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 note back; consequently, [...]

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 along to [...]

By Phil Hennin Talecris, a 27-bed blood plasma donation center in Albany, was granted a variance by the City of Albany to expand its service capacity. Marcy McMullen, manager of Talecris Plasma Resources said that multiplied by four clients in a one day period Talecris’ capacity is about 108 clients per day. “Around the holidays it’s always busy,” [...]

Few areas of our lives have become as expensive as fees associated with maintaining a credit card. In February, a federal law designed to ease the costly burden of credit cards will take effect. The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 will curb some of the abuses credit card companies have used [...]

The City of Albany allowed a businessman to operate the $500,000 taxpayer-owned skateboard park for $1 a year without a lease or liability insurance, public records show. Assistant City Manager James Taylor told the Albany-Dougherty Inner City Authority last week that the city padlocked the skateboard park on the Flint River’s [...]