Last night the County Commission Chairman turned a routine event invitation
into front page news in the VDT this morning:
http://valdostadailytimes.com/local/x1162624684/Paulk-No-more-biomass:
Lowndes County Commission Chairman Ashley Paulk called a halt Tuesday evening to commissioners hearing biomass comments during public portions of regular board meetings.LAKE has videos; here’s a playlist, and here it is embedded: Continue reading
Continue readingTo: Brad Lofton
From: John S. Quarterman
Cc: [see below]
Subject: Re: VDT EditorialHowdy,
Tiny LAKE is flattered to be asked to repost VDT materials for mighty VLCIA! But to answer your question, this is a blog, not a newspaper, nor a wire service for a newspaper. LAKE also hasn’t posted all of the letters to the editor of the VDT pro and con on this subject or others of interest to us.
More basically, you seem to continue to confuse “VLCIA answered” with “the answers satisfied the questioners” or “the answers actually addressed the content of the questions” or “nobody is questioning anymore”.
Questions continued to be asked at the VLCIA “Forum” of 6 Dec 2010. I ask again:
From: “blofton@industrialauthority.com” <blofton@industrialauthority.com>,Lofton copied the same people I did: Continue reading
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:35:23 -0500
Subject: RE: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011Thank you for providing the video from Thursday. I will proudly share it with everyone. It was a great night, and I was pleased with the very large amount of support in the room. You may also want to consult with the local Mortgage Broker’s Assocation. I spoke for them last week as well, and they are enthusiastic supporters.
Have a nice weekend,
BLSent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
Mary Gooding, VLCIA board member, acknowledges receipt of my
heads-up (included below) to VLCIA about
the recent videos of Brad Lofton.
(More of those to come, by the way.)
-jsq
From: “Mary B. Gooding”Continue reading
To: “John S. Quarterman”
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:28:59 +0000
Subject: RE: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011John – Thanks!
Mary B. Gooding
Director of Marketing and Community Relations
Valdosta State University
229-333-7444
FAX 229-245-3891IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE A BLAZER!
—–Original Message—–
That’s one thing on the
8:30 AM agenda for this morning.
Work sessions are where most discussion among the commissioners usually occurs.
The actual vote will be in tomorrow’s (11 Jan) 5:30 PM regular session.
Background on the contentious rezoning for the Glen Laurel subdivision is in the continuing series in this blog.
-jsq
-jsq
Update: the agenda for the 3 Jan 2011 special session
is posted on the county webpages.
COMMISSION EXPANSIONThis is on the county’s front page, with links toOn Monday, January 3, 2011, the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners held a special called meeting during which the adoption of a resolution expressing the county’s desire to move forward with the expansion of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners, as previously directed by the voters of Lowndes County, was unanimously approved.
a map of the parts of the superdistricts within Valdosta.
What is not included Continue reading
Valdosta’s web page sums up the situation: Continue reading
Richard Read wrote in The Oregonian on 4 Jan 2011,
Oregon homeowners can now go solar with no upfront costs:
Oregonians put off by the high price of renewable energy can now go solar on the cheap, installing panels for no money down.They’re talking $25/month with no money down. That’s a thousand miles north of here, in rainy Oregon. Maybe we should just invite SolarCity to operate here.Contractors in a handful of states are starting to offer solar to the masses with lease deals that eliminate upfront costs. Oregon is joining the trend, thanks to regulations that took effect Jan. 1.
The Portland branch of a national solar company unveiled a lease program Tuesday enabling homeowners to put up panels for low monthly payments, cutting their electricity bills and carbon footprints. At least one other contractor, a local company, is developing similar products.
Managers of SolarCity, a California-based company, say Oregon homeowners can go solar for as little as $20 a month with no up-front costs. The new financing option, which incorporates state and federal tax credits….
-jsq
You can
hear him say he hopes I record it.
This is what VLCIA considers “proof”: reciting a list of “authorities”
without addressing the specific criticisms or directly debating critics.
He still hasn’t produced
the citations to scientific literature
he’s been repeatedly asked for regarding health care,
nor has he produced the wood sourcing study.
You can hear Lofton recite much the same laundry list in Continue reading