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The Dougherty Count Commission is scared, and they should be. With Cooper Tire shutting down, the remaining local industries are even more important to the Albany economy. Masterfoods (formerly M&M/Mars), and Proctor & Gamble are just two. Now, P&G is making noises about relocating elsewhere, and the Commission is nervous. Unfortunately, there’s only so much they can do. Continue reading P&G Tax Credits Are Only Part Of The Answer Sometimes local control means the locals do things that you don’t agree with. This could mean Shari’a in Iraq, gun bans in England… or private racially segregated proms here in Georgia. As usual this time of year, the ‘main stream’ media – specifically the New York Times – has picked up on the story of continued racially segregated proms, this time here in Georgia in Montgomery County. As if the nightmare that is the government’s involvement in General Motors wasn’t already bad enough, it looks like it’s about to get worse. As GM gets closer and closer to filing for bankruptcy, the talk seems to be centered around keeping the venerable auto giant afloat with help from Uncle Sam…to the tune of an additional $30-50 billion dollars. That is on top of the $20 billion tax payer dollars already given to the auto giant. Of course, it’s not like there isn’t an investment being made, right? Continue reading GM To Get More Money From Government After Rep. Scott talked about why he was running for Governor and what he thought about his GOP Primary opponents, we discussed his potential Democratic Party challengers in the General Election and The Question on everyone’s minds – will he drop out of the Governor’s race to challenge Jim Marshall for the 8th Congressional District instead? Now that I’m kicking off a ‘State House Bills I Find Interesting’ series in addition to the ‘State Senate Bills I Find Interesting’ series, this is a good time to introduce a new feature: a bill ranking system to complement the ‘SUPPORT’/'OPPOSE’. This will better note the level to which I like or dislike a bill, even though the ‘SUPPORT’ or ‘OPPOSE’ is how I would ultimately vote on it if I were a member of the General Assembly. Get onto a kid about anything, and you’re likely to be bombarded with calls that someone else did X first, or at least that they’ve gotten away with something similar. It seems that these days, people just can’t grow up, can they. Continue reading But…They Did It Too! For those that missed it, SWGAPolitics.com was in the Albany Herald yesterday – on the front page, no less!
For those who don’t know, Twitter is basically a text messaging service where you send texts that can be read by the general public and can get into various conversations, 140 characters at a time. It is also called ‘micro-blogging’. To give you an idea of how long 140 characters is, the bolded portion of the first sentence is exactly 140 characters. That said, it is becoming quite a hot bed of political activity, even here in GA. Indeed, as the recent Albany Herald article on SWGAPolitics.com mentioned, Twitter has been one of the ways I grew and continue to grow this site. Here’s a rundown of the 2010 Statewide races on Twitter: Chief John Proctor said he was going to try and clean up the Albany Police Department. Obviously, with Albany’s Finest being less fine than eras past, it would be difficult to pretend that he wasn’t going to be tasked with anything of the sort. But here in his first few days on the job, he sure seems to be walking the walk. Continue reading New Chief Seems to be Walking the Walk |
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State House Bills I Find Interesting (HB1 – HB10)
Conclusions:
HB 1: OPPOSE Rating: 3
HB 2: OPPOSE Rating: 2
HB 3: OPPOSE Rating: 1
HB 4: SUPPORT Rating: 8
HB 5: SUPPORT Rating: 7
HB 6: SUPPORT Rating: 8
HB 7: SUPPORT Rating: 7
HB 8: SUPPORT Rating: 7
HB 9: OPPOSE Rating: 1
HB 10: SUPPORT Rating: 8
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