The Dougherty County Board of Elections met Friday to determine the fate of Rev. Lorenzo Heard and his candidate for the Dougherty County Board of Education At-Large seat race. A paper was circulated by Heard supporters alleging racism as a motivation for rejecting Heard’s notice of candidacy.

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Heard’s supporters claim racism, but was it?

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Tom Knighton

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Tom Knighton is the publisher of The Albany Journal. In November, 2011, he became the first blogger to take over a newspaper anywhere in the world. In August of 2012, he made the difficult decision to take the Journal out of print circulation and become an online news agency, a first for the Albany area.

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