Things to do in Downtown Albany this week!
Tweet Tuesday, July 12th – 6pm Downtown Merchant Association Monthly Meeting Location: Subway- 122 N. Jackson Street Wednesday, July 13th- 5pm Wine Down Wednesdays! Location: Chill Bar & Lounge every Wednesday. Mix. Mingle. Sip. Unwind. Hangout with friends, listening to music & mingle with other professionals. Sponsored by Downtown Merchants, Global Essence, and Living Legends [...]
Read More →Bishop Tackles Federal Budget Deficit with Albany Residents
Tweet Nearly 100 Albany residents tried their hand at balancing the federal budget tonight during a deficit reduction workshop held by Representative Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02). The bi-partisan Concord Coalition helped organize the event at Albany Technical College, which put people into groups of five to ten and asked them to work together and [...]
Read More →ASU’s economic impact measured at $138 million
Tweet During the 2010 fiscal year, Albany State University’s overall economic impact on the regional economy was measured at $137,707,545, according to a report recently released by the University System of Georgia. The report also measured ASU’s employment impact at 1,757 jobs in fiscal year 2010. Of that total, 580 jobs were on-campus and 1,177 [...]
Read More →Bo Henry, Stewart Campbell purchase Merry Acres
Tweet (News Release) Bo Henry and Stewart Campbell are proud to announce that they have purchased the Merry Acres Event Center/Restaurant and Office complex along with the Merry Acres Motel from the Dozier Family who has owned and operated the business since the 1950′s. The Dozier and Stanfill families have had a very successful real [...]
Read More →Hooters Being Evicted (UPDATED!)
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Hooters Being Evicted (UPDATED) Hooters’ landlord has served eviction papers on the Albany restaurant for its failure to pay rent. Property owner Joe Watkins says he hopes the business at 2817 Old Dawson Road remains open, but that he exhausted every opportunity work with Hooters before serving the business with a [...]
Read More →USDA says: Randolph County area businesses threatened with closing saved with federal funds
Tweet Curt Wiley, Chief of Staff of USDA Rural Development Business and Cooperative Services in Washington, D.C., will be in Randolph County to visit with three business owners who have benefitted from recent funding to create jobs. The celebration and facility tour will be at RockWater (also known as Peerless Manufacturing) on U.S. Highway 82 [...]
Read More →Attractions not what they seem
Tweet It was opened with much fanfare. City officials crooned on about how it was going to revitalize downtown and be a beacon of prosperity, summoning people from all across Southwest Georgia to the Good Life City. With these folks would come millions of dollars that would stimulate our economy as a whole and create [...]
Read More →Balancing budgets can be much simpler
Tweet They say it every January under the Gold Dome: This legislative session is going to be unlike any other. Jobs are going to be lost. Programs are going to be cut. Sacrifices are going to have to be made. For the budget to balance, taxes may have to be raised. Yada, yada, yada. Seriously, [...]
Read More →New Law addresses credit fees
Tweet 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 [...]
Read More →Barney Frank’s policy on bad loans
Tweet Barney Frank. What can you say about the guy that he won’t say for himself? I mean really, when he tells the New York Times, “I don’t think it’s a bad thing that the bad loans occurred. It was an effort to keep prices from falling too fast. That’s a policy.” It’s a policy? [...]
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