Happy Donald Duck Day to you all! On this day in 1934, Donald Duck made his first appearance in “The Wise Little Hen.”
Let’s get on to the news.
Pat Conroy
- Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has filed paperwork for another bid at the office. (Alternate link.)
- The Biden Administration has flagged another part of Governor Brian Kemp’s Medicaid waiver plan, delaying its implementation further.
- Two Republican state senators and the GAGOP chair are in Arizona this week to tour the state’s widely discredited ballot review. (Alternate link.)
- The Justice Department is looking to shut down an Irwinton tax preparer for submitting fraudulent returns.
- Some Loganville residents are against, of all things, a new library paid for from state funds. (Alternate link.)
- Here is the list of all of the earmarks for Georgia that would be funded in the U.S. House’s version of the transportation bill. (Continues through page 85.)
Alice Walker
- President Joe Biden’s talks with Republicans have fallen short of a deal on infrastructure. (Alternate link.)
- The president has headed to Europe for visits with allies and Putin.
- For a second year, most U.S. police forces have declined to share data on their use of force. (Alternate link.)
- 70% of Americans now support same-sex marriage.
- The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that tribal police forces can detain non-Natives on reservation land while they wait for non-tribal backup.
- Senate Republicans have blocked a bill targeting the gender pay gap.
- Here’s a good explainer of the Biden Administration’s push to find COVID’s origin.
- The U.S. is withdrawing executive orders aimed at banning TikTok and WeChat.
- Socialist Pedro Castillo is closer to claiming victory in Peru, though his rival is still submitting legal challenges.
- The Afghan government and Taliban leaders have met in Doha to discuss peace.
- A Belarus opposition leader has called for an international investigation into the country’s government.
- El Salvador has become the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
Flannery O’Connor
- Cicadas grounded a plane yesterday carrying several U.S. journalists headed to Europe to cover President Biden’s trip.