Morning Reads for Tuesday, October 15

Good morning! If you haven’t had a moment to read Holly’s piece on knowledge and learning (and book burning) in Georgia, that should be your first stop. The Golden Ray will have to be disassembled in the St. Simons Sound. The Libertarian Party of Georgia is appealing a ruling that upholds Georgia’s ballot access laws.

What are we cheering for?

This week’s Courier Herald column: Sometimes it takes a swift kick in the gut to assess where we are, why we do what we do, and what we should be doing going forward.  For sports fans in Georgia, we’ve been provided ample opportunity.  It was a week that began and ended with embarrassing losses by

Be BRAVE this Indigenous Peoples Day!

I never even heard of Ryan Helsley before last week.   The Cardinals pitcher apparently caused an upset in the athletic world after he boldly forced people to acknowledge something they already knew.  The Brave’s tomahawk chop is offensive and reinforces a stereotype created centuries ago.  Per usual, sports fans were more upset that their team

Morning Reads for Monday, October 14, 2019

Coca-Cola UNITED to build new facility in Tift County, creating 200 jobs. Remember the cargo ship off the coast that overturned? Well, it can’t be turned upright, so it’s being disassembled. To save rural hospitals, Georgia requires classes for CEOs and board members.  An author’s second appearance at a Georgia university has been cancelled after

3M More Atlantans By 2050 Would Push Us To The Brink. Oh Yeah, And Where’s The Water?

Prepare to get really, really, cozy in Metro Atlanta. The Atlanta Regional Commission predicts an addition 2.9 million people could move to Atlanta by 2050. That’s the equivalent population of Denver. We’ll also have a substantially less white metropolitan area (47.5% now down to 31% if the forecasts are correct) with a total population of

Morning Reads for Friday, October 11, 2019

LawDawgs! (And GSU, too.)  Let the chill bumps commence. Always wondered what was under the hat. “As illiterates…” applies more and more these days.    Like that one? Here’s another shot of VDH.  Can humans regrow cartilage?  Inquiring shoulders want to know. Every Californian pays the price of their lovely state lacking basic forestry skills.   Honestly, Comey

And So It Goes….

What a heartbreaking game. Man….we say that an *awful* lot with Georgia sports, but this one hurts. We say that an awful lot too. The Atlanta Braves, who had a more spectacular season than the “experts” said they would have, ended their postseason bid tonight in a spectacularly devastating do-or-die Game 5. We died. Some

Walter C. Jones Hired to Educate Voters

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office has issued the following press release in regards to the hiring of Walter C. Jones to educate voters on the new voting machines in Georgia: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Tuesday he has hired a long-time media professional to head the effort to educate Georgians about the state’s