Two Regular Sessions back, they started with a moment of silence for Mike Everett, recently deceased employee of the Public Works department. The obituary in the VDT, 14 July 2014, Michael Thomas Everett, a senior heavy equipment operator with Lowndes county and long time resident of Berrien County, GA, died unexpectedly on July 9, 2017 […]
Received yesterday via email: Dear Stakeholders, I am pleased to let you know that the Valdosta Urbanized Area Transit Implementation Study is well under development and it is time to share the draft recommendations with you and with the community. With your help, we reached over 500 members of the community through our online survey […]
What if, in addition to the record floods of 2009 and 2013 and 2014 apparently caused by local lack of planning in our watersheds, what if we got 15 inches of rain in one 24 hour period like Pensacola did a few weeks ago? Local governments might get sued by insurers for lack of planning, […]
Somebody is willing to read the sunshine writing: Renewables are Winning, Nukes are Dead and Coal is Crashing, as Kathleen Rogers and Danny Kennedy wrote for EcoWatch 14 Dec 2012. As I wrote back in April when formerly coal-plotting Cobb EMC went solar: Coal is dead. Nuclear is going down. Solar will eat the lunch […]
With all precincts reporting in the Republican Primary Runoff for Lowndes County Commission District 5 (West half of the county), the numbers are: Jody T. Hall 48.06% 855 John P. Page 51.94% 924 Total votes 1,779 So how is the election not decided yet? Provisional ballots, which won’t be completely sorted out until Friday. Those […]
Parker Wallace wrote for GPB 1 August 2012, Water Program Awards Loans, The Governor’s water supply program awarded funding to eight water supply projects across the state. The Georgia Environmental Finance Authority and the Georgia Department of Community affairs announced more than 90 million dollars in loans. They’re aimed at helping finance water supply infrastructure. […]
Received yesterday on Smart Metering in Finland Compared to Georgia Power; also as a facebook note. -jsq ONLY a monopoly like Georgia Power can proclaim to be “environmentally responsible” yet operate some of the worst coal power plants in the nation. Its Scherer Plant near Macon even leads the pack in regard to greenhouse gas […]
Somebody finally set the invisible clock in front of the Lowndes County Commission Chairman: for the first time in recent memory, they started on time, instead of four or five minutes before the announced start time. Even the old dog on the phone was surprised. The whole meeting took about seven minutes long. Note the […]
Water, the next oil: many big companies have already been betting on that for years now. Do we want privatize companies controling our water supplies for their profit, running up prices at our expense? We can prevent that, and we should get on with it. Jeneen Interlandi wrote for Newsweek 8 October 2010, The New […]
Solar power is the smart thing to do for jobs, energy independence, and profit. It’s also what we need to do to save water. Julia Pyper and ClimateWire wrote for Scientific American 29 June 2012, Electricity Generation ‘Burning’ Rivers of Drought-Scorched Southeast: A new report reckons the water cost of electricity generation Power plants are […]