August 27, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 26
Good morning!
- Throughout Georgia, upstanding citizens are qualifying to run for local office. Can a convicted felon run for office? Well, that depends on how you define “moral turpitude” and whether you receive a pardon. And running for office isn’t the same thing as holding office. It’s complicated. Just…watch the clip.
- How Georgia’s cities got their names. If you’re not familiar with Nancy Hart, well, I’ll just say she was legitimately one bad mother, and woe be unto you if you kill a woman’s last turkey and then have the nerve to make her roast it for you.
- Health insurance premiums for USG employees will increase in 2020.
- House Bill 511, which will improve transit for rural and elderly Georgians, will return in the 2020 legislative session.
- The death rate for Georgians who are developmentally or mentally disabled continues to increase.
- Pinewood Studios may be relocating, but the Pinewood Forest New Urbanist “concept town” is full steam ahead.
- Crime is on the rise in Savannah to the tune of a 32% increase so far in 2019.
- More disturbing Sterigenics news.
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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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How is it that Sterigenics is still open? I am a small business owner so I am sympathetic to not shutting them down without good cause, but we are risking continuing exposure of the neighborhood to dangerous toxins. If we are waiting for a study to determine cause/effect, shouldn’t we shut them down in the meantime? If it turns out they are not at fault (seems unlikely!) pay them out of the rainy day fund!
Some seek investigation as to why WebMD, and not EPA and/or EPD, broke the story to the public. I’ll save them the trouble. Trump wants the EPA eliminated, and Georgia is No.1 for business for a reason.
I make one sarcastic comment on a post on a local facebook group and all of Dade County has lost it’s mind. We got people screaming for zoning. The county has put a moratorium on industrial development for 120 days. They are trying to pass an ordinance that is not zoning but can tell you what you can and can’t do on your property. It is hilarious. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2019/aug/23/dade-county-georgia-prepares-possibility-indu/501932/
“I’m an environmentalist. A lot of people don’t understand that. I think I know more about the environment than most people,” — Trump’s answer to a question on climate change at the G7.
Domestically the imputation is that you’re a liar to people telling you what you saw with your own eyes or heard with your own ears isn’t what you saw or heard.
Internationally the world appears to moving on, according the US the respect due a malicious narcissistic bully with the capability and disposition for capricious admonishment and hurt.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/americas-allies-seem-to-be-moving-on-without-trump/ar-AAGmC1q?ocid=spartanntp
No doubt G7 leaders are brimming with enthusiasm at the prospect of command performances at the next meeting at Trump property Doral, the club where you can check anytime, but you can never leave.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-members-of-trump-s-doral-golf-club-may-wait-the-rest-of-their-lives-for-refunds-from-the-president/ar-AAGc6wo?li=AA30Nm
Of the 17 expected ‘battle ground states for 2020 Texas and Georgia have only net positive approve rating for the president. I question some of these as actual battle grounds, like Minnesota, New Mexico, Georgia and Texas..
Also, cus I like graphs.
https://www.axios.com/trump-approval-rating-swing-battleground-states-d6ffffe7-07e2-4398-90d6-14c1f97bf62c.html