The Morning Dispatch: The Georgia Home Stretch

Plus: California's modest tech exodus.

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Happy Wednesday! Just because the Senate might be working on New Year’s Day does not mean we will be! Quick reminder that tomorrow’s TMD will be the last of the week.

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked an attempt by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to unanimously approve a House-passed bill that would increase the direct payments in the latest coronavirus relief package from $600 per person to $2,000 per person. Instead, McConnell introduced legislation tying the $2,000 provision to a full repeal of Section 230 protections for social media companies and the creation of a bipartisan commission to study the integrity and administration of the 2020 election. The combined legislation—which would satisfy all of President Trump’s recent demands—is all but assured to fail if it is brought up for a vote.

  • A Colorado man in his 20s with no recent travel history was discovered to have the United States’ first confirmed case of the seemingly more contagious coronavirus variant circulating in the United Kingdom, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said yesterday.

  • Luke Letlow, who was elected to Congress in December and was set to be sworn in next month, died yesterday after announcing he was COVID-positive December 18. He was just 41 years old.

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  1. Sage Mitchell

    I have a question - if Georgia's runoff votes are not certified by Jan 6 (and I don't see how they could be), would the two seats be vacant for the electors' certification?

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    Cornelius O’Brien

    I hear San Diego is beautiful and sunny all the time. I’ve been there 3 times and never seen the sun. Had a good time but dinner at the Hotel Del Was punctuated by marines practicing low visibility helicopter flights on the coast. I split time in Daytona and Gainesville and the Ocala National Forest catches fire and leaves me shrouded in smoke most of the trip. I go to Fort Worth and an ice storm arrives. I go to Flagstaff in summer and the temps drop to 30 and Walmart doesn’t have a hoodie. I’ll stay put and spare everyone else the clouds that follow me.

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    Azlefty

    I am looking forward to not working. Or, more precisely, having the luxury of working without having to worry about whether or not what I do has economic value in a market economy. When I do, I hope to have the opportunity of living in many of the places listed below, for a year or so, and then possibly moving on and trying another place. I have yet to convince my wife of the brilliance of this plan.

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  4. deathtomcmansions

    I sometimes say: If low taxes and low cost of living were the main factors, you would move to Mississippi. But then you'd have to, you know, LIVE in Mississippi. (Apologies to anyone from Mississippi who really likes it there.) I couldn't live there, ever, just because of the summer.

    And if the flavor of a place is incurious, I couldn't live there either.

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    Joe Lancaster

    I’ve been telling my clients for 40 years - California is a great place to visit and a terrible place to live (unless you’re fabulously wealthy) and Texas is a terrible place to visit and a great place to live. It’s still true. I love California, but I’m not wealthy enough to have any decent quality of life there. I love living in Texas.

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  6. deathtomcmansions

    I like where I am. We scoped out several possible places before I retired from the military.

    We hate, hate, hate humid hot summers. Cold is fine if well supplied with the appropriate outerwear and useful tools for both snow sports and necessary activities. Neither my husband or I (and therefore our kids) are at all interested in being small town people, but we don't want to live downtown in a city either. Near enough for a day trip or overnight, but not in it. So we found a great, near-perfect spot and don't plan to move again.

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    Angie

    Well, where would I live if I could live anywhere? At my age, and inability to retire any time soon, nor the money to relocate...It doesn't' really matter..when I was younger I might have for a job...
    now, I would most likely only move if it involved romance/love and someone to share the rest of my life with...and even then it gets complicated...so, it would have to be really special I guess, but, I would do it in a heartbeat for the right person

    The places I have been to that I enjoyed are not always places I would live in...I run hot, but, I find my tolerance of extreme cold is a lot less than it used to be...but, high humidity also about kills me...I loved Vegas and NYC, but, wouldn't live in either place...I am beyond the big city phase...where I live now is semi-rural...and we have all four seasons, though I could do with less snow...so, somewhere relatively quiet, not too small, but not big either...and still close enough to a big city to be able to go there for big city stuff, like I do now

    I love Windsor, ON, to be honest, all within my parameters and very nice people and by the water and lovely scenery, close to the Big City... but, don't think I would move out of the country, except for the aforementioned situation...lol..

    So, that was a rambling response...the bottom line seems to be, that even with its disadvantages, not much motivates me to move from here, though I am open to things changing...all my family is here, but, I can visit...lol..we actually don't see each other much now... their lives are very different than mine... I think people and social stuff apparently matters to me the most, and who I am with...I would never move anywhere by myself

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      cheerio

      I live in the suburbs now but I think I would be happiest in a village that is walkable-- to the post office, library and grocer. However, my suburb is fairly well placed between shopping/highways, local farms/orchards, the city and village. So I think it is interesting you bring up city/not city/country.

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        Angie

        I technically live in what is called a "township" attached to the city proper...we have a Dollar General, a Little Ceasars, a neighborhood bar, and a Convenient store with a gas station attached down the street, but anything else is about a 15-25 minute drive...lol.about a 1/2 mile south of me starts the farms....lol.

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  8. Marc Whipple

    Michael Flynn selling QAnon gear is a perfectly appropriate ending to 2020.

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    Dennis

    I would live in CA, on the coast, where I spent the first 60 years of my life. I have been living in a small southern AZ city for the past 22 years. My regret at leaving CA has, over the past two decades, reached the vanishing point.

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    Timothy Giblette

    There is no ideal place to live year round. Therefore, the best solution is to live in Minnesota in the summer and Florida in the winter

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