A national embarrassment only Northwest Georgians can fix. Plus the fastest 90 seconds of news in the nation.

The fastest 90 seconds of news in the nation:

• First-time jobless claims in Northwest Georgia top 25,000 in May -- which is a major improvement compared to April. Our work force did recover last month, the labor department reports.
• Georgia saw a spike in coronavirus deaths for the week ending June 17, the highest total since late April. Local positive test results continue to climb as well.
• The building that's home to Jamwich on Broad Street has been sold; no changes planned at the restaurant.
• There will be Independence Day fireworks in Rome this year -- but with a few changes.
• Ware Mechanical Weather Center forecast: One more pleasant day and then nothing but 90s through Father's Day.
• Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports update: Shorter has a new athletics director. Plus the new turf project at Barron Stadium is complete.

Rant of the Day: For much of Wednesday, Northwest Georgia's dirty laundry flapped in the breeze in front of national and world followers of the influential political website Politico. There was Marjorie Taylor Greene under the headline about a congressional candidate being condemned by ranking fellow Republicans (background).

Politico had reviewed hours of earlier rants from Greene and labeled them “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.”

While major news on the national political scene -- shocking enough to dominate Politico's home page -- it was old news in political circles in Northwest Georgia. Early on, when Greene was pivoting from the Sixth Congressional District to run in the 12 counties of Northwest Georgia, links to those Facebook rants and conspiracy theories and such were shuffled one email at a time.

There were some whispers out there and the local Republican Party was pretty split from some of it but the campaigns rolled on.

Greene still captured 40-plus percent of all the votes cast on June 9. She carried 11 of 12 counties and didn't do that poorly in Floyd County, hometown of her now-runoff challenger Dr. John Cowan. Unless Cowan can pivot -- and quickly -- in those other 11 counties, Greene will be the nominee. And she'll probably finish with two thirds of the final vote in November against Democrat Kevin Van Ausdal, maybe even more.

That's despite the national audience that read the Politico piece. Or the CNN column on her QAnon leanings. Or the coverage just before the final primary vote about her gun-totting ad being too sensitive for Facebook.

Now it is headlined across the nation once again. The question is: What is Northwest Georgia going to do about it?