BISHOP STATEMENT REGARDING Women’s HISTORY MONTH
Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Sanford Bishop (GA-02) released the following statement via video today recognition of Women’s History Month during March of 2013. Congressman Bishop had this to say:
Read More →Ending the insanity by defending ourselves
Tweet Yesterday, an elderly man was brutally beaten on Clark Avenue. In a town that I can be extremely critical of, this took me to a whole new level of disbelief. The thuggish behavior in this community has been tolerated long enough. Just yesterday, I wrote about how some of this needs to change, and [...]
Read More →The real problem with Albany
Tweet Albany is a city of many problems. Yes, I make my living pointing most of those out. Yes, I blast the City Commission, County Commission, and the School Board with equal regularity. However, the real problem with Albany is something that the government can’t really do a whole heck of a lot about. Much [...]
Read More →Why all the bad news?
Tweet Someone asked me once why newspapers, TV news and news websites focus on the bad stuff. After all, horrible things seem to get all the attention while good stuff gets page 3. Well, I understand the question, and I’m going to lay it out very simply. It’s because of you.
Read More →Feds’ advice to furloughed workers: Do stuff we couldn’t do
Tweet Few are noticing the pinch of the sequester, though we’ve been told it is coming. Civil Service employees at MCLB Albany have been told to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 percent of their income as a result of sequestration. This isn’t unique to Albany either, but rolls across the entire Department of [...]
Read More →Hating Albany
Tweet I’m a negative guy. Don’t believe me? Just ask most of our city leaders. Oh, they may be very polite and not say anything negative about me, but I doubt they would disagree with you if you ask them how negative I am. Take a look around town, and you can see where I’m [...]
Read More →Rand Paul’s question far from offensive
Tweet American politics can be offensive. It’s the nature of the beast on that front. Senator Lindsey Graham called Rand Paul’s question about whether drones would be used on Americans not engaged in combat on American soil offensive. I’m sorry Sen. Graham, but the offensive thing is that it took so long for such a [...]
Read More →Rand Paul’s historic stand shouldn’t have been needed
Tweet Some called it grandstanding. Me? I call it almost heroic. A lone senator stood for eight hours, blocking something that he was most likely planning on voting for (John Brennan’s appointment as CIA director), because of a deeper principle. He made a stands based not on party, but the simple concept of right and [...]
Read More →Library bid shows there’s nothing wrong with admitting a mistake
Tweet The Dougherty County Library System’s first attempt at getting bids was apparently screwed up. In Albany and Dougherty County, that’s not all that unusual. What is unusual is that the library system admitted things were screwed up and rebid the contract. The result, a potential savings of $300,000.
Read More →Are guns in schools a good idea? What about other places?
Tweet As WALB reported, there are a couple of bills in the General Assembly that would permit guns in new places, including college campuses. Clearly, these are going to be hotly contested bills, as all gun legislation tends to be, even without the current political climate. As WALB reported:
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