SWGA Politics

John Oxendine: Bought and Paid For?[ July 14, 2009 – 6:48 pm]by Jeff Posted in » 2010 Campaigns

Still looking at campaign disclosures, I now move to John Oxendine. Ox fared much poorer than expected this time, only generating $416,580 in new contributions – and spending $280,057 in the process.

Now, to be fair, $120,000 of those expenditures were refunding potentially illegal contributions he accepted last fall – which he said he was going to do once the Campaign Contribution Scandal story broke and he realized he had no other choice if he wanted to stand any chance at all in this election.
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You just can’t trust a politician[ July 14, 2009 – 12:45 pm]by Tom Posted in » Editorial

TARP. The “Troubled Asset Relief Program” was supposed to be a program where the government would purchase mortgage backed securities and sit on them until the value went back up. President Bush stood on in front of television cameras and told the whole nation that the United States government had to do this, because no one else could afford to wait for the value to rise sufficiently. Read More …

Could the dearly departed save downtown?[ July 14, 2009 – 8:00 am]by Tom Posted in » Albany Dougherty County

With last week’s WALB report of ghosts in the Bridge House has ghost fans throughout the region clamoring. They’re wondering what else may be haunted after all. The Municipal Auditorium? Theater Albany? Thronateeska? Who all knows what else may have ghosts, they ponder.

Whether you believe in ghosts or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is the large numbers of people who do. For years, there has been an effort to bring people into downtown Albany at night, to help balance the large amount of foot traffic downtown sees from 9-5 on every weekday. Well, the ghost tours people are talking about may just be the ticket. Read More …

An Idea on Solving GA’s Transportation Problem[ July 14, 2009 – 6:48 am]by Jeff Posted in » State

Note: In cleaning out my email inbox over the past couple of days, I found the following, which is something I had written back in March when I was having a twitter/email debate on the issue with an Athens-area city councilman. Since it doesn’t appear I’ve ever posted it here, I decided to do so now.

Atlanta is congested because decades ago, before the rise of modern telecommunication (and even transportation) technology, people HAD to be in close proximity to the things they needed and the people they needed/wanted to be around. This includes everything from grocer to doctor to work. Organizations COULDN’T spread out, because they needed their people to share documents, attend meetings, etc.
[But what about now?]