April 23, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 23
- What Nipsey Hussle and Ryan Gravel have in common.
- Drill, baby, drill – but please not in Georgia, okay, Mr. President? A new report highlights potential risks of offshore drilling in the Atlantic.
- How the 2017 Tybee tornado helped scientists understand how heavy things move in severe weather.
- The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team delves into Boston’s reputation for racism.
- Measles outbreaks in the United States continue to break records. (Tragic, entirely avoidable records.)
- Congress considers ways to make college more accessible to those in prison.
- Elizabeth Warren’s years as a Republican.
- Voters in Ukraine overwhelmingly chose a comedian who plays the president on television to be their president.
- The logistics of Girl Scout cookies.
- Everything went terribly wrong at this Columbus-area Easter egg hunt (I cannot fathom the logic in dropping eggs from a dang helicopter.)
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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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That egg “drop” video needs to be slow-mo’d and set to Barber’s Adagio for Strings, OP 11.
Cliché it may well be but I would opt for Ride Of The Valkyries. Oh well, at least it wasn’t turkeys.
The only thing missing is a deranged bunny, oh wait…
http://www.newspressnow.com/news/national/easter-bunny-street-brawl-caught-on-camera/video_4b036f6f-a070-5661-bca6-e5d0df15f56c.html
In a grant that includes a Georgia case, SCOTUS yesterday has added the issue of Title VII protections and whether they extend to LGBT employees to its merits cases to be argued during the next term (beginning October 2019).
Court to take up LGBT rights in the workplace (h/t Amy Howe via SCOTUSblog.com)
Interesting short term rental case. https://lawoftheland.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/ga-supreme-court-dismisses-criminal-zoning-violation-for-short-term-property-rental/
Since the Hawks didn’t make the playoffs… you can all be part of Dear Nation this spring.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/playoffs/2019/04/22/bucks-sweep-pistons-first-series-victory-since-2001/3546060002/
Fear the Dear.
On the offshore drilling article, you’d think that Georgia would be a national leader in alternative energy by now. Georgia doesn’t have much in the way of coal or natural gas and no one wants offshore drilling so the fossil fuel advocates with their “drill baby drill/dig baby dig” agenda doesn’t benefit Georgia economically. It only benefits Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alaska and the other states with large fossil fuel reserves. The massive federal subsidies that the fossil fuel industries get is basically a wealth transfer from the non-fossil fuel states to the fossil fuel ones that greatly benefit their economies but don’t do a thing for the rest of us. If that money could be redirected to alternative energy projects in our own states as well as locally relevant alternative fuel research at our universities – too bad only Georgia Tech and UGA have the advanced research capacity in this area for a state our size but that is another story for another day – then that way we could help our own economy instead of pouring more money into Texas, Alaska and the other petrol states. (Not to mention Venezuela, Saudi Arabia … but again another story for another day.)
But between the left who only sees alternative energy as a Trojan horse as part of a larger environmental agenda to take over and “globalize” our economy i.e. the Green New Deal and “conservatives” who see giving subsidies to the fossil fuel industries instead of alternative energy as “the free market at work”, it seems that no one is willing to pursue that path on either a state or federal level.