Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Reichert Proposes 2011 Budget

I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am again this morning.  You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com.  The phone number is (478) 742-0940.

 

Mayor Robert Reichert presented his 2011 budget to the City Council last night, and it isn't bad.  It spends nearly half of all the money on fire and police, includes no new taxes and a pay scale for city employees.  I'm just wondering how the city can afford to spend more money in 2011 than it did in 2010.

 

The City Council last night voted to give the contract for the pools to the second lowest bidder rather than going with the local guy.  The local guy took to the Telegraph to defend himself, but it was too late.

 

Why is it necessary for the search for a new Bibb Schools Superintendent to include bringing in five specialized search firms?

 

This is more like it:  local musicians are going to try to raise money for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

 

Charles Richardson claims that the county will have to raise taxes to balance its budget this year.

 

Macon and Bibb County have agreed to merge animal control.

 

Three thugs were indicted for a murder that happened in December.

 

The Macon Telegraph is wrong in calling the failure to read about 900 mammograms a "mistake."  It was not a mistake, it was laziness and incompetence.

 

The Houston County Board of Education decided that they will get rid of many of the part-time retired employees.  They also claim to have cut a lot of fat from the Central Office.

 

After watching the second part of the Fox5 report on Highway 96, I am even more convinced that this was nothing but an attempted hatchet job on Governor Perdue by Dale Russell.

 

After sending out an e-mail to alumni asking them to tell the General Assembly to preserve funding for Mercer University, President William Underwood is happy to send out another one pointing out that Mercer will actually get more tax dollars this year than they did last year.

 

The AARP and other welfare-baiting groups are asking Governor Perdue to veto the bill that eliminates the refundable portion of a tax credit for poor people.

 

Tuition at schools in the University System of Georgia will increase by up to 16% next year.  Thank goodness the students are already home, so we can be spared campus protests.

 

Former State Senator and current Republican candidate for Governor Eric Johnson wants students to be required to prove that they are legal citizens of the United States before they are allowed to attend Georgia taxpayer-funded colleges.  Makes perfect sense to me.

 

Don't believe this claim that taxes are lower this year.  The only reason people are paying fewer taxes is because fewer people are paying taxes.

 

Young people today trust the federal government.  If you notice, however, that is only because they have extreme feelings of hopeychangeyness.

 

Here's a shocker:  As people move left on the ideological spectrum, they also tend to know much less about economics.

 

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) thinks that climate science should be explained on a sixth-grade level.  That's still too advanced for most members of Congress, and for many of their constituents.

 

In a real emergency, a drifting satellite could threaten cable television programming.  We have to nuke the drifting satellite.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Confusion Over Highway 96

I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am again this morning.  You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com.  The phone number is (478) 742-0940.

 

A 14-year-old girl stabbed a boy in the arm on Sunday.

 

A woman swung her purse to prevent it from being stolen yesterday morning in Macon.

 

Shots were fired at two women and two children on Shurling Drive.

 

We have a description of the Tattnall Square Park shooter from Sunday night.

 

Three teens were arrested after a fight at the Georgia State Fair on Saturday.

 

A man was arrested after an apparent drive-by shooting last Thursday night.

 

In something we hear far too little of, a Lizella teen was given a life sentence for the third of the gas station murders.

 

The NAACP and SCLC are leading marches in Dublin because two black principles did not get their contracts renewed this year.  Note to the race-baiting groups:  they are not entitled to jobs.

 

Environmental groups have filed lawsuits to prevent construction on the new coal-fired power plant in Washington County.

 

The Perry Hospital says that about 900 mammograms were never read but the patients still received clean bills of health.  I smell a much-deserved lawsuit coming.

 

Students in the University System of Georgia will find out today how much their tuition will increase.  Expect the usual whining from college students over having to actually pay for a service they want.  Over 40% of those students won't graduate anyway.  Maybe the college students can blame the University System for allowing some criminal aliens to receive in-state tuition.

 

After reading the article and watching the Fox5 piece, I honestly do not see what the big deal is about the Highway 96 widening.

 

Congressman Tom Price changed his endorsement in the race for Governor from Nathan Deal to Karen Handel, which Deal blamed on the fact that Price has not been a lifelong Georgian.

 

Some Georgia schools are now installing "calming rooms" for kids who won't behave.  If you feel bad about cuts to education, stop.

 

The American Family Association wants Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, to answer the rumors about whether or not she is a lesbian.  They think that being a lesbian would disqualify her from the Supreme Court.

 

People are turning down jobs because they can make almost as much money on unemployment.  This is why we have Mexicans doing jobs like landscaping.

 

Scientists say that they have found sunken islands in the Caribbean.  I guess Hank Johnson was right.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Bibb Considering Tax Hike

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Friday, May 07, 2010

Macon Thugs Busy Again

I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am again this morning.  You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com.  The phone number is (478) 742-0940.

 

Bibb County deputies busted a meth lab in south Bibb County Tuesday night.  The mug shots are pretty much what you'd expect from people running a meth lab.

 

A woman was robbed and shot at an ATM drive-through on Bloomfield Road Wednesday night.

 

Macon police are investigating an alleged rape, but the local media won't let us help them find the suspects.

 

A man was attacked by the same robber twice in one night yesterday.  Here's your description of the suspect.

 

A lover's quarrel turned violent when a 17-year-old girl stabbed her 16-year-old boyfriend.

 

Macon Police tasered a man for trying to steal deodorant from the CVS on Pio Nono Avenue.

 

Houston County Schools Superintendent David Carpenter says that the schools will be facing more budget cuts because the state didn't raise taxes enough for his liking this year.

 

Some confidential records were stolen from the Warner Robins Redevelopment Agency offices, and it looks like it was somebody who knew what they were looking for.

 

Thanks in part to their protected class of senior citizens, Centerville's budget shortfall could be as large as a half million dollars.

 

The state has fallen in love with sales taxes because ultimately we are the ones who do the tax raising and the politicians come across looking innocent in the matter.

 

In continuing to prove that the government education system has nothing to do with education, seven school districts are suing the state over the Georgia Charter Schools Commission.  It's all about money.

 

Voters in Bartow County on Tuesday will have their Driver's License scanned to verify identification.

 

A 14-year-old student in Athens was arrested after he brought a sword to school.

 

United States Attorney General Eric Holder called Georgia's proposed new gun law allowing permit holders to carry in airports "very worrisome."

 

Those well-known homosexuals from the Westboro Baptist Church were upstaged by peacefully-protesting students.  Good for the students.

 

The South is home to more momma's boys than any other part of the country.

 

Does the United States Constitution really need a warning label?

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Back On The Air!

I will be on News/Talk 940 WMAC 6-9am again this morning.  You can also listen online at www.wmac-am.com.  The phone number is (478) 742-0940.

 

The Bibb County Commission is pushing forward with a July SPLOST vote.  I think if Charles Richardson could vote for it today he would.

 

The Twiggs County Sheriff's Office has released a composite sketch of a guy who broke into a woman's home and stabbed her Monday morning.  It would be nice if Macon and Bibb County would do that from time to time.

 

Students at Hawkinsville High School responsible for the senior prank gone bad face felony charges.

 

Two men have been charged with a string of church burglaries in Washington County.  There has to be a special place in hell for people who steal from churches.

 

A Bibb County first grader was suspended after a BB gun was found in his backpack.

 

The Macon Police Department had its accreditation renewed.  Now if only they were able to get a hold on the crime in the city.

 

In the "Why are we spending taxpayer money on that?" file, the Booker T. Washington Community Center, which was taken over by the city last year, still can't pay its bills.  Macon City Council can't decide who they want to manage the city's money-losing pools.  Bibb County is working to crack down on abandoned homes by demolishing many of them.

 

Tommy Stalnaker, who is running unopposed for Houston County Commission Chairman, understands that people feel that they are already being taxed enough.  Good for him.

 

White County, in North Georgia, recently started allowing alcohol to be sold at restaurants and stores.  It turned out to be a very lucrative revenue source.

 

A kid pulled a gun on a school bus in Lafayette after being hit by a Twinkie.

 

Only 7,400 "Super Speeder" tickets have been given out so far this year.  If this is true, it's a big problem for the state.

 

Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, in an attempt to use his current office to try to become Governor, is investigating Blue Cross Blue Shield and their parent company for rate increases.

 

The girl with whom Ray McBerry had an inappropriate relationship is finally going public with her story.

 

In response to the McBerry issue, Karen Handel is refusing to participate in any debates in which McBerry is participating.  She's already gotten her wish with one this weekend, although McBerry is threatening the organizer of the event until he gets his way.  Handel may miss the big Atlanta Press Club debate as a result of her principled stand.

 

Thurbert Baker released a jobs plan yesterday, and he still can only get second billing to Roy Barnes releasing his tax returns.

 

The wailing and gnashing of teeth over teachers losing their jobs continues as the state's second largest teachers' group formally opposed Georgia's attempt to get Race To The Top federal funds because it would require more teacher accountability.  Remember, the government education system does not exist to educate; it exists to create jobs for teachers and bureaucrats and votes for politicians.

 

A cake to honor Braves manager Bobby Cox in Washington, DC had a very unfortunate and inappropriate misspelling of his name.

 

There are more blacks running for Congress as Republicans this year than any year since Reconstruction.

 

A chef in China died after his friends put an eel up his rectum while he was passed out drunk.  The eel ate his bowels.

 

Lindsay Lohan is going to play a porn star in a movie.  No, it is not a porn movie.  Not that I'd be surprised by that either.