I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am for the rest of the week. You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com. The phone number is (478) 742-0940.
The Macon Transit Authority has begun phasing in new, smaller buses for its fleet. These will still probably be mostly empty, but it won't be quite as obvious.
An Ingram-Pye Elementary student was suspended for bringing a toy gun to school.
It looks more and more like there will not be a vote on consolidation in Macon and Bibb County.
The Houston County Board of Education made some budget cuts yesterday. They whined about how horrible it was, but finally they did it. I still think they will increase taxes this year.
Ben Roethlisberger will be suspended for 6 games this season by the NFL for his personal conduct.
The General Assembly passed a watered-down joke of an ethics bill yesterday, but now they can say that they did something.
Out of nowhere yesterday, both houses of the General Assembly passed a transportation bill that would allow for regional sales taxes to be imposed to pay for transportation projects.
Attorney General Thurbert Baker questions the legality of the package of tax breaks and increases that the legislature passed last week.
The state Senate passed the budget yesterday. It does include funding for the Halls of Fame in Macon and for the Georgia Arts Council. It does not include one welfare check that the state has been sending low-income residents, which really bothers the redistributionists at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.
Here's a list of some of the other stuff that passed the House or the Senate yesterday.
State Rep. Mark Hatfield (R-Waycross) has gone legislative birther, introducing a bill that would require any candidate running for President in Georgia to show documentation of their eligibility to serve as President. Meanwhile, Hawaii is about to pass a bill telling birthers to leave them alone.
Will Austin Scott drop out of the race for Governor and run for Lieutenant Governor instead?
Some Henry County parents are not happy about rapper T.I. making a visit to their child's middle school as part of his community service.
Environmentalists are already trying to scare people about the new nuclear reactors set to be built outside Augusta.
The group of closeted homosexuals who call themselves the Westboro Baptist Church are coming to Atlanta next month.
Those Hitler parodies are being pulled off of YouTube.
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