Will raising the drop out age accomplish anything?
Tweet Yesterday, we ran Jim Wilcox’s take on the high school drop out age. We asked what you, our readers thought, something we plan on doing more. I was curious if I was alone in my thinking on the issue. Surprisingly, I wasn’t.
Read More →Drug Task Force Closures
Tweet Almost daily we have stories about drug arrests somewhere in south Georgia. While local law enforcement is often on the front lines of these busts, regional drug task forces have played a big role in taking dealers, narcotics and weapons off the street.
Read More →Vote Yes on Charter School Amendment
Tweet On Nov. 6, voters will see an important question a little further down their ballot well after the Presidential and local races.
Read More →Herald’s Hetzler only giving part of the story
Tweet The publisher of The Albany Herald ran a column yesterday taking aim at WALB’s General Manger, Jim Wilcox. Wilcox apparently signaled the demise of the print newspaper and offered up WALB as an alternative to print media. Publisher John Hetzler was apparently not amused.
Read More →TECH COLLEGE TUITION
Tweet It’s about to cost a lot more to go to a Georgia technical college. That’s a shame, but it was also probably unavoidable.
Read More →Gary Price
Tweet How many more people will have to be hurt or killed before the Albany Police Chief takes Officer Gary Price off the streets? Two people have been killed and 10 injured in four separate crashes that involved Officer Price. He’s been ticketed, warned, disciplined, even transferred off the drug squad. The city and county [...]
Read More →SPLOST Forums
Tweet There’s much debate about the proposed new transportation tax that Georgians will vote on July 31st. According to the Chamber of Commerce, this regional tax will create more than $15,000 jobs, will have a $500 million economic impact on Southwest Georgia, and If it passes, the revenue generated in our area is [...]
Read More →Thanks Big Steve
Tweet Far too often, we get caught up in our own little worlds. Our work, our families, our bills, in other words, ourselves. We don’t take the time to pause, to do many things we should do.
Read More →DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Tweet Are you and your family ready for a disaster? If you’re not, now is the time to prepare. Hurricane season begins June 1st, but we’ve already had two tropical storms. Just this week, Beryl made landfall near Georgia. It didn’t cause any major problems, but next time, we may not be so lucky. In [...]
Read More →SCHOOL SYSTEM BOND
Tweet There’s yet another instance of poor judgment by top administrators in the Dougherty County School System. Superintendent Joshua Murfree and Assistant Superintendent Kenneth Goseer reimbursed parents for bond money after they complained about their daughter’s arrest at school. The school board attorney says that may be an unlawful expenditure of school system money, [...]
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