Powerball jackpot raised to $550M, 2nd highest in game’s history
Tweet ATLANTA – Powerball just got even more powerful. Georgia Lottery officials announced today that strong sales have bumped Saturday’s Powerball jackpot from an estimated $475 million to an estimated $550 million. The current jackpot is the second largest in Powerball history and the third largest jackpot in U.S. history. Additionally, Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot [...]
Read More →MCLB Albany statement regarding Secretary Defense press conference on furloughs
Tweet MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE Albany, Ga. – We are currently evaluating how Secretary of Defense-mandated furloughs will impact our total workforce. As a subordinate command under the DoD umbrella, we are awaiting amplifying guidance from the Department of the Navy and Headquarters, Marine Corps. We will keep our workforce, as well as the Greater [...]
Read More →Chambliss Statement on the Resignation of IRS Head
Tweet WASHINGTON- U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today made the following statement regarding resignation of the acting IRS administrator: “Despite the resignation of the acting IRS administrator, President Obama continues to search for a scapegoat for his own administration’s misdeeds. This insufficient action comes more than two years after this offensive abuse of power. Meanwhile, the [...]
Read More →Georgia’s unemployment rate declines to 8.2 percent in April
Tweet ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 8.2 percent in April. The rate was down two-tenths of a percentage point from 8.4 percent in March and nine-tenths of a percentage point from 9.1 percent in April a year ago. “At 8.2 percent, Georgia’s unemployment [...]
Read More →Attorney General Olens Announces Results of 2013 Georgia Legal Food Frenzy
Tweet Georgia Lawyers Donated Over 840,000 Pounds Food to Feed the Hungry Attorney General Sam Olens announced that the Georgia legal community raised the equivalent of 842,317 pounds of food during the 2013 Georgia Legal Food Frenzy, a 38% increase from last year. For the second year in a row, Olens asked Georgia lawyers to challenge each other outside [...]
Read More →LPL Financial Congratulates Robert “Bucky” Leach for Recognition in Bank Investment Consultant’s 2013 Top 20 Program Managers List
Tweet Albany, GA – May 14, 2013 – LPL Financial LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LPLA), congratulated Robert “Bucky” Leach of HeritageBank of the South’s Investment Center in Albany, Georgia for being selected to the Bank Investment Consultant 2013 Top Program Managers list. The list is published by Bank Investment Consultant, a leading financial services industry magazine. The [...]
Read More →Chambliss Votes for 2013 Farm Bill
Tweet Bill moves from committee to full Senate [...]
Read More →Isakson Demands Answers from Administration Over Soliciting Donations from Health Care Companies to Launch Obamacare
Tweet Calls Actions of HHS Secretary ‘At Best an Inherent Conflict of Interest and at Worst a Potentially Illegal Augmentation of Appropriation’ WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today joined his colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee in sending a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding details of a fundraising scheme [...]
Read More →Vivian Chatman Royal
Tweet Vivian Chatman Royal, 89 of Albany died May 15, 2013 at Palmyra Nursing Home. Funeral services will be Friday 11 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Doug Haught, minister officiating.
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