Another indictment ahead: Dollar Square still not paying rent
Tweet The Dougherty County district attorney gave downtown businessman Tim Washington a choice in December: Either sign a note to pay the city $40,000 that was stolen from taxpayers to equip his Dollar Square store on North Jackson Street — or be convicted of fraud. Jefferson chose to pay up. But Washington isn’t paying the [...]
Read More →Alfred Lott defies bosses, to hire headhunter to help replace Don Buie
Tweet Albany City Manager Alfred Lott says to heck with what his bosses told him: He’s going to hire a headhunter to replace Don Buie whether the City Commission likes it or not. The job’s just too hard to hard for him and his staff to do, Lott says. The price tag for the city [...]
Read More →Living in dark times
Tweet Picture, if you will, living in a land of tyranny and oppression. It’s hard, I know, since we all know we live in the Land of the Free, so I’ll try and help you picture some details that may help you form that picture in your mind. Follow along at home, and we’ll see [...]
Read More →What-Cha Say, Albany?
Tweet REGARDING THE SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT flap, I see this as a sad step in the education of Dougherty County’s kids. Does this Board of Education even realize their focus is in the education of the kids? No wonder so many students in Dougherty County go the private schools. ******* MY DADDY ALWAYS SAID, “It’s who [...]
Read More →Is Michael Windom scared?
Tweet Letter to Editor: I sincerely hope the reason Michael Windom wants to reconsider his choice for Dougherty County schools superintendent is not because he is scared. Scared of what, you ask? Now, let’s see. The vote fell between racial lines, so that it is questionable. Maybe he is scared of being voted out of [...]
Read More →MLK far from conquerer in Albany, Georgia
Tweet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a pretty good grasp of the historical significance of his civil rights work as it was happening and afterward. And King’s self-assessment of his attempts to effect social justice in Albany was brutal: “The mistake I made there was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a [...]
Read More →The problem with America? Americans
Tweet Every day, in any given media outlet, someone will tell you who’s to blame for the sorry state of our country. Liberals will shout from the roof tops that the problem lies at the feet of conservatives who favored going to war with Iraq and in stripping away civil liberties. Conservatives will point their [...]
Read More →Interest heavy in replacing Sanford Bishop
Tweet It may be one of the coldest winters on record, but things may be about to heat up in Georgia’s Second Congressional District. At least three, possibly four, candidates are running on the Republican side to challenge Rep. Sanford Bishop. Mike Keown entered the race early. He currently serves as a state representative and [...]
Read More →Message from Kevin Hogencamp
Tweet It was on my birthday in 1999 when, being fairly new to the community, I first heard the song, Oh, Pritchett, Oh, Kelley, Open Dem Cells. The Albany Freedom Singers were performing at the civil rights museum as they’ve done on virtually every second Saturday over the past 15 years. And I’ve been singing [...]
Read More →This stimulus abuse is environmental crime
Tweet Editorial What the city of Albany effectively did through its bogus environmental assessment and in the name of “stimulating” the local economy at taxpayer sacrifice was effectively and willfully violate federal environmental law. That crime should be prosecuted. Amid the secrecy and shenanigans associated with the city’s proposed $9 million-plus bus transfer facility, the [...]
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