A new CDC director is nominated

By Jill Nolin | Editor

By Ross Williams

If you’re not registered to vote in next month’s primary election, you have until Monday to mark that off your to-do list. Registering by Monday will allow you to vote in the May 19 primary, where candidates from the two major parties will compete for a place on the ballot for November’s election.

By Ashley Murray

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will nominate Erica Schwartz, who served in the president’s first administration, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a seat left vacant for months after his last director said she was ousted in a rift over childhood vaccines.

By Mary Landers, The Current

The stark white of an Oreo cookie’s filling comes from titanium dioxide, a valuable mineral found in deposits along Trail Ridge, just east of the Okefenokee Swamp. That unlikely cookie-swamp connection prompted a consortium of Georgia students to pressure Oreo manufacturer Mondelez, the Chicago-based multinational maker of candies, beverages and snacks, to pledge to never source titanium dioxide from the Okefenokee area because of the threat this mining poses to the swamp.

By Jacob Fischler

Democrats on a U.S. House spending panel, including Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop, slammed President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to farm and nutrition programs Thursday, as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pledged to collaborate with members of both parties to address their concerns.

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