Saturday voting in Dougherty County?
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Dougherty County elections officials will discuss and perhaps decide Wednesday whether to provide the opportunity for residents to vote on Saturdays this fall, a measure strongly opposed by Georgia House of Representatives candidate Karen Kemp of Albany. Saturday voting is being considered in response to a request by Dr. Constance Burkes, [...]
Read More →Civic Center selectee withdraws, offers services in private management
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Albany City Manager Alfred Lott’s selectee to fill the Civic Center director slot has notified Lott that he will not accept the job, partly due to Lott’s lame-duck status. Shannon McCullough, operations director of the Athens Classic Center, says he was surprised to learn that he had received an “informal” job [...]
Read More →Lott hid forgeries from police, feds
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Albany City Manager Alfred Lott allowed a city employee who committed fraud on the city’s behalf to quietly resign rather than to be fired or prosecuted, and then hid the matter from police and the federal agency that was defrauded, public records show.
Read More →Not all circus acts are at Civic Center
Tweet Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaid’s singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Song John Donne 1633 AD This week [...]
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 →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 [...]
Read More →Whistleblower complaint led to transit firing of Nedra Woodyatt
Tweet An anonymous letter written by a bus operator to City Manager Alfred Lott prompted an investigation that resulted in the dismissal of Albany Transit Director Nedra Woodyatt, public records show. The letter, titled “Albany Transit Fleecing the Citizens of Albany,” detailed mismanagement, waste and safety concerns that were documented by Assistant City Manager Wes [...]
Read More →Albany Georgia transit system Director has been fired
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Amid a cloud of secrecy, City Manager Alfred Lott has fired transit system director Nedra Woodyatt and her second-in-command as the city continues to try to push a scandal-ridden $9 million bus station project through the federal bureaucracy. Woodyatt was the project director for the proposed “multi-modal transportation center,” which is [...]
Read More →SWGAPolitics.com Year in Review
Tweet Wow. 2009 is over. We saw quite a bit happen during the year. We’ve seen one of the top-three most powerful politicians in the state drop out of the Georgia governor’s race under the auspices of his health, only to have the rumor come out later in the year that it was actually over [...]
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