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.