Good morning! “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” is 50 years old! Here he is persuading (the initially prickly) Senator Joe Pastore (D-RI) why it is so important to fund educational public television: The St. Simons Land Trust received an anonymous $1 million donation. President Carter discusses his fears during his wife Rosalynn’s “very serious” surgery this weekend.
Happy Mardi Gras! Here’s your soundtrack for today. Pro bono publico. Columbus native, Clark Atlanta alum, and the High Museum’s Driskell Prize winner Amy Sherald painted former First Lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait. Here’s an in-depth interview with Sherald. The Trump budget plan includes money for the Port of Savannah. Is it enough? The flu
Good morning! It’s one week until Mardi Gras! Applause. It’s swung from “Please clap,” to the notion that to not clap is akin to treason. Well. Today is Girl Scout Day at the Capitol. A couple of things: more than 300 Girl Scouts will be at the Capitol today, and they are serious about naming
Good morning! It’s Legislative Day 12. Governor Deal announced today that his wife, Sandra Deal, will undergo treatment for breast cancer. It was, thankfully, detected in its early stages during the First Lady’s annual mammogram. (Ladies of a Certain Age: get a mammogram!) Somewhere in West Point, there’s a millionaire who either doesn’t know he’s
Good morning! It’s Legislative Day 8. Savannah officials try to determine what, exactly, defines a local business. Spelman received a $5 million donation from a philanthropic Boston couple. “Rancor fatigue” might be one reason GOP lawmakers in the South are slightly less ardent about religious liberty and/or bathroom legislation. Apparently in Lowndes County, the penalty
Good morning! It’s cold. In 1946, a teenaged Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote what is thought to be his only letter to the editors of the Atlanta Constitution. At yesterday’s MLK Day service, Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Senior Pastor Rev. Raphael Warnock called on the president to “repent” his “volcanic eruption of hate speech spewing out
Oh. Well, then. Meanwhile, it’s Special Election Day! Georgians living in SD 17 and HD 111 vote today to determine who they’ll send to the General Assembly to fill the seats vacated by former Senator Rick Jeffares and former Representative Brian Strickland; Strickland is one of the candidates for SD 17. For your consideration: The
Good morning! Apparently, it’s Tuesday – but there’s really just one story to discuss today. The political repercussions of the Georgia/Alabama game. It’s also kind of a big day for Atlanta’s new mayor. I’m certain today will be productive for most Georgians, so get back to it – and feel free to discuss the game in
Good morning! Something is rotten in the county of Paulding. Like, it genuinely stinks. A breakdown of the Atlanta airport snafu/cluster/communications debacle. The ACLU contends that Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-West Point) “illegally” blocked people on Facebook. Longtime Cobb Chamber CEO David Connell retired yesterday. A critic’s review of the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in
Good morning! Happy birthday, Baker County! The PSC moved the date of their Plant Vogtle decision from February to next Thursday. You can watch the live hearing here. Jeff Bezos to the white courtesy phone, please. A Los Angeles-based developer has a massive plan for The Gulch in downtown Atlanta. If you’re flying out of
