Storms in the Sky, in Court, in Budgets

1. Expect a partly sunny, breezy day to turn all wet this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. There’s a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2 and 8 p.m. The high will be about 90, and the overnight low will be around 70.

2. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners has a long day today, starting with a work a session at 1:30 p.m. and continuing with a regular meeting at 7, both in the boardroom at 100 Cherokee St. in Marietta. The highlight of the work session will be the Citizen Oversight Committee’s presentation of its recommendations, expected to last three hours. We’ll be reporting live from both meetings here at Northeast Cobb Patch.

3. Make a date to come back to Northeast Cobb Patch starting at 11 a.m. for this week’s Single in Cobb column. Writer takes a serious turn with an incident involving a woman in crisis, and she wants to know how you would have handled the situation.

4. Georgia plans to roll out a new license plate design next year, and you can help make the decision. The eight options, all of which include peaches, are on display here, where you can vote on your choice with a mouse click. Voting ends July 8. Gov. Nathan Deal will announce a winner from the top three vote-getters July 15.

5. A federal judge issued an injunction Monday against two of the 23 provisions of Georgia’s anti-illegal-immigration law, due to go into effect Friday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Out for now are the provisions allowing police to investigate criminal suspects’ immigration status and to punish people for harboring illegal immigrants. Untouched provisions include a requirement for businesses to use the federal e-verify system to ensure workers are legal. The full ruling is in the PDF above.