July 24, 2019 7:13 AM
Morning Reads – Wednesday, July 24, 2019
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. – Victor Hugo
- Standard anti-abortion groups ask a federal judge to block ‘heartbeat’ bill.
- The other Georgia has some interesting people.
- Disability rights advocate and Capitol regular Dawn Alford has passed.
- Got something to say about the Georgia Hemp Farming Act rules?
- State Representative Jasperse and Senator Gooch talk rural economic development.
- How did the south shape the mindset of Accenture’s new CEO?
- The Society of Women Engineers calls GT the 7th best engineering Grad school in the country.
- The Air Force has renewed a decades long contract with GTRI dealing with it’s Electronic Warfare and Avionics programs.
- A college student is taking off a semester from college to run for Athens-Clarke County commissioner.
- NCAA.com ranks UGA #5 in heading into the preseason.
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I hope we’re all in favor of low 60s temps in July.
the spiva kid running for athens commission is interesting…the man he’s challenging was a student also when he first ran for office back in the 90’s…so circle of life or whatever…also if he is the son of the lawyer in savannah named spiva, i’d have thought he’d be a democrat…but i guess not…
The witness said she said it not him. She should resign or at the least the democrat leadership should strip her of any leadership positions and committee assignments. https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/cobb-police-charges-will-filed-georgia-lawmaker-publix-dispute/fp9t5RJLXVSOTaMnVLmHEP/
Here is an amusing tweet from 2018. @itsericathomas “At the pool @Westin and after the waitress ask the Caucasian people on both sides of me for their order and skipped over me minutes later the pool boy ask me for my room key. This can not be real right now. I am a guest too right. #racist”
Sans an apology for the Facebook post, she’s pretty much discredited as being a Jussie Smollett.
Not many people know this, but youtube has transcripts. To see them, click on the three dots below the screen. Unfortunately, they sometimes get things wrong. In a recent episode of bloggingheads.tv, Glenn Loury said “Kaepernick wants to take the knee et cetera you could go on see what I’m getting at.” The transcript said “Kapernick wants to take the neon love Ted said I could go on you see what I’m getting at.”
The circus is coming to town….
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/democratic-socialists-group-hold-convention-atlanta/BahvRDZviCOJNHwjS6dGaJ/?utm_source=newspaper&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9021583&&
Oh, who saw this coming? The police report disputes her account….
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/cobb-police-charges-will-filed-georgia-lawmaker-publix-dispute/fp9t5RJLXVSOTaMnVLmHEP/?utm_source=newspaper&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9021583&&