Juneteenth
Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, an order was read in Texas on June 19, 1865 announcing that all slaves were free in Texas and throughout the United States. Part of the order read: “This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.”
- President Trump announces his 2020 re-election campaign
- Georgia probably will not be a part of Super Tuesday, most likely due to new voting machines.
- 30,000 poor elderly or disabled Georgians slated to lose Medicaid
- Georgia receives Gold Shovel award by Area Development Magazine “for generating the most jobs and investment in the United States for the eight to twelve million population category.”
- Casting call issued for actors (professional and amateur) for an Amazon series being filmed in Savannah
- Georgia football team makes annual visit of children battling cancer
- In other Bulldwag news, over 1,250 fans said they would take a bullet to the thigh in exchange for a National Championship (also known as the Tiger-Tide trophy) in football
- Georgia Tech announces that Macon-Bibb County and Columbus received Georgia Smart Communities Challenge Grants to allow the two cities to develop pilot projects
- Former V.P. Joe Biden comments on relationship with Herman Talmadge
- Speed bumps in town of 87 people leads to much debate
- Seniors in Bulloch County calling for exemption from school taxes