Tonight I went to the VBOE meeting and delivered the offical NAACP letterContinue readingstating our branch’s opposition to consolidation. I asked Chairman Warren Lee if he would discuss with VBOE attorney Gary Moser and let me know whether they are “allowed” to take a position on this. The reason I asked this is because one of my friends says that Dr. Cason told her that “they are not allowed” to take a position on this. To my mind, employees might not be able to take a position, but elected officials representing voters ought to clearly state their position on an issue as important as school consolidation.
After the meeting was over
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I’m baffled —Jon Parris
Well-said, Alex. I’m baffled that this website and the local NAACP are against unification… the status-quo has created a haves/have-nots situation that is untenable if we are going to consider ourselves a progressive area. A unified system would bring uniformity to curriculum and scheduling, eliminate redundant administrative positions, and allow (force?) everyone in the county to have a stake in the educational development of all the children in the county. What basically exists now is institutional racism… predominately lower-income minority (& some white) kids attending resource-depleted city schools due to a shrinking tax base, and predominately white middle and upper income kids attending the resource-enriched county schools with an affluent tax base.Continue readingI can see the downside for an older,
May LAKE meeting: The owl in Lake Park
When: 6 PM, Tuesday 3 May 2011
Where: Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q
1088 Lakes Boulevard
Lake Park, GA 31636-3013
(229) 559-0052
That’s on Lakes Blvd at exit 5 off of I-75. They’re open until 9PM.
However, at 7PM the Lake Park City Council meets. We can go see a city council that talks to its people during its meetings!
Help cover food, water, transportation, incarceration, solar energy, biomass, and regular local government meetings: you never know when news will be made!
If you follow the LAKE blog, On the LAKE Front, which you can also see through the LAKE facebook page, you know what we cover, from protesters to private prisons to gardening to schools, all of which turn out to be related. What else do you want to investigate? You can be LAKE, too! Continue reading
Valdosta City Governnment 101
It is an enlightening and eye-opening class you should not miss !”According to the city’s writeup about it:
…is designed to give City of Valdosta residents age 21 and older an inside look at how their city operates daily. Participants will be exposed to all city departments according to the following itinerary:
- April 4 Introduction to Class
- April 11 Public Safety and Municipal Court
- April 18 Engineering, Public Works and Utilities
- April 25 Financial Administration, Industrial and Economic Development
- May 2 Community Building and Neighborhood Development
- May 9 Facility Tour and Graduation
Last year’s class was the first,
with 23 graduates.
For Lowndes County residents who do not live in Valdosta, the equivalent is… Continue reading
Dear elected and appointed officals: please send us material —LAKE
While LAKE would be ecstatic if all elected and appointed bodies did their own PR so we didn’t have to, in the meantime, we’re here, and we do what we can, with a little help from everyone involved.
I’m all for openness —Tom Call
Tom Call called me back about the biomass plant, and we talked about a number of other matters. He remarked that he was not an appointed spokesperson for the Industrial Authority, so this is just him talking.
I asked him about Ashley Paulk’s remarks in the 26 April 2011 Lowndes County Commission meeting. Tom Call said VLCIA was not standing behind any other body, and he clarified what had happened.
He said the biomass plant had been brought to the Industrial Authority by Continue reading
Many interesting comments
- George Boston Rhynes on To Speak or Not To Speak @ VCC 21 April 2011
- Proflowerchild and Leigh Touchton on Runaround
- Leigh Touchton and Bobbi Anne Hancock and Tim Carroll and Michael Noll and Karen Noll on Walk out into the audience
- Leigh Touchton on Listening and Asking
- Leigh Touchton and Karen Noll on Move on, find other avenues, other projects
Please also see our Submissions Policy. Looking forward to your comments.
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Blog tinkering
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Some changes you only see if you post a comment. We’ve tried several variations on comment posting to cut down on spam. You may say “what spam?” but that’s because we usually catch it before you see it. By spam we mean comments (often automated) pretending to be relevant to the blog item but really only there to promote some unrelated topic or to sell something. We hope the current settings will decrease the work involved in catching spam while keeping it easy to comment on recent postings.
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Many owls can see a lot.
To Speak or Not To Speak @ VCC 21 April 2011
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In Council Comments at the end of the 21 April 2011 Valdosta City Council meeting, Sonny Vickers talked about bids.
Then Deidra White said she would attend any meeting where she could hear and reply to citizens’ concerns, but she can can’t say anything about Citizens to be Heard because there’s a Council policy.
That’s interesting, considering that in the previous Valdosta City Council meeting, in Citizens to be Heard, Council Sonny Vickers responded to Dr. Mark George saying that he had already told everyone that he was for the biomass plant. Does this mean that Council supporters of the biomass plant can speak Continue reading
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