Morning headlines
April 10, 2008 at 10:50 am by Russell McLendon in NewsLIFE’S A BREACH: Florida company posts personal data, including social security numbers, of 10,000 to 71,000 low-income Georgians online for eight days.
J/K! Toledo attorney who fled to Georgia apologizes, avoids jail time, for disappearing for three days and then claiming she was kidnapped. The public sympathy for missing persons becomes that much more jaded, making it easier for people like this.
DOT IN DEBT: Ga. DOT faces a $1 billion shortfall. Using his trademark intractable illogic, Gov. Perdue didn’t want to allow counties to band together and levy sales taxes to fund their own transportation projects, he says, because the state DOT is in such dire financial straits.
HE’S NAMED LIKE MY NAME! NYT reports on the oddly 21st century “Googlegänger” fascination.
THE MOVIEGOER: TCM host Robert Osborne’s fourth annual Classic Film Festival opens in Athens tonight, and organizers say they want to keep the fest small and at the same venue.
MOSQUITOES: Untended yards due to the housing slump could give them more stagnant water for breeding this summer, according to ridiculously alliterative headline.
K9 COP CATCHES BURGLAR: This is a couple days old. I don’t care. The news graphic is awesome.
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hands down, this is their best graphic yet.