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Tasers, Christmas Celebrations, and Missing Councilmen

By Jeff, on October 8th, 2009%

Recap of tonight’s Leesburg City Council meeting:

Two Councilmen were missing – Steve Kitchens and Richard Bush. Maybe they had good reasons, who knows? All I’m noting here is that they weren’t there. (Something I find interesting is that of the two Council meetings I’ve been to, two members have been out both times – Powell and Long missed September’s meeting. Is this some kind of tradition?)

Leesburg will host a County-wide ‘Spirit of Christmas’ event on Saturday, Decemeber 5, 2009. Apparently there will be vendors, a parade, and family events throughout the day culminating in an outdoor movie that night. Food vendors will be limited to the various school groups for fundraising, and all three government entities in the County – City of Leesburg, Lee County, and Lee County Schools – are pitching in with the effort. I’ll post more information here as it becomes available.
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Calling The Water War As I See it

By Publius, on October 8th, 2009%

by Austin Scott

The new War Between the States, the Water War that is, comes down to one thing: economic opportunity. How can metropolitan areas around Georgia attract industry if we cannot guarantee that industry will have the water it needs to operate? And how can our rural areas produce agricultural commodities if we cannot irrigate our crops? We are all employed either directly or indirectly by one of these two economic sectors, and Georgia regularly competes with Alabama and Florida for the jobs that these areas provide. So when a Federal judge issues not one, but two back-to-back rulings against the State of Georgia, as U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson recently did, the people of Georgia deserve a forthright answer to two very simple questions: “How did this happen?” And, “Where do we go from here?” At stake are not only our water, but our jobs and our economy.
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Signs of intelligence in Los Angeles?

By Tom, on October 8th, 2009%

As the Supreme Court looks at the idea of holding cities and states to the Second Amendment, a concept that would overturn gun bans all over the nation, gun rights advocates have found an unlikely ally in the fight for their civil liberties. That ally? The Los Angeles Times. Continue reading Signs of intelligence in Los Angeles?

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