Good morning! I’m back.
It’s primary day in several states. Here’s how Maine’s ranked choice voting works.
- A new book, written by a Georgian, makes the case that Jimmy Carter is our nation’s most underrated one-term President.
- A decision regarding the decades-long GA-FL-AL water wars might come this summer. What could it mean for Georgia’s farmers?
- Increased fees for hunting and fishing licenses are a boon for the Department of Natural Resources.
- Georgia’s top public universities are working to recruit more students from rural Georgia.
- A group including academics and representatives from government and NGO environmental groups released a roadmap for how climate change might impact Georgia.
- A quick-and-dirty rundown of the distracted driving law.
- Sea World and IKEA are among companies that are eliminating plastic straws and bags.
- Here are tips to keep the children in your life safe when you’re at the pool or the beach. Having swim lessons doesn’t mean your child is water competent.
- Do you live in one of the nation’s most disaster-prone zip codes?
- Ben Affleck’s Savannah-area estate is for sale. All you need is $9 million and maybe some Lysol.
- If you prefer the river to the beach, you only need around $7 million to buy Tom Glavine’s house in Alpharetta.
- The world’s biggest inflatable slide is in Acworth. (I am not a Fun Mom so this isn’t in the cards for my kids.)
- Here are this year’s Tony Award winners, and here is a Tiny Desk Concert featuring multiple Tony winner The Band’s Visit (yes, that’s Monk.)
- Anthony Bourdain’s 1999 essay in the New Yorker launched his career as a food writer and television personality. It holds up, and it’s worth a read.
- HANGER IS REAL.