Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 14

Good morning! Today is the second legislative day. If you’d like to play along at home, here’s the Adjournment Resolution with the schedule through early February.

• If you wear a seatbelt, you have a much better chance of staying alive in a car crash. The chances of a seatbelt bill surviving the Senate? Eh, maybe not as high.
• The General Assembly will consider an additional cut to the state income tax, building on the cut that was passed in 2018 that was predicated on an assumption of a windfall from the federal tax cuts that never materialized AHEM, so perhaps that is why we are having some budget issues. Anyway, yeah, we’ll be talking tax cuts.
• The General Assembly will be knee-deep in the state’s budget next week. Fulton County is taking a breather.
• Sate legislators may determine the fate of the Glynn County Police Department.
• An excellent long read from Max Blau featuring coal ash, a lawsuit against Georgia Power, and drinking water safety.
• This year’s flu season is particularly hard on young people.
• Here’s how a complete census count helps Georgia.
• Savannah’s Mercer House – that’s the one from Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, Zoomers – is set for restoration.