Morning Reads for Friday, June 14, 2019

And you thought Izzy was horrid?  Dig this.  Truist Field? Let the well-deserved mockery begin. Alum snags top job at GaTech.  Yesterday was National Seeksucker Day. Virginia school buys food truck to feed students during summer break. Yes, your toaster is really spying on you. I keep telling’ ya. …Not taking it anymore… Shameful, indeed.

#GodAnswersPrayers

From the AJC For the past 10 months, electric scooter riders have been allowed to flout the city of Atlanta’s code by riding on sidewalks and in other areas designated for pedestrians. But that leniency ended this week. Atlanta Police officers have begun warning people who use scooters to get around town that they risk being fined

Rep. Loudermilk Aims for Reducing Regulations on Community Banks and Credit Unions

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R, GA-11) issued the following press release after he re-introducing the bipartisan Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act (CRRA), H.R. 3198: “Some of the many problems that exist within our federal regulatory agencies is their continued enforcement of outdated, duplicative, or irrelevant regulations, which many of the community banks and credit unions describe as

11th District Military Academy Appointees

From a press release from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R, GA-11): Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) has issued the following statement on the students from Georgia’s 11th Congressional District who were accepted into our prestigious military service academies: “The United States has some of the most prestigious military academies in the world; and, being accepted into one

Rob Woodall’s Path for Bipartisanship Lost in Shuffle

First things first: yes he bungled his response to the Mueller Report on MSNBC. However, Congressman Woodall did outline a path for bipartisanship in D.C. Part of that involves politicians (and the chattering class) divorcing themselves from the voters “who have a thirst for something.” “We’ve got to get out of that business of celebrating