Good morning, and happy National Son and Daughter Day! Here are some ways to celebrate, but also call your parents.
Now, on to the news!
Pat Conroy
- This new, totally unnecessary COVID surge in Georgia has predictably overwhelmed our hospitals. (Alternate link.)
- Meanwhile, Georgia universities are headed back to class this fall without a vaccination or mask requirement, which is a scary combination in a state with a dismal 41% vaccination rate.
- Two coaches in Jonesboro have been charged with murder and child cruelty in the death of a high school basketball player.
- A grand jury in Cherokee County has indicted 14 people for running a human trafficking ring under the guise of a fake charity.
- The woman in the U.S. House of Representatives who believes the people of Northwest Georgia are beholden to her – and not the other way around – is suspended from Twitter again.
- Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites has been around for 90 years.
Alice Walker
- In some good news, COVID vaccinations have doubled across the United States since last month.
- California has become the first state to mandate COVID vaccinations for teachers.
- Some Florida school administrators are risking their salaries to defy Governor Ron DeSantis’ anti-mask executive order.
- Kathy Horchul will be New York’s first female governor. (Good riddance, Andrew Cuomo!)
- A former college criminal justice instructor has been charged with setting California’s second-largest fire ever.
- The Texas House Speaker has signed arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state to avoid a quorum over a voter suppression bill. (Alternate link.)
- China has sentenced a Canadian businessman to 11 years in prison for spying. (Alternate link.)
- A British embassy worker accused of spying for Russia has been arrested in Germany.
- The Taliban has seized three more provincial cities in Afghanistan.
- Russia and China are holding combined military drills over concerns about Afghanistan.
- At least 65 people have died in the Algerian wildfires.
Flannery O’Connor
- A dog in Connecticut ran over two miles from home hoping to find her owner at work.