{"id":545,"date":"2012-08-24T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/lost-lawsuits-ahead.html"},"modified":"2012-08-24T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:40:37","slug":"lost-lawsuits-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/lost-lawsuits-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Lawsuits Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLooks like history may repeat itself like last decade,\nnow that LOST negotiations between the cities and the county have failed.\nExcept this time apparently the law has changed so they can&#8217;t sue each\nother directly.\n<a title=\"Gretchen on LOST\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7852549258\/sizes\/m\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01774451b0b1970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01774451b0b1970d-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Gretchen on LOST\"  \/><\/a>\nInstead next it goes to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/elections\/lost\/2012-04-09--LCC-lost\/SCAN0113.html\">\nSuperior Court &#8220;baseball arbitration&#8221;.<\/a>\nHowever, I bet that still involves lawyers at taxpayer expense,\nnot to mention the Court&#8217;s time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGreg Gullberg reported for WCTV yesterday,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/news\/georgianews\/headlines\/LOST-Negotiations-Hit-Another-Dead-End-167239065.html\">\nTax Negotiations Hit Another Dead End In Lowndes County,<\/a>\nand asked Gretchen down at the County Extension, who said,\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nIt&#8217;s sort of sad because it is a waste, if you will, of taxpayer dollars.\nThat the elected officials can&#8217;t get together and come to some agreement\nto say that they all understand how the money has to be divided up\nYeah, it&#8217;s sad that more money has to go to lawyers\ninsted of being spent on services.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<script src=\"http:\/\/WCTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=671737;hostDomain=ww2.WCTV6.com;playerWidth=300;playerHeight=270;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7648948;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=false;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.WCTV6.com\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI continue to think the local governments could spend their time together\nbetter\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/06\/strategies-for-lowndes-county-john-s-quarterman.html\">\ntrying to increase the size of the pie<\/a> instead of squabbling over slices of it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looks like history may repeat itself like last decade, now that LOST negotiations between the cities and the county have failed. 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