The newly drawn district poses some serious difficulties for Barrow — or for any Democrat. But Barrow could certainly survive, and there’s no doubt that the race will continue to attract national attention.
Down here on the coast, we don’t have the transportation problems that Atlanta has, for sure, but we have some much-wanted projects that need a lot of funding. So what happens now?
If DeLoach stays above 50 percent, and it seems virtually certain that he will, he’ll face Al Scott in the fall.
UPDATE: T-SPLOST was soundly defeated in the 10-county Coastal Region.
I’ll go out on a limb and make a couple of predictions: T-SPLOST will get 55 percent of the vote here in Chatham County, but will get only 46 percent of the vote in our region.
American businesses have every right to take public positions on controversial issues. If they want to mix business and politics, that’s up to them. Consumers have every right to mix business and politics too.
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“he dominant reason, according to one narrative prevalent among city planners, is that young folks gravitate to high-energy, walkable, eclectic neighborhoods where they don’t need cars — and that projects like Portland’s streetcar help create those neighborhoods.”
Montgomery Bank & Trust in Ailey (just outside Vidalia), which failed Friday, was “saved” by an investment fund a year and a half ago that turns out to have been fraudulent. One of the directors of the bank also ran the fund, which swindled investors out of millions of dollars. That bank director, Aubrey Lee Price, is now missing and so is the money.
I’m going to bet that the Affordable Care Act is going to become significantly more popular now that Americans are increasingly focused on the law’s practical effects.
Obamacare supporters never liked to call the mandate a tax, but that simple reality seems to have been at the heart of the 5-4 Supreme Court decision today.
Call me a liberal on immigration issues, but my opinions aren’t far from those of Haley Barbour, of all people.
