 60 years ago this month. Here of profiles of all nine black students.
- Earthquake early warning systems save lives. Here’s how they work.
- Several private colleges are implementing a “tuition reset.” Will it work?
- A rare white giraffe was spotted in Kenya.
- Ezra Jack Keats, MLK, and “The Snowy Day.”
- Marilynne Robinson is one of America’s greatest living writers.
- “We’re not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as people of influence in this way. We don’t think that if we say something cruel and destructive now, it can go down generations in terms of its consequences. But it strikes me that this is true — and the thought makes me experience a certain fear and trembling about our political life at the moment. When we speak, we should ask ourselves: How will this ultimately play out? What will be the moral consequence of the fact that so many people have resorted to such crude, cruel language? We know it won’t be neutral. We know it won’t evaporate. It’ll be in people’s minds for generations.”
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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Is “Equifax data bread” a typo?
And they are off again.
http://www.wtoc.com/story/36451707/fort-stewart-soldiers-set-to-deploy-to-puerto-rico-to-assist-with-hurricane-recovery
It wasn’t that long ago that we had a president who revered Robinson and her explorations of the difficulties of faith. Nowadays, faith is for sad losers.
https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/2016-murder-statistics/
The FBI has released 2016 crime statistics.
White people: 26.46 murders per million
Black people: 183.38 murders per million
“It’s very tough because it’s an island…an island sitting in the middle of an ocean — and it’s a big ocean. It’s a very big ocean.” President Trump on why it’s difficult to get aid to Puerto Rico.
Excess me but…. They have these things called planes. Very big planes that land on islands or drop things on them. The 165th out of Savannah has been flying non stop since Saturday. It’s a 5.5 Hour flight. It takes longer to fly from Savannah to Dallas. The NY Air Guard has been running routes of supplies at the Governor Cuomo’s request since Friday. Even left some of is National Guard there. If Mark Cuban can load up a plane and make a few trips, what’s stopping other American folks who own private airliners from doing the same? (I’m talking to you Junior and Eric)
And there are ships. Big ships, very big ships. Big ships that cross big oceans, At least 8 have left the port of Savannah for Puerto Rico in the last 72 hours by private shipping firms. Some of the cargo is to restore their own docks and terminals for others to follow them in. It might take days of logistic planning to fill a ship, but 4 days after Maria hit and the USCG cleared daytime movement into the port, relief ships docked in hours. I’ve seen the USNS Bob Hope filled by the army with tons of Oshkosh tanker trucks, personal carriers and Black Hawks with the wings folded and wrapped do an in and out of port in less then 30 hours – when ordered to do so. We could even do a Berlin Airlift like operation over the USVI and Puerto Rico.
If there is a Will, America always finds a way. It’s not about ‘difficulties’. FEMA has been working overtime in the last 48 hours on the islands. We as a nation thrive on handling tough. So Why did it take the President a week to even address this and whine about it being tough?
Why? No instant gratification involved.
He’ll eventually take credit for anything positive that comes out of it though.
Senator Snowflake Corker to retire. Good! Time for a Trump supporter to run and take the seat on behalf of the Deplorables!! Taking the country back one seat at a time! How big will that granite Ten Commandments rendering be in the Senate after Roy wins?!
Moore wins!! 930 pm. 15 points! Lol!
Not even Trump supporters, and that’s an extraordinarily low bar, bought the charade that there was no conflict of interest in Bentley appointing Strange.
I imagine he’ll make as many friends as his soon-to-be-colleague Senator Cruz.
The 2016 GOP Presidential field was touted as the best in a generation, and the base picked the idiot. More fun times for the GOP establishment.