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Congressional redistricting meeting for Georgia in Valdosta



According to the Moultrie Observer,

Redistricting meeting set for Valdosta:

A joint meeting of the House and Senate Legislative and Congressional
Reapportionment committees will be held in Valdosta on Tuesday, May 24,
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Brooks Hall Conference Center of Wiregrass
Georgia Technical College. The meeting will a public hearing.

For more information or for directions, visit the Wiregrass Technical
College Web site at

www.wiregrass.edu. Parking is free for the meeting.

That’s at the Brooks Hall Conference Center at 4089 Val Tech Road.

Here’s some further information on redistricting from

Ballotpedia.
This is the only redistricting meeting in the current Georgia First
Congressional District (GA-01) and I think the only one in
the Second Congressional District (GA-02).

That’s the same evening as the next Lowndes County Commission meeting,
so LAKE could use some owls to get video at both locations.
We can loan cameras.
Interested parties please contact information at l-a-k-e.org
(yes, the hyphens are part of the address).

-jsq

LBJ about Pollution



It’s a really great speech and still relevant 45 years later.
This is just a little excerpt:

In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague
and menace the American scene. These are the technological wastes–the
by-products of growth, industry, agriculture, and science. We cannot
wait for slow evolution over generations to deal with them.

Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Some pollutants are known to be
harmful to health, while the effect of others is uncertain and unknown. In
some cases we can control pollution with a larger effort. For other
forms of pollution we still do not have effective means of control.

Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency,
reduces property values and raises taxes.

The longer we wait to act, the greater the dangers and the larger the
problem.

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