January 21, 2021 7:53 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, January 21, 2021
Someone in Georgia is luckier than the rest of us as a ticket bought in the Peach State was the $1 million winner last night.
Peaches
- New committee assignments if you missed them
- Apparently people are already upset with Ossoff & Warnock.
- Ballots didn’t omit PSC race
- Georgia remains on the map in new WH administration
- Georgia lawyer said he kicked in Pelosi’s door, she could’ve been ‘torn into little pieces’
- Judges: pandemic delays could means years of backlogs
- Georgia officials hope pay raise will slow corrections officer turnover
- The Spark That Changed Georgia’s Politics: Grassroots Activism
- Jerry Summers: Georgia’s 3 Governors Controversy
Jimmy Carter
- On his way out the door, Trump revokes ethics order barring former aides from lobbying
- Bernie stole the show yesterday.
- The first person to seek refugee status for being non-binary
Covid & Such
- Did shutting down outdoor dining contribute to California’s COVID-19 surge?
- FAA approves Iowa airport’s virus screenings, a possible model for others
- Unions wade into debate over requiring COVID vaccine
- NBA to enforce rules forbidding hugs, handshakes with midcourt security
Sweet Tea
- An interesting news-big tech battle brewing in Australia
- Another study on weed + teen suicide
- Iron Man…in the Army?
- Just sharing this bad boy as a reminder that people post it on Facebook out of concern for our own coast.
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Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay person nominated for the cabinet. He has his confirmation hearing today.
“Good transportation policy can play no less a role than making possible the American Dream, getting people and goods to where they need to be,” Buttigieg said. “But I also recognize that at their worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities in transportation can reinforce racial and economic inequality, by dividing or isolating neighborhoods and undermining government’s basic role of empowering Americans to thrive.”
It is underway now: