Are mixed signals to blame for obesity
Tweet Obesity, particularly childhood obesity, has spent a lot of time in the news. There’s a good reason for that too. Obesity is a dangerous condition that can lead to a myriad of health problems. Unfortunately, society typically receives mixed signals about how to address the issue of weight, particularly among women.
Read More →40 Days at the Capitol- Installment 9
Tweet To our readers: State Senator Buddy Carter (R- Pooler) will be reporting each week during the Legislative Session. The session began January 14, 2013 and is expected to last until the latter days of March.
Read More →Ethics Reform Transparently Lacks Will
Tweet Most items of consequence within the Georgia General Assembly happen during the final few days. This is sometimes because lengthy negotiations require the full allotment of time to come to a consensus of the interested parties in each chamber. Sometimes it is because positions require feedback that is part of an iterative process involving [...]
Read More →Saying goodbye
Tweet Sometime back, we ran a report in our print edition called “Delivery of Death”. The article was about how dangerous, addictive drugs could be ordered online and sent to you via the mail. It wasn’t a call for action, or for abridgement of your mail. It was a report about something that happened that [...]
Read More →Difficulty Increases For Procurement Of Death Penalty Drugs
Tweet When you hear Georgia’s legislators talk about most items of integrity in governance, you’ll hear them talk about the need for transparency. When you hear them talk about the natural competitive advantages Georgia has to attract business, you’ll generally hear talk about logistics. And when you start talking about the logistics of how Georgia [...]
Read More →Georgia, and Albany, should be reaping the benefits
Tweet In the wake of Sandy Hook, many businesses are feeling unwelcome in their home states. After all, they’re in the gun business. The highest profile one so far has been Magpul industries, which very publicly stated that it would pull out of Colorado if the governor signed anti-gun measures. He did.
Read More →Karen Handel Testing U.S. Senate Race Waters; A Perdue Testing Too
Tweet Former Georgia Secretary of State and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel is now exploring entering the U.S. Senate race to replace Saxby Chambliss as an active possibility. Handel has been mostly quiet since Chambliss’ surprise retirement announcement, while allowing conventional wisdom to linger that she would seek the 6th District Congressional Seat presumably to [...]
Read More →Job Investment Fund MUST go forward
Tweet There’s a snag in the job investment fund that commissioner Bob Langstaff first proposed many months ago, but it needs to be worked through and worked through quickly. That job investment fund may be the last, best hope for turning things around in Albany, and we need it desperately. “But Tom, I thought you [...]
Read More →Broun – More Headlines For The Sake Of Headlines
Tweet Congressman Paul Broun is good at making headlines. Being adored by the far right media or eviscerated by MSNBC are both good for his personal politics, and Broun knows it. And the way one makes headlines in those spheres is not to suggest good policy, but rather to stake out the most rigid position, [...]
Read More →Commission makes the right move
Tweet The Albany City Commission made the right move yesterday. Yes, I actually typed those words. Don’t faint, because it’s true. It’s not a binding move, but it was still the right one. The City Commission needs to have more oversight on the doings of Water, Gas & Light. I know that WG&L employees aren’t [...]
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