![](http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/Omb8x0x2quA/1.jpg)
![](http://www.bluestem.ca/thumbnails/miscanthus-adagio.jpg)
After all the citizens left –Valdosta City Council, 20 Jan 2011.
Now call me old-fashioned, but I prefer local farmers growing food Continue reading
Now call me old-fashioned, but I prefer local farmers growing food Continue reading
It’s not like what they were saying was a secret. The VDT reporter was there. They were finishing up the agenda with the sections “7. City Manager’s Report” and “8. Council Comments”. You can see them adjourn at the end. Some of them groused about the time citizens take up in “Citizens Wishing to be Heard”.
But remember, almost none of those citizens bothered to stay around to listen to them. Among the stay-latest: two cameras for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, providing you these two views: Continue reading
Video by John S. Quarterman of the regular meeting of the Valdosta City Council, 20 January 2011, for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Continue readingFaith In Technology Is What Got Us Into This Mess
by Matt FlumerfeltMany people in the Valdosta-Lowndes County community have faith that the proposed Biomass incinerator won’t harm anyone or anything, but faith in technology is what got us into our current environmental mess in the first place. Those old enough to remember the nuclear power debate will remember how many people gave assurances that nuclear power was safe, yet we see today how difficult nuclear waste is to dispose of and how much damage it has caused when things go wrong, which, human nature being what it is, they inevitably do. The recent gulf oil spill would not have happened if
Video by John S. Quarterman of the
regular meeting of the Valdosta City Council, 20 January 2011
for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
-jsq
“I think we can do better than a generator that burns human waste. I think we can do better than a private prison and those are two things that we seem to be excited about as a community.”Dr. Mark George spoke to the Valdosta City Council, 20 Jan 2011:
We’ve previously written about CCA private prisons and AZ immigration law on 21 December 2010:
Considering how many local farmers and others around here use hispanic help without inquiring closely as to where they come from, a CCA prison in Lowndes County would be more than ironic.And in If it’s sunny enough in Buffalo on 16 September 2010: Continue readingSpending state tax dollars to lock people up while cutting funding for education that would cost less per person doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
Is this what we want to be known for?