According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Rome was founded. The one in Italy, not the one in Floyd County.
On April 21, 1732, King George II signed the royal charter creating the colony of Georgia. The King’s signature did not make the charter effective as several additional steps were required.
On April 21, 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first Vice President of the United States.
On April 22, 1891, Asa Candler bought the recipe for Coca-Cola for $2300 and eventually turned its marketing from a “brain tonic” into a plain old tasty beverage.
On April 21, 1904, Ty Cobb made his debut in professional baseball for the Augusta (Georgia) Tourists in the South Atlantic League in center field; Cobb hit an inside-the-field home run and a double.
Manfred von Richthofen, known as “The Red Baron,” was killed in action on April 21, 1918, shot by either an Australian gunner or a Canadian. At the time of his death, Richthofen has shot down 80 aircraft in aerial combat.
Adolf Hitler admitted defeat in World War II on April 22, 1945.
The Atlanta Braves won their first home game in Atlanta Stadium on April 22, 1966. The Braves beat the New York Mets 8-4. It’s interesting to look back at how the Braves landed in Atlanta.
During his 1961 campaign for mayor of Atlanta, Ivan Allen, Jr. promised to build a sports facility to attract a Major League Baseball team. After winning office, Allen chose a 47-acre plot in the Washington–Rawson neighborhood for the building site, citing its proximity to the Georgia State Capitol, downtown businesses and major highways. Allen, along with Atlanta Journal sports editor Furman Bisher, attempted to persuade Charlie Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, to move his team to Atlanta. Finley was receptive and began discussing stadium design plans with Allen. The deal, however, ended in July 1963 when the American League did not approve the move.
In 1964, Mayor Allen announced that an unidentified team had given him a verbal commitment to move to Atlanta, provided a stadium was in place by 1966. Soon afterward, the prospective team was revealed to be the Milwaukee Braves, who announced in October that they intended to move to Atlanta for the 1965 season. However, court battles kept the Braves in Milwaukee for one last season.
The Blues Brothers made their worldwide debut on Saturday Night Live on April 22, 1978. Two prominent Georgia musicians, Ray Charles (born Albany) and James Brown (died Atlanta) would co-star in The Blues Brothers movie.
Former President Richard Nixon died on April 22, 1994.
Former President Jimmy Carter was appointed Distinguished Professor at Emory University on April 21, 1982. Carter holds an annual Town Hall in which he takes questions from students.
On April 21, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Israel. From the press statement released that day,
The MOA reiterates for the public record our long-standing relationship of strategic cooperation with Israel. Strategic cooperation can only succeed when there are shared interests, including the commitment to building peace and stability in the region. It reflects the enduring U.S. commitment to Israel’s security. That commitment will never flag. The U.S. commitment to peace will also not flag. The President knows that a strong Israel is necessary if peace is to be possible. He also knows that Israel can never be truly secure without peace.
Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections
Here’s the text of Governor Brian Kemp’s Monday announcement of how Georgia will go forward. I’m going to excerpt part of it, but encourage you to read both the Executive Order and the announcement.
“In the same way that we carefully closed businesses and urged operations to end to mitigate the virus’ spread, today, we are announcing plans to incrementally – and safely – reopen sectors of our economy. To help in the battle against COVID-19, healthcare facilities across Georgia voluntarily paused elective surgeries to reduce equipment and personnel shortages. This selfless act by healthcare leaders enhanced our ability to keep Georgians safe. However, many now find themselves in a difficult financial situation, some losing millions of dollars a day as they sacrifice for the greater good. This is not sustainable long-term for these facilities. Given the recent changes in modeling as it relates to surge capacity and national supply as the needs of other states diminish and following weeks of discussions with hospital leaders and medical providers, I believe Georgia is positioned to secure the necessary personal protective equipment for healthcare facilities to resume elective surgeries deemed essential.”
“Hospitals should continue discussions in their regions to ensure that patient safety – and the safety of their workforce – is prioritized. I applaud all of the hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices, physical therapists, and healthcare professionals that answered the call of duty and voluntarily closed their doors. It is impossible for me to adequately express my gratitude. And to all of the Georgians who waited on getting an important procedure to allow us to get on the other side of the curve, thank you. Your sacrifice saved lives.”
“Given the favorable data, enhanced testing, and approval of our healthcare professionals, we will allow gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians, their respective schools, and massage therapists to reopen their doors this Friday, April 24, 2020. Unlike other businesses, these entities have been unable to manage inventory, deal with payroll, and take care of administrative items while we shelter in place. This measure allows them to undertake baseline operations that most other businesses in the state have maintained since I issued the shelter-in-place order.”
“This measure will apply statewide and will be the operational standard in all jurisdictions. This means local action cannot be taken that is more or less restrictive. Over the next few days, we will continue to closely monitor existing and potential hotspots in our state. I stay in regular contact with local leaders across Georgia, especially those in Dougherty County, to ensure that we are providing adequate support. Right now, in Albany and Dougherty County, we are starting to see improvements. I talk to Commission Chairman Chris Cohilas on a regular basis to see if further action is warranted. Rest assured, if any community needs the state to intervene, we will do so with their input and partnership.”
“The next point is an important one. The entities that I am reopening are not reopening for ‘business as usual.’ Each of these entities will be subject to specific restrictions, including adherence to Minimum Basic Operations, social distancing, and regular sanitation. Minimum Basic Operations includes, but is not limited to, screening workers for fever and respiratory illness, enhancing workplace sanitation, wearing masks and gloves if appropriate, separating workspaces by at least six feet, teleworking where at all possible, and implementing staggered shifts.”
“Subject to specific social distancing and sanitation mandates, theaters, private social clubs, and restaurant dine-in services will be allowed to reopen on Monday, April 27. We will release more information in the next few days. Bars, nightclubs, operators of amusement park rides, and live performance venues will remain closed. In the days ahead, we will be evaluating the data and conferring with public health officials to determine the best course of action for those establishments. By taking this measured action, we will get Georgians back to work safely without undermining the progress that we have all made in the battle against COVID-19.”
“Today’s announcement is a small step forward and should be treated as such. The shelter in place order is still active and will expire at 11:59 PM on April 30 for most Georgians. We urge everyone to continue to follow CDC and DPH guidance by sheltering in place as often as you can. Limit your travel and limit who goes with you on errands to prevent potential exposure. If possible, wear face masks or cloth coverings when you are in public to slow the spread of coronavirus. For medically fragile and elderly Georgians, make plans to shelter in place at least through May 13 – the date Georgia’s Public Health Emergency expires. Given the heightened risk of adverse consequences from your exposure to coronavirus, this is the recommended – and safest – path forward. We will release more details as we near the end of the month so medically fragile and elderly Georgians will have adequate time to prepare. I continue to call on my fellow Georgians to protect our elderly, limit your direct contact, and help them navigate the weeks ahead. We’re helping my mom during this time to ensure that she doesn’t have to go out, and I urge Georgians to do the same for their loved ones if they’re able.”
So, here’s my summary:
1.) Hospitals and other healthcare facilities may now schedule elective procedures that are deemed essential;
2.) gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians, their respective schools, and massage therapists may open beginning this Friday, April 24th;
3.) theaters, private social clubs, and restaurant dine-in services may open beginning on Monday, April 27th;
4.) bars, nightclubs, operators of amusement park rides, and live performance venues remain closed for the time being;
5.) the shelter-in-place order will continue in effect until it expires at 11:59 PM on April 30 for most Georgians.
Nothing requires you to patronize any business you don’t want to, and businesses who are allowed to reopen are not required to.
Me, personally, and my family, will continue to be very conservative in our decision-making. I’m working out at home and letting my hair grow for the time being. Most of our food is delivered, and I personally cook it. I haven’t been in a store in five weeks, nor a restaurant, gym, or any of that other stuff, and I’m doing fine.
Item #2 looks a little goofy, doesn’t it?
Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb also raised alarms about the plans, which would allow some businesses to open under strict social distancing and health guidelines as early as Friday.
Among the businesses that would be allowed to open then are gyms, nail salons and tattoo parlors.
“Gyms, nail salons, bowling alleys, hair salons, tattoo parlors — it feels like they collected … a list of the businesses that were most risky and decided to open those first,” Gottlieb, who served in the Trump administration, said Tuesday on CNBC.
Glynn County Commission Vice Chairman Bill Brunson said the governor is undoubtedly under a lot of pressure to do something, as many businesses may not be able to recover if the restrictions in place continue much longer.
“We just need to support it and abide by it,” Brunson said.
While he didn’t necessarily get behind the decision to reopen things like massage parlors and nail salons, he said opening restaurants, even to a limited degree, will help.
“I didn’t understand the tattoo parlors and nail salons and fitness centers and bowling alleys,” Brunson said. “In some cases, people are literally touching one another.”
“But I’m glad he’s allowing the restaurants to open up and I’m sure there’s going to be very strict guidelines in the upcoming days. I’ve heard some say anything is better than being closed.”
Commissioner Peter Murphy, a retired heart surgeon, said he was not as close to the issue as the governor but expressed the same reservations as Brunson.
“I think the time has come, particularly in Glynn County with our low caseload over the past six to eight weeks, to start reopening our county and our economy,” Murphy said. “I’m not sure I would have started with the gyms, the bowling alleys and the tattoo parlors and nail salons, but that’s not our call.”
Why are those singled out for re-opening? It’s because those categories of businesses, along with dine-in restaurant services, bars and nightclubs, etc. were the only ones that were actually ordered closed. Your average office or retail shop could even remain open to the public, as long as the risk mitigation measures in the original shelter-in-place order were followed.
This gets back to my point that the order was actually much more narrow than many people thought it was.
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both called Gov. Kemp to express their support, according to CNN.
Trump and Pence complimented Kemp on his performance as Georgia governor, the source said. Another person familiar with the call said it went well.
Kemp, a staunch ally of Trump, on Monday announced Georgia would allow nail salons, massage therapists, bowling alleys and gyms to open Friday. In-person church services can resume. And restaurants and movie theaters can open Monday. His order also bars cities from imposing their own restrictions on businesses.
Georgia hit its projected peak for daily deaths on April 7, according to an influential model often cited by the White House. But that same model, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, says that Georgia shouldn’t start relaxing social distancing until after June 15 — when the state can begin considering other measures to contain the virus, such as contact tracing and isolation.
Projections show that Georgia has not seen the worst of the coronavirus, with deaths not forecast to level off until early May, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The state has recorded about 19,000 confirmed cases of the virus, with nearly 800 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon, according to state public health data.
But the state, which has a population of 10 million, has also processed some 1.1 million unemployment claims since March 14, labor officials said, a troubling indication of its collateral economic damage.
“I think this is the right approach at the right time,” Mr. Kemp, a Republican, said at a news conference of what he characterized as a cautious approach. “It’s not just throwing the keys back to these business owners.”
Georgia on Monday had recorded six days of declining new infections according to a rolling seven-day average of state Department of Public Health figures. If that continued through Friday, it would be 10 days.
Kemp said he delayed the reopening of sit-down service in restaurants and theaters until next Monday in part because, “I also think that gives us more time to continue to flatten the curve.”
But new infections and deaths are likely to continue to mount, even if at a reduced rate. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggests Georgia shouldn’t loosen social distancing until June 15. Kemp argues he’s still mandating social distancing even as businesses reopen.
The governor Monday said a decline in emergency room visits by people with flu-like symptoms indicates infections are coming down.
“The bottom line is, social distancing worked,” state Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey told a handful of reporters after Kemp’s news conference. Widespread testing is considered one cornerstone of reopening strategies.
Erick Erickson injects a bit of logic to what is likely to happen with respect to businesses reopening:
Reopening for barbershops and bowling alleys will not actually mean opening to the public most likely. It will mean opening to get employees in and ready for business. It will mean making sure the open sign is ready to be plugged in, but probably not yet turned on for most. At the same time, it will allow a lifeline for sole proprietors who can better regulate access to their businesses and take responsibility for sanitation directly.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler did a livestream meeting with Whitfield County Board of Commissioners Chairman Lynn Laughter, according to the Dalton Daily Citizen News.
Laughter said Butler received more questions than any guest she has had on the conference calls, which have been live-streamed every Tuesday and Thursday since March 26.
Butler said the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the restrictions on the economy and social activity imposed by governments to slow its spread “is unique to the point that this is the thing you’re going to compare everything else to in the future. This is that moment. There is nothing to compare it to. It is unique. It stands on itself, and everything else going forward will be judged by this moment.”
“Since March 16, we’ve seen roughly a little over a million unemployment claims filed in basically a month’s time,” Butler said. “Somebody goes, OK, so what, a million claims? Well, let’s put that in perspective. If we go back to the worst year of the recession which was in 2009, during that year we actually saw the most claims ever filed in a one-year period. The total number of claims filed in 2009 was just a little over a million claims. So we’ve basically exceeded in a month’s time that what we did in an entire year.”
Butler said the state has relaxed the requirements for unemployment benefits during the pandemic. Previously earnings over $50 a week were deducted from unemployment benefits. Butler said that limit has been raised to $300 a week.
“We’ve had several employers come to us and say ‘We want to keep them working, but we don’t have the workload. How can we do this?’” Butler said. “Well, basically right after you file partial claims for them, you can recall them. Say come back to work Monday, and as long as you’re putting in the wages that you’re paying them every week and it’s less than this formula — which is $300 plus whatever they qualify for in state benefits, minus $1 — they’re going to get that federal benefit of $600 a week, too.
“Now if they’re under $300 in wages, then they’re even better off because they’re going to collect all the money you pay them plus all the state benefit and the federal benefit. That’s a pretty good paycheck, and you can keep them working. You could actually use this as a tool to bring your folks back part time, so you’re not paying them as much. That helps your bottom line, but your employees are still getting the money, even more than they would have.”
Butler said unemployment benefits being paid during the pandemic won’t cause a firm’s unemployment insurance rates to increase as it might normally.
“So why wouldn’t you use the process?” Butler said. “It’s almost like free money. It’s not free money — I probably shouldn’t have used that term — but it’s all our money. We sent it to Washington, and they just sent it back to us. Why wouldn’t we put it in our economy?”
Butler pointed to the hospitality industry as one that could particularly benefit from this approach.
“Those are the businesses that I would definitely strongly suggest as they’re getting to where they can open back up, to use this unemployment we’ve got right now to help out their employees, help out their bottom line, bring them back in slowly. You can really benefit from this. It’s another tool we can use to help people get out of this hole we’re currently having to deal with.”
The Macon Telegraph looks at how businesses are reacting as does the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
[Dougherty County Commission Chair Chris] Cohilas said that individuals and businesses can go above and beyond. Restaurant patrons can choose to eat only at establishments where employees and other customers are following strict social distancing guidelines, for example.
“Here’s the reality: We have to dictate our own destiny,” he said. “Just because you can go get a tattoo doesn’t mean you should. Just because you can go get your nails done doesn’t mean you should.”
[Phoebe Putney Health System CEO Scott] Steiner said Phoebe is recommending that residents continue to strictly follow guidelines that include wearing a mask when out in public, frequent hand-washing, avoiding touching the face, and maintaining social distancing.
Dougherty County Commissioner Gloria Gaines urged residents to carefully weigh the risks of engaging in activities that require close contact between providers and customers.
“How are customers to know that the service providers and other customers are virus free?” she said in a statement. “Has the virus been sufficiently abated in order to risk getting your nails done? I think we know the answer to that question in Dougherty County.
“Guard your own life. I am sure the governor is not unreasonably exposing himself and his family.”
State Rep. John LaHood (R-Valdosta), who owns and operates senior living facilities writes about how Covid has affected his residents in the Valdosta Daily Times.
At Fellowship Home at Brookside in Brooks County, we took decisive action to secure our facility and protect our residents long before government-imposed restrictions took effect. Nevertheless, like many senior care settings around the country, we have had to fight this invisible enemy.
Fellowship Home leadership has consulted with many organizations, including clinical experts, public health officials, emergency medical managers, senior care professionals from around the state, as well as direct communication with Gov. Brian Kemp and his COVID response team. A unit from the Georgia National Guard has come to clean and disinfect the memory care living area from top to bottom.
Overall, the test results confirm that our prevention efforts are paying off. Crucially, the early intervention to contain the virus has kept the virus from spreading to other living areas at Fellowship Home. That data gives us working knowledge and provides some certainty to residents and their families.
Additionally, a thorough inspection by the South Georgia Medical Center Infection Control Team on Monday reassured us that we’re doing everything possible in our response.
For as long as there is a danger, we will keep these preventative measures in place and do everything within our power to stop future transmissions of the disease. We are committed to safety, to compassionate care and to transparency with our residents, their families and the community.
Gwinnett County is seeking federal Covid stimulus funding, according to the Gwinnett Daily Post.
The county commission voted Tuesday to apply for public assistance funding available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA, through the act. That money is expected to flow to Georgia through the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.
County officials are seeking the money to help with reimbursements for expenses taken to address the COVID-19 outbreak in Gwinnett. Examples of areas that the county can seek reimbursement for include transportation, community development needs such as housing and the homeless community, health care-related expenses and other general COVID-19-related expenditures.
“I appreciate the proactive work that County staff, especially our Grants Management and Finance staff, have done to capture costs that may be eligible for reimbursement and to follow closely the progress of federal funding and associated guidance” said Board of Commissioners Chairman Charlotte Nash. “We all want to be sure that we use funding appropriately in ways that will benefit the community.”
Northeast Georgia Health System is gearing up for an expected June peak, according to the Gainesville Times.
Northeast Georgia Medical Center expects to reach its staffing capacity May 4 and its peak in COVID-19 patients the first week of June.
NGHS uses a projection model developed at the University of Pennsylvania that considers several factors such as regional population, length of hospital stays and what percentage of people with COVID-19 are hospitalized.
As of Wednesday morning, the Northeast Georgia Health System was treating 126 patients with COVID-19 at its four hospitals and New Horizons Limestone, a long-term care facility. About 200 patients with the virus have been discharged since the pandemic began, according to Dr. Supriya Mannepalli, chair of NGMC’s Infection Prevention & Control Committee. She said 35% of the system’s ventilators were in use Wednesday morning.
If businesses reopen, they should take precautions to avoid further overwhelming the hospital with COVID-19 patients, [Dr. Shravan] Kethireddy said.
“Continuing to shelter in place is critical, but if people are going back to work, the main thing is to have a very strong idea of what social distancing means and what their plan is going to be at work,” he said. “… What we don’t want is a surge of 30- and 50-year-old people coming in that end up requiring two weeks in the ICU. Some may not survive when we get to capacity. That’s the real fear.”
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer looks at issues with voting during a pandemic.
Here in Muscogee County, hosts at two of the city’s 25 voting precincts had backed out of the election previously set for May 19, wary of having possibly infected voters congregate on their property. Two teams of poll workers, who tend to be older people particularly at risk from the virus, also had dropped out, fearing for their health, said Nancy Boren, executive director of the county board of elections and registrations.
Another complication involved absentee mail-in ballot applications the state sent to every active voter, to encourage voting by mail. The applications bore highlighted spaces each voter should be sure to fill out, but didn’t highlight the voter’s date of birth – which helps election workers distinguish between people with identical or similarly common names – and residents were mailing the applications back without that.
State Rep. Vernon Jones (D-DeKalb) resigned his seat in the State House after endorsing the reelection of President Trump, according to the AJC.
A little more than a week after he announced that he was endorsing President Donald Trump, Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones announced Wednesday morning that he would not complete his term.
“Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation,” Jones said in a statement. “Someone else can occupy that suite. Therefore, I intend not to complete my term effective April 22, 2020.”
“I don’t plan to leave the Democratic Party because somebody’s got to be in there to hold them accountable —hold them accountable to how they are treating black people (and) root out the bigotry,” Jones said on The Rashad Richey Morning Show shortly after announcing his resignation.
“I’m sick and tired of me and my family being attacked and harassed by the Democrat Party for putting my country before my party,” Jones said.
“I intend to help the Democrat Party get rid of its bigotry against Black people that are independent and conservative,” Jones said in the statement announcing his resignation. “I endorsed the White guy (Donald J. Trump) that let Blacks out of jail, and they endorsed the White guy (Joe Biden) that put Blacks in jail.”
Haters Gonna Hate
Georgia Democrats are screaming bloody murder. From Politico:
Democratic leaders in Georgia are denouncing Gov. Brian Kemp’s plans to begin reopening the state’s economy before the end of the week, claiming they were not adequately informed of his decision and predicting it would endanger public health.
Bottoms said she contacted Augusta, Georgia, Mayor Hardie Davis, who leads the state’s second-largest city, and reported that he also had not conferred with Kemp about the latest directive. “I’ve spoken with several leaders across this state. So we really are at a loss, and I am concerned as a mother and as the mayor of our capital city,” she said.
Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, Mayor Kelly Girtz said Tuesday those “high-contact environments” are “exactly the kind of places that we need to have maintain closure for the moment,” and told CNN he was urging his constituents not to follow the governor’s advice for reopening.
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, expressed similar frustration toward Kemp, charging Tuesday that he “didn’t consult with mayors” before settling on a schedule for reopening the state.
“The worry is that by trying to push a false opening of the economy, we risk putting more lives in danger, and there’s nothing about this that makes sense,” Abrams told MSNBC.
Albany Mayor Bo Dorough (D), who said his county has suffered about one 1 of every 7 coronavirus deaths in the state, said that Kemp made the “wrong decision.”
“Unfortunately, many areas of the state which have only a handful of infections are, I believe, too anxious to return to normalcy because they have not yet borne the brunt of this pandemic,” Dorough said on CNN.
The Democratic mayors of Atlanta and Athens Clarke County made similar remarks, as did Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the governor’s race to Kemp in 2018 and is seen as a potential running mate for former Vice President Joe Biden.
“There’s nothing about this that makes sense,” Abrams said on MSNBC.
Numbers Don’t Lie, Do They?
On Monday alone, there were 828 new cases in Georgia — the second consecutive day of increases. There were 85 coronavirus deaths in Georgia on Monday, the deadliest day yet.
President Trump’s former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert pointed to those statistics to warn that reopening the Georgia economy could lead to exponential growth in additional cases that might force another shutdown further down the road.
The White House guidelines issued last week recommended states wait until they see two weeks of a downward trajectory in cases before reopening.
Compare that to this from CBS News:
The governor’s actions line up with the phase one of reopening seen in the guidelines issued last week by President Trump’s administration. Those guidelines call for 14 days of declining COVID-19 cases.
Georgia on Monday had recorded six days of declining new infections according to a rolling seven-day average of state Department of Public Health figures. If that continued through Friday, it would be 10 days.
So, was Monday the second consecutive day of increases or the sixth days of declining new infections? Erick Erickson has some useful information:
Here are the present numbers in Georgia based on daily new cases:
April 14: 830
April 15: 634
April 16: 661
April 17: 537
April 18: 256
April 19: 157
April 20: 96
April 21: 23The trend is remarkably good. The virus is definitely declining. But highlighting that data requires me to highlight something else. [Erick Erickson] sent out the numbers on Monday and they were different.
The reason for the difference is simple — as test results come in, they are added into the numbers based on the day the test was administered, not the day the test was received. When I sent out the data on Monday, the data for April 14 had 779 cases and April 15 had 590 cases.
Adding in the tests as they come in has led to a problem. The media reports show a spike in Georgia of about 2000 cases over the weekend. It became a pretty big story and it helped drive outrage over Governor Kemp’s decision to open the state on Monday.
The spike came because test results continue to flow in from weeks ago. A test given on April 1st was backlogged and a test given on April 19th was not. They both came in on April 20th, which drove the daily total count up. The media did not note that part of the data driving that 2000 case increase was old data finally coming in. Most likely, the patient with the positive test on April 1st is already recovered, but only now is being listed as a positive test.
News from Across Georgia
The Georgia Department of Transportation has extended deadlines for the 2020 Roadside Enhancement and Beautification Council grants, according to the Valdosta Daily Times.
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