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Cancelled: Deep South Solid Waste Authority special called meeting today, 2019-03-27

According to DSSWA Chair Kevin Beals,
today’s

special called meeting
is cancelled.
Instead, they will handle business at their regular April meeting.
There is no agenda for that meeting yet, but he will ask for one to be
sent when it is ready.

The topics of the special called meeting were the
July 1, 2019 increase in local government surcharges per ton,
from $1.00 to $2.50, as passed last year in

HB 792
and

SB 385.
Also ADS wants to increase its rates, due to that and apparently some federal rule changes.

In other news, Julia Shewchuk is no longer with SGRC, since about a year now.
According to the
February 2018 SGRC newsletter, In the Region,

…Julia Shewchuk received Continue reading →

Deep South Solid Waste Authority special called meeting today, 6PM 2019-03-27

Update 2019-03-27: Cancelled.

Not in the public notices, rather as an article,
Valdosta Daily Times, 26 March 2019,

Deep South holds called meeting,

VALDOSTA — The Deep South Solid Waste Authority will hold a
special called meeting, 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at the Southern
Georgia Regional Commission office, 327 W. Savannah Ave.

Photo: John S. Quarterman, DSSWA meeting 2019-02-07

I have asked for a copy of the agenda.
Until it arrives, I can only guess Continue reading →

Additional license fee for Sunday alcohol sales? @ LCC 2012-12-10

Why should businesses have to pay an additional license fee
for Sunday alcohol sales, if the only justification is
to raise money to pay for administering that license?
That was a topic at yesterday morning's

Lowndes County Commission Work Session
for agenda item
6.a.
Revision to the Lowndes County Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance.

Finance Director Stephanie Black mentioned the things

we already heard from the staff,

brown bagging,
social hosts (serving alcohol at private events to underage drinkers),
and the
Sunday package sales.
She said for the

voter-approved Sunday alcohol sales
the license fee would be $250,
plus a requirement for an immigration affidavit.
Commissioner Powell took exception to that additional license fee,
which would be on top of a license fee already necessary for the
rest of the week.
Black and Chairman Paulk defended it as necessary to collect
money to administer the license fee.
Powell wondered if they'd need the money if they didn't
have the license fee.
Paulk said the city of Valdosta charges $1000 for a Sunday license.
Powell said he disagreed with that, too.

Here's

the video:

Additional license fee for Sunday alcohol sales?

Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 December 2012.

-jsq

Vote No on Amendment 1 —LAKE WALB Ad

The

WCTV news report
didn’t mention something else LAKE has done about
the Tim Golden use of a LAKE video without the required attribution:
LAKE paid for

a TV ad on the same WALB market as Golden’s ad.
That

LAKE ad
is still playing today: watch the news and football on WALB
in Valdosta and Hahira.

Bikram Mohanty is a man of integrity running for Georgia state Senate.

The incumbent Tim Golden’s attack ad misuses a video I took
of Bikram Mohanty, without the credit its YouTube license requires.

Tim Golden voted to put on the ballot an amendment that could siphon off
your local tax dollars for charter schools,
even if your school board doesn’t want them.

Vote for integrity;
vote for Bikram Mohanty for Georgia state Senate,

and vote No for Amendment 1.

This WALB ad, like

the WCTV news interview,
is another rare instance of the LAKE politburo deciding LAKE would
go on record as an organization, so I was speaking for LAKE.

TL;DR: If you want to use LAKE materials, cite the source.

-jsq

Tim Golden campaign admits using LAKE video without attribution —WCTV

WCTV got Tim Golden’s campaign on record admitting it used a LAKE video
without attribution.
Golden’s spokesperson claimed (erroneously) that they didn’t need to
cite the source.
As you can see below, that’s not what the license says.

Greg Gullberg wrote for WCTV last night,

Valdosta Man Takes Legal Action Against GA Senator Over Use Of Video,

A videographer in Valdosta is taking legal action against Georgia
District 8 State Senator Tim Golden.

John Quarterman says video he shot was used in an “Attack Ad”
against Senate candidate Bikram Mohanty without his permission.

“A video posted on Youtube that clearly says that attribution is
required. And there’s no attribution, no sources sighted, and he
didn’t ask permission. That’s mis-use of our material,” Quarterman
said.

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Concrete flaws at Vogtle delay construction, require modified nuke permit

Concrete sinking into the dirt less than two months after licensing?
One license amendment already requested and dozens more to come?
Does this give you confidence in Southern Company's ability to
build a safe nuclear plant without huge cost overruns charged to
you the Georgia Power customer or you the taxpayer?

In mid-March

the nuclear industry bragged about

Progress continues at the construction site of Plant Vogtle units 3
and 4 — the country's newest reactors and the first to be
licensed since 1978.

We discover that at the end of March Southern Company had to ask
NRC for a licensing change due to construction problems.

Vogtle Nuclear Construction Faces “Additional Delay”
Based on Miscalculations in Foundation Concrete — News Release
from NC WARN and Alliance for Nuclear Accountability—April
9th, 2012,