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a really odd on fun fact.

Um, but he walks at campaigns and kind of walks this line of being able to have cross aisle conversations with Republicans.

So that's one of the things he kind of caught flack for a little bit during the primary was saying, you know, I'm willing to work with everybody.

But it's a good strategy post-primary when you're trying to win over some, like I said, those middle-of-the-road voters.

And the lieutenant governor is an interesting position.

It kind of sets the tone for the Senate, makes key committee assignments, calls people to the well.

But all bets are off this cycle.

tell us what exactly is a tax allocation district?

Well, I mean, it's three words that have a major impact on the future of the city.

So when Mayor Dickens took office for his second term, he made this his what he called defining work of his next four years.

It's called the Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative.

And just for context, he grew up in Adamsville on the southwest side of the city, a historically underserved area.

And his administration points to stark disparities between more of the northern affluent neighborhoods and the south and the west sides, like literacy rates, incarceration rates, and even life expectancy rates among children and how different they are based on the money that is going to those areas.

So he wants to utilize this funding, this TAD extension funding, for things like light rail on the Southside Beltline.

So tell us a little bit more about, you know, the hard the hard time he's he's been having because I know there's been a lot of back and forth.

It's not front and center in these partisan debates we talk about in both parties, but it is one of these bipartisan measures that could bring dramatic change to Georgia's education system.

Yeah, I mean, literacy overhaul isn't the catchiest headline, right, Craig? But that was a major investment.

And when we saw, we just talked earlier about Governor Kemp slashing some line items from the budget.

This was a 70, more than $70 million initiative to put elementary schools, literacy coaches in schools, just for the coaches alone across the state, $70 million.

And I think it's also looking at a shift about the focus that we put on how students learn at a young age.

I think that students learn in different ways and at different paces.

And when you have a programs and curriculums that you can use to bolster those numbers, it could have a good and sweeping impact on students across the state.

And there are some concerns this will lead to a slight increase in prices if folks tend to round up more than round down.

I could see that.

Mm-hmm, because you have...

We had 30 minutes to fill.

He only had, you know, a 60-second opener, a 60-second closer, and a one chance to ask a question of the empty podium.

So myself and my other panelist, Rahul Bali with WABE, spent some time, you know, how many questions can we gather to make sure that we don't run out of questions and just are left with a bunch of time, rather.

Um, so I did think it went, you know, as well as a debate could have gone with just one candidate.

You always want both candidates there.

Unpack that a little bit for us.