Our budget is more screwed up and Lindsey Lohan’s sense of right and wrong. It didn’t get this way overnight either. The solutions are many and varied, but there’s really only one that will work: cut deep and be ready to cut anything and everything. Just about everyone has their pet money pits within...
In the interest of fair play, I’m going to tell you about the Spooners. You see, they were about to lose their farm, so they went to the USDA for help. The person they credit with them keeping their farm? Shirley Sherrod. According to the Atlanta Journal, the Mr. Spooner is the white man...
People make mistakes, even really bad ones sometimes. Some of my own mistakes are the stuff of legend, or would be if I was sure the statute of limitations had expired, but the Albany Police Department’s mistakes make anything I’ve done pale in comparison. The most recent, as reported in The Albany Journal, involves...
SWGAPolitics.com will be hosting it’s first Candidate forum tonight at Connections on Dawson Road in Albany, GA. There will be over 30 candidates from local and state races, everything from school board to governor and US Senate will be on the table for you to hobnob with them all. Connections is located at 2401...
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital seems to be weathering the recession just fine. While staff has had to tighten their belts without a pay raise, Phoebe CEO Joel Wernick doesn’t seem to be doing a whole lot of suffering. However, it seems that Phoebe has a powerful friend who is looking to send a little...
Politics, particularly racial politics, is always a touchy subject. Racial politics in particular. All to often, we constrain our voices in fear that our opinions will be labeled racist. Many people see someone of another race accomplish something, or get a helping hand from someone, and it becomes easy to assume that race plays...
Tomorrow, people all over this nation will enjoy a day off. Banks will be closed, as will government offices. Many private businesses will be enjoying a day at home with family. Many people have taken off on trips. Maybe they’re going to the beach, or perhaps the mountains. Many others will be cooking out...
As Joshua Murfree is now the Dougherty County School System Superintendent, it’s time to at least acknowledge that the children of Dougherty County are possibly good and thoroughly screwed. That is the typical result whenever you have an unqualified person fill a role that of such importance without clear qualifications. It’s like hiring someone...
