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Crime and Punishment…what can be done

By Tom, on August 5th, 2009%

As the Good Life City awoke, we learned of two violent home invasions that left three people injured. Today, those households are picking up the pieces of their lives as they have become the latest statistics on violent crime in Albany. While I have every confidence that the police are working diligently (a source tells SWGA Politics that the vehicle stolen in the second invasion has been recovered and police are interviewing a “person of interest”), we have to understand that there’s only so much they can do. Continue reading Crime and Punishment…what can be done

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Consolidation back on the table…maybe

By Tom, on August 5th, 2009%

Over the last couple of days, both the County Commission and now the City Commission have put the consolidation issue back on the table and sought to revisit the charter that would eliminate the idea that we have two governments instead of just one. And this is without the General Assembly having yet to force the issue via State Representative Ed Rynder’s consolidation bill.

Please excuse me if I’m skeptical. Continue reading Consolidation back on the table…maybe

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Lee County Library: The Right Place, Part 2

By Jeff, on August 5th, 2009%

Continuing our brief series regarding the Lee County Library, we now show the data available from the architects via the most recent Board of Commissioners meeting Agenda Packet. According to that document, there were 9 sites available, listed A-I, and I have used the map on page 77 of that document to put together this image:

potential Lee County Library/Meeting Center sites

potential Lee County Library/Meeting Center sites

Site A is 8 acres of land on the northern corner of the intersection of Hwy 82 and Hickory Grove Rd. The list cost is $280,000 – $35,000 per acre. Its owners have apparently offered to donate 2.5 acres of this, at a value of $87,500, for a net price to the County of $192,500. Additional costs are listed as an Accel/Decel Lane on Hwy 82, which means basically merging lanes into and out of the site.

Advantages of Site A are listed as Gravity sewer, water, offsite storm water, power, good visibility, future major intersection with traffic light, and access to Hwy 82. Disadvantages are listed as only right turns into or out of the site off Hwy 82, and no access to Oakland Parkway – meaning there would be exactly one entrance/exit here.
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