Happy Mardi Gras! Here’s your soundtrack for today. Pro bono publico.
- Columbus native, Clark Atlanta alum, and the High Museum’s Driskell Prize winner Amy Sherald painted former First Lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait.
- Here’s an in-depth interview with Sherald.
- The Trump budget plan includes money for the Port of Savannah. Is it enough?
- The flu has killed 66 Georgians.
- What happened to all the money left over from the Trump inaugural fete? It was supposed to go to charity. Okay.
- In Iceland, Bitcoin mining uses almost as much electricity as people.
- EYE WORMS. They are a thing.
- There’s a GOP Senate candidate in Wisconsin who come from a family of ardent Democrats. How ardent are they? Well, they maxed out to the Democratic incumbent their son is running against.