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Thanks to Ashley Turner and Paige Dukes for sending them along.
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from Valdosta to Moody AFB
and on to Ray City and Nashville in Berrien County,
and Willacoochee in Atkinson County.
This proposal is to aid freight, but with this upgrade to the track,
the same track would be even more readily usable for passenger rail.
That same track was used for passenger travel up into the 1950s.
My mother used to catch the train at Barretts (just north of Moody) to go visit her relatives in Pearson (a bit east of Willacoochee).It’s true the project sheet talks about “potential customers in the region”:
This project will provide for more efficient train operations along the rail corridor to accommodate the increase rail traffic serving the existing and potential customers in the region.However, rail promotes development in existing population centers and at stations, unlike all along automobile roadways.
This project is also another example of how the economic area of Moody AFB includes Continue reading
One short stretch of road vs. a three-line bus system to connect Wiregrass Tech, Five Points, Downtown, Moody, East Side, South Side, West Side, and the Mall.
Road and bridge proponents usually mutter that a bus system won’t pay back for years, if ever. And that’s right: bus systems usually operate at a loss because local governments subsidize them for the social and economic benefits they bring, such as these:
This project will provide mobility options for all travelers; improve access to employment; and help mitigate congestion and maximize the use of existing infrastructure by promoting high-occupancy travel.Employment, safety, and less sprawl, all from a bus system.
What road and bridge proponents don’t ever mention is: Continue reading
The actual decision is broader than that.
It’s not just about police, it’s about
“The filming of government officials engaged in their duties in a
public place”.
Quoting from United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit, No. 10-1764, August 26, 2011.
Page 8:
The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frameContinue readingit, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It is firmly established that the First Amendment’s aegis extends further than the text’s proscription on laws
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Monthly LAKE Meeting
When: 5:30 PM   Sunday 11 September 2011 Where: Smokin’ Pig BBQ Express   3960 Macey Dr.   Valdosta, GA 31602 That’s behind the Taco Bell, off of Huntley Drive, off of Bemiss Road. Google maps doesn’t know Macey Drive exists, but Mapquest does. Note this is not the one on North Valdosta Road. |
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Board of Education meeting of 30 August 2011.
As you can see, it really was almost all about approving
a resolution against school consolidation.
We’ve already posted that resolution and the unanimous vote.
The actual resolution is a model of such things: simple and easy to read, yet complete enough to cover the territory, and leaving no doubts as to the board’s position. Congratulations to LCBOE on that resolution!
Playlist, called meeting, Lowndes County Board of Education (LCBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 30 August 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman
for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Let me also take a moment to thank some LCBOE staff. Continue reading
Here is the complete
playlist for yesterday’s (8 September 2011) Lowndes County Lunch and Learn,
in which County Manager Joe Pritchard reviewed the county’s budget process.
County Clerk Paige Dukes said she would also send the slides for posting.
County Manager Joe Pritchard presents the budget process
Lowndes County Lunch and Learn 8 September 2011
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
Here are last month’s Lunch and Learn playlist and slides.
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Here’s a
video playlist
for the whole meeting: teacher hiring, board member training,
and a statement against school consolidation, with additional
comments by many citizens.
Many of these videos have already been published in the
VBOE 29 August 2011 category in this blog.
Videos of entire VBOE 29 August 2011 meeting
education, referendum, consolidation, statement,
Work Session, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 August 2011.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
The playlist also includes other video material, such as Continue reading
Georgia has gained enough population in the past ten years to add a congressional seat. This means redrawing the CongressionalContinue readingdistrict lines not only to balance population, but to also add another representative in Congress. Lowndes County has been split between the first and second districts, and all spring rumors of where we might end up were circulating. Eventually we saw a draft map that had Lowndes completely in the 8th District,
along with other counties along Interstate 75. That map made some sense south of Macon. Some communities of interest were preserved (most of the Lowndes-Valdosta MPO was in the same district) and the hospitality corridor of I-75 was in one district, along with the rural farms that surround it. Valdosta to Macon is easier to traverse than Valdosta to Savannah, or Valdosta to Columbus.
BeforeBut then Congressman Jack Kingston stuck out his green tongue.
The Valdosta Board of Education
voted last week to oppose school consolidation.
Note plenty of FVCS people there, many
speaking against consolidation.
If there were CUEE people present, they were awful silent.
If “unification” is about education, where was CUEE at that meeting or at the Lowndes County Board of Education meeting the following day when LCBOE unanimously passed a resolution supporting VBOE in opposition to consolidation? Maybe CUEE will show up tonight and say something. Unless VDT is right, and CUEE can’t answer the relevant questions.
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