The folks doing good journalism at McClatchy are doing it despite the c-suite not because of it

As a former McClatchy stringer: the c-suite pushed so many bad ideas down onto good reporters and broke them; or just canned them outright.

In press release, Fulton county development authority chair hypes AI and emphasizes his agency’s role in subsidizing* data centers

*”supporting and financing”

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#gapol New legislation or amendment from McCormick, Richard: To repeal an act entitled "An act to retrocede the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to the State of Virginia," and for other purpose https://www.congress

Former tobacco executive joins CDC senior leadership, raising concerns over industry influence Naming a former Imperial Brands executive for a CDC job is the latest example, advocates say, of tobacco industry influence in Trump administration.

A former tobacco executive quietly joined CDC senior leadership last month — a move raising concerns over the industry's influence over public health and revolving doors.

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Buckner says Bears tax break bill would also cut Illinoisans’ property taxes by lowering them before raising them, let me start over The Illinois House yesterday voted 78-32 to pass the "megaprojects" bill that Chicago Bears execs have long been seeking to provide as much as $2 billion in tax breaks for a new stadium district…

Funding a property tax cut with more property tax cuts ... OK then. Reminder to media outlets, the term "tax certainty" is propaganda that the Bears PR team made up to make its subsidy request more politically palatable: STOP REPEATING IT. buff.ly/3GJzf1i

#gapol Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp executive order posted (date posted may be later than date signed) Declaring a State of Emergency for Georgia Wildfires https://gov.georgia

Now updated thru March 2026
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(the journalism solution is that you find an unrelated tailor and be like: in your professional opinion, are there pants there?)

working on a story about the emperor being naked

I ask where the pants are; emperor's spokesman points at the naked butt cheeks and says right there, please refer further questions to the tailor who made the pants

Yes, we have made museums out of the old mansions that fronted the slave labor prisons. Celebrating the mansions, perpetuating the moonlight & magnolias myth.

Yes, we have Stone Mountain, the one Martin Luther King Jr. himself talked about in his famous speech. Still got confederates carved onnit.

IDK who yall are dealing with in other parts of the country, but in the Deep South ... yes, this still exists.

Mississippi's Confederate Heritage Month began in the year of our lord 1993 ⬇️

#atlpol Development Authority of Fulton County upcoming meeting or other item April 28 2:00PM EST https://www.developf

April 16 • Episode 189 • 1 hr 8 min Subscriber Comment Show: I Miss My Thinkpad The 404 Media Podcast (Premium Feed) >

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"New sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused."

#gapol Ga. Dept of Public Safety upcoming event BPS Notice of Meeting - May 2026 https://dps.georgia

📢📢📢"The problem with your product is that there is already too much shit"📢📢

As a long time developer, companies too often forget that code can be finished & done, not needing any more features or changes. Notepad was finished in 1995.

What has the latest Mac or windows added that you needed & couldn't be an extra app?

🗣️🗣️🗣️”users *already* hated being drowned under an endless stream of useless, buggy features even *before* LLMs.”

Georgia’s ACA enrollment plunges, raising concerns for rural hospitals - The Current More than half a million Georgians have dropped health insurance coverage due to rising premiums for federally subsidized Affordable Care Act plans, leading to concerns about the financial viability o...

More than half a million Georgians have dropped health insurance coverage amid stiff premium price hikes for federally subsidized Affordable Care Act plans

#gapol via Ariel Hart x The Current x Georgia Recorder

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Fitz Johnson prevails in PSC residency challenge - The Current A judge determined Fitz Johnson meets the legal residency requirement to run for the Republican nomination for the District 3 Georgia Public Service Commission seat.

Cobb man registered to vote at a Fulton house that he owns but where he doesn’t live

A judge rules that by Georgia law, it’s fine for him to run for office in a fulton district due to the fulton “domicile”

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every day im amazed how many clowns fit in the clown car

I wish there would be a nighttime automatic weapon shooting ban too for gods sake wtf

Guh I can’t wait till the annual burn ban

idk if anybody from georgia tech ever wrote a novel; not a good one anyway.

no i suspect my alma mater is mainly responsible for uh probably, idk, a lot of biology or electrical engineering or airplane design or whatever

But I'd also suspect a shit ton of bad or irritating things done with computers

my aunt figured out how to make screenshots & email them to me, that's how i'm getting news now

for history homies, this is the meeting about buildings to put on the National Register of Historic Places, there are some in Atlanta & some in Savannah ⬇️