Dog Responsibility
Tweet Rarely a week goes by that we don’t hear about a dog attacking a human or another animal. While occasionally the aggressive dogs are strays, more often, they are someone’s pet. In one of the more recent attacks, a chow mauled a tiny Yorkie mix, while its owner stood nearby. Now, the owner [...]
Read More →College Costs
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. The Georgia Student Finance Commission told lawmakers recently that lottery proceeds cannot keep up with the demand for scholarships. That means the financial burden on the student and his family will increase, and it’s no wonder. The problem is that the cost of higher education [...]
Read More →Streamline Government
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. Governor Nathan Deal announced an idea to do something that we think is long overdue in state and federal government: consolidate and streamline government agencies. When times were good, and everybody who wanted a job had one, we could carry the inefficiency that government [...]
Read More →Cheating found on CRCT
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. Well the report is in and we all now know there was not only cheating on Dougherty County CRCT tests…there was wide-spread cheating. Long before the governor appointed special investigators to set up shop in town to get to the bottom of the test [...]
Read More →T-SPLOST
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. You have heard a lot lately, about the new T-SPLOST. A one-percent sales tax which will deliver infrastructure and economic development benefits for our Southwest Georgia region South Georgia has supported local SPLOST efforts many times in the past, so the concept should not [...]
Read More →SCHOOL LUNCH INVESTIGATION
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. SCHOOL LUNCH INVESTIGATION Monday night, Dougherty County School Board members voted to hire an independent expert to help them figure out how widespread fraud in the free lunch program is. We hope they’re serious, and we hope they follow through with a complete audit to root [...]
Read More →University Gardens
Tweet If Albany leaders can’t find a use for a failed development in East Albany… they may have to repay 500-thousand dollars to the federal government. Brush and trees still stand on this land off Frank Postell Sr. Street that by now, was supposed to be home to low to moderate income housing. That hasn’t [...]
Read More →SCHOOL RAPE
Tweet An Albany teenager suspected of raping a girl on school property not only remains in class, but is staring on his school’s football team. Last week, a grand jury indicted Westover High School student, 16-year old Shannon Saunders for rape. He’s accused of assaulting a 15-year old girl in the school’s auditorium last May [...]
Read More →Open Government a Worthy Pursuit
Tweet Georgia Supreme Court Justices and the state’s top law enforcement official are trying to send a message about the importance of open government. This week, the High Court ordered the city of Statesboro to pay the legal fees for a group that sued the city for violating the state’s Open Meetings Act by planning [...]
Read More →Fairness Should Trump Politics in Redistricting
Tweet A special session of the General Assembly is under way to approve new state and Congressional voting districts. For the first time, Republicans are in charge of the process, and they’re doing many of the things they complained about from Democrats for years. It hasn’t been a very open process. Republicans refused to get [...]
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