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.