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USDA Celebrates Native American Heritage Month: Vilsack Highlights Support for Native Americans

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Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commemorated Native American Heritage Month and recognized USDA programs that strengthen Native Americans and their communities. “This month, USDA is highlighting its support for Native Americans and the Department’s longstanding partnership with Tribes and tribal members,” Vilsack said. “We take [...]

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Georgia Water Coalition names “DirtyDozen” exposing the 12 worst offenses to Georgia’s water  

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Press Releases, Uncategorized  /   Comments

Tweet Special to the Journal Today, Georgia’s leading water protection group  named its “Dirty Dozen” for 2012, exposing the worst offenses to Georgia’s water. The  sites range from an unnecessary reservoir in northeast Georgia to a tire dump in  southwest Georgia.      The Georgia Water Coalition is a consortium of 175 conservation and environmental  organizations, hunting and fishing groups, businesses, and faith‐based organizations  that have been working to protect Georgia’s water since 2002. Collectively, these  organizations represent more than 300,000 Georgians.     “This list not only highlights some of the most egregious water pollution problems in our  state, but also calls attention to state policies that harm our rivers and waste our tax  dollars,” said April Ingle, executive director at Georgia River Network. “The sites on this  list are examples of Georgia’s failures to protect our water, our fish and wildlife and our  communities.”    Topping the list for the second year in a row is the Ogeechee River where a textile  manufacturing plant’s toxic discharge led to the death of some 38,000 fish in May 2011.  A hazardous waste site adjacent to Atlanta’s Hartsfield‐Jackson International Airport,  Glades Reservoir proposed near Gainesville, a Flint River groundwater injection  experiment near Albany, Richland Creek Reservoir proposed in Paulding County and  Rayonier’s pulp mill in Jesup round out the top six. 

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ASU Social Work Students Attend Rainbow PUSH Coalition Conference

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Education  /   Comments

Back row: Kimberly West, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Attorney Janis Mathis and Sabrina Alexander Front row: Jasmine Murphy, Brittany Welch, Tanequa Dorsey, Luticha Haley, Dr. Irma Gibson, Kayla Watson, Latrina Kendrix –Sims, and Kamri Williams.

Tweet by Pearlie M. Bowser ASU undergraduate and graduate social work program students networked with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and community and national representatives at the Rainbow PUSH 14th Annual Creating Opportunity Conference: Fairness in the Work Place, the Marketplace and the Public Square. [...]

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HUNTER EDUCATION COURSE OPTIONS: New Online Course Added

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Community  /   Comments

Tweet HUNTER EDUCATION COURSE OPTIONS: New Online Course Added SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (Nov. 12, 2013) – Still in need of a hunter education course before deer season is over? The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division offers ways to make that happen: an 8-hour online or CD course followed by a 2-hour review [...]

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SIAC Championship Tickets Available at ASU

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Sports  /   Comments

Tweet by Stan McCormick, Sports Information Director The 2013 SIAC Football Championship tickets are available at The Albany State University Cashier’s Window and New Student Union. Tickets are $20.00 for adults and ASU students. Youth tickets, ages 12 and under, will be $10.00 and sold only at Lakewood Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia prior to kick-off. [...]

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Chehaw Introduces Two Baby Kangaroos

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Community  /   Comments

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Tweet Chehaw is excited to announce that two new baby kangaroos are now out of their mother’s pouches. One baby was born to Durry Jr., and is her first successful birth. The other was born to Arniebounce Pants and makes this her second successful birth. The joeys can be seen wrestling and sparring with the [...]

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FEDERAL ARREST AND SEARCH WARRANTS SERVED IN ALBANY AND DAWSON, GEORGIA

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Press Releases, Uncategorized  /   Comments

Tweet Special to te Journal Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that law enforcement officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Georgia State Patrol (GSP) Post 40, Albany Probation, and Albany Police Department served federal arrest warrants in Albany and Dawson, [...]

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Senators Burr, Coburn, Chambliss Reintroduce Public-Private Employee Retirement Parity Act

By   /  November 13, 2013  /  Government  /   Comments

Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Tom Coburn (R-OK), and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) reintroduced the Public-Private Employee Retirement Parity Act to address long-term liabilities facing the federal government. The legislation would end the defined benefit pension portion of the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) for new federal [...]

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