05.24
Candidate qualification for the July primary vote began yesterday morning and will continue through the rest of the week, ending Friday at noon. Details are beginning to trickle in:
Steve Tarvin will be running against Jay Neal to represent GA House district 2.. Disappointing; we were hoping he’d take on Jeff Mullis (who stinks) instead of the area’s only decent state legislator.
Tarvin is OK, but Jay is too.. We need somebody with some credentials and state-wide support to run against Mullis, and there doesn’t seem to be anyone except Tarvin with that kind of resume.
We’ve heard of no opposition for Mullis so far this year. Without an opponent he will only need to raise eighty or ninety thousand in out-of-state campaign donations instead of $200k.
Another surprise candidate qualification: Tim Westbrook has signed up to run for Walker Sheriff on the Democratic ticket. Looks like the sheriff race won’t be done until at least November.
Alan Painter is running for GA House District 1 (Dade, Rossville/Kensington/Lookout Mtn). Qualification for those state offices has to be done in Atlanta, which is where Alan was on Wednesday in the photo at right.
Mohawk will be adding around 500 positions to its Summerville facility over the next five years.
Jobs! Real jobs, not trash sorting/water bottling/worm turd harvesting jobs like we get in Walker County.
Bebe Heiskell can’t claim to have anything to do with this, but Jeff Mullis is taking credit, along with Nathan Deal and every government official in Summerville and Chattooga County from dog catcher up through commissioner.
WQCH Radio, 05/23/2012:
- “THE WALKER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS APPROVED AN ARCHITECTURAL CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION WORK AT LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL. NEUHOFF TAYLOR ARCHITECTS GOT THE NOD FOR PROJECTS INCLUDING A NEW FOOTBALL FIELD HOUSE, PLUS THE ADDITION OF CLASSROOMS AND MODIFICATIONS IN THE EXISTING SCIENCE LABS. CHRIS JONES, DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS, TOLD THE BOARD HE HAD MET RECENTLY WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND COACHING STAFF AT LAFAYETTE HIGH TO COME UP WITH PRELIMINARY IDEAS FOR THE NEW FIELD HOUSE.”
Despite recent job cuts and budget problems within the school system, construction of new schools, renovations at existing schools, and new athletic facilities continues. That’s because those things are being funded with ESPLOST sales tax revenues that can’t legally be used for operating costs (like salaries), only construction and acquisition of property.
In March 2011 LU warned that the tax measure would pay for a lot of athletic facilities, and not a lot of the core things actually needed, but nobody listens to us..
GDOT crews are mowing state roads in Walker County this week. Was supposed to begin Wednesday.
Hutcheson lost another $1.9 million last month – that’s $9 million so far this year. They’ve burned through $11.4 million of the $20 million in loans from Erlanger.
Meanwhile, Erlanger’s bond rating has been downgraded because of its own financial troubles.
Chattanooga Times Free Press, 05/23/2012: “In a study released last year, Georgia received a B, while Alabama and Tennessee each received a C for children’s dental health within certain benchmarks.”
Another inmate fight at Hays on Monday sent one prisoner to spend some time in the hospital.
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Anyone to let you support their business must be dumb, even more dumb to PAY you to do it.
It looks like someone flunked English 101 … speaking of dumb.
Yeah, making big money of those penny ads…they’d not be dumb for advertising here…they’d be very smart…they’d get a ton of people to see it all the time – however, they might regret it when the powers that be disapprove. I think that might be changing soon though.