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Open Thread: Disclosure Deadline Edition
I know all y’all are going to be getting up close and personal with the disclosure reports today. So, please, do come back here and fill us in on the surprises and disappointments you find.
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“We’re in trouble in Georgia.”
Yesterday’s New York Times had a depressingly bleak story cataloguing all the problems with Georgia’s chronically underfunded public defender system, in which former state Supreme Court justice Arthur Fletcher made the statement above. The article was prompted by a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling that a death penalty defendant should have accepted the public defenders appointed for him by now-resigned […]
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Chickens and Eggs
Interesting story on Eatocracy about Farmers Markets in Atlanta…check it out.
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Creating Jobs the Alvin Greene Way
Sweet. Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can make toys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmas for the […]
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Russell Edwards is pretty smart
A quick update from God’s own country, Athens. Our regional embarrassment Congressman, Paul Broun is deigning to come visit Athens for a town hall. (Presumably, he’ll be wearing protective clothing, so he doesn’t get our liberal cooties all over him.) Smartly, his Democratic opponent says stay away from the crazy. Russell Edwards, the smart young […]
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Who is really failing in Georgia?
The AJC recently published an article on certain schools and systems do not retain students automatically after failing the CRCT. This sort of ‘window dressing’ coverage doesn’t really give the issue the depth it requires, but it does allow the reader to come to an easy conclusion: that public schools are not doing their job. […]
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