HUD AWARDS OVER $25 MILLION $TO ASSIST HOMELESS PROGRAMS IN GEORGIA
Tweet PART OF ADMINISTRATION PLAN TO PREVENT & END HOMELESSNESS Funding comes one week before national one-night count of homeless persons and families ATLANTA U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded nearly $25,411,127 in funding to keep 137 of local homeless assistance programs in Georgia operating in the coming year. [...]
Read More →Credit Union Teller Sentenced for Embezzlement Scheme
Tweet Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that today Lisa R. Cox, age 48, a resident of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, to 36 months’ imprisonment on Count One and [...]
Read More →Finkelstein gets Judge Marshall DQ’d from policeman’s molestation case
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Albany police officer Vincent Romone Wadley’s child molestation conviction is in limbo following Judge Richard Porter of Cairo’s ruling disqualifying Dougherty Superior Court Judge Denise Marshall from the case because of her conduct during the trial, court records show.
Read More →Actions Taken by the Georgia Construction Industry Licensing Board Division of Electrical Contractors at its January 5 Meeting
Tweet Macon, Ga.—The Georgia Construction Industry Licensing Board Division of Electrical Contractors held its meeting on Wednesday, January 5, 2011. The Board approved 72 electrical non-restricted applications for licensure, four electrical restricted applications for licensure and 31 electrical applications for licensure by reciprocity.
Read More →Statement on transition of employees
Tweet Issued by Jackie Ryan, AVP, Phoebe January 21, 2011 The Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) calls for employment of the Palmyra personnel to end at closing. It also contemplates that those same employees will become Phoebe employees at closing. Under the agreement, Phoebe was required to submit employees who did not meet eligibility by a [...]
Read More →Best websites of 2011
Tweet Here goes my “Best Webs of 2010”, a follow-up to my best of 2009 reflections. By best, I don’t necessarily mean the largest traffic counts or the sites that garnered the most design awards, but those that may intrigue or be useful to my technically oriented readers. They must also meet my standards for [...]
Read More →Let’s revisit consolidation
Tweet Last session, the General Assembly came within a hair’s breadth of giving the citizens of Albany and Dougherty County the opportunity to vote on consolidation. Had state Sen. Freddie Powell Sims done the right thing and either changed the wording from “partisan” elections to “non-partisan” elections or else submitted the bill sooner, we would [...]
Read More →Civic Center needs college hoops again
Tweet Good job Albany Civic Center and Dougherty County School System. Holding those high school basketball games at the Civic Center is a step in the right direction. Now the city needs to go to the next level and invite some colleges to hold neutral site games in the facility. Ask Albany State to play [...]
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