We almost had Medicaid expansion ... except of course not

Business acumen means opening a place because you know that you not only have customers pining for your service, but that they also have an ability to pay for it. Georgia Republicans' push to loosen the state's 'certificate of need' regulations to allow for more hospitals to be built (like in Butts County on property the Lt. Governor's father owns - for example) makes no sense when the state's lost rural, suburban and urban hospitals in the decade it hasn't accepted federal Medicaid expansion dollars. Democrats gave it one more go, and in committee Republicans deadlocked the vote at 7-7, with the committee chair swapping out a potential 'yes' vote for a 'no.' Instead, they want to give a failing program one more year to fail. With the World Cup coming to Atlanta in 2026, there's again interest in downtown revitalization. Bill Tory opines as such in the AJC. Here's a thought, though: we're this major convention and event city, and yet our venues and most of our downtown hotels of size aren't connected by transit in any way. Maybe address that?