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(Note: I have a special dispensation from the Archdiocese of Atlanta to discuss this special matter involving the mayor of Macon notwithstanding the fact that I gave him up for Lent. And I’m not even Catholic.)
At a hastily called news conference this afternoon Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis sought to explain the shortcomings in [...]

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Does reading about the $15 million error in city accounting procedures make you gag? Are you like Councilman Cole Thomason?
“You look at that thing,” Thomason was quoted in Matt Barnwell’s article’s in the Telegraph this morning, “and you’ll be nauseous. That’s how I feel about it. I feel like throwing up.”
How do you feel [...]

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Matt Barnwell writes in this morning’s Used-To-Be-Macon-Telegraph that Macon’s new auditor has uncovered a - gulp! - $15 million error in the city’s books.
Instead of having a $5 million surplus in the city’s general fund, there is a $10 million deficit. Other irregularities, too disturbing to report over breakfast, were uncovered.
The problems were reported [...]

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A Macon City Council committee today tabled a proposal by (I can’t mention his name during Lent) to spend $500,000 on red light cameras after a law was found prohibiting paying the camera vendor from fines generated from the cameras. (Good thing that law was found in time.)
On a seemingly unrelated front, Macon’s panhandling [...]

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Jim Carson, a good friend of mine, retired from law practice in Macon a few years ago (too early, I thought) by reason of having a real second talent. He’s a “plein air”, or outdoors painter, now living in Saluda, North Carolina. Take a look at his web site by clicking here. [...]

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To review, State Senator Robert Brown, the Last King of Macon, has exercised his regal veto of the City Council’s previous 14-0 vote to downsize itself from 15 to 11 members. the King wants to downsize City Council his way or no way. Here are the choices:
The City Council’s way:

Do away with at-large [...]

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I received this email from Nancy White, Ward V City Council member, on Saturday and thought I’d pass it on:
Dear Friends,
The City of Macon is holding a Public Hearing on Red Light Cameras on Monday, February 26, 3:00 p.m., in the Municipal Court Room. Immediately following this Public Hearing, the Public Safety Committee will [...]

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A reader emailed me saying that on Sundays during Lent I had a dispensation and could say all I wanted to about you-know-who.
I replied that I thought you had to get a special dispensation from the Archdiocese and I didn’t know anyone at the Archdiocese, but that if you-know-who stepped into any you-know-what during the [...]

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Pertinent Politics, the Telegraph blog run by Charles Richardson and Phil Dodson, announced that the “anonymous” choice would no longer be available for people leaving comments.
The names of the first three people leaving a comment to this announcement? “Anonymous”.

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Everywhere we’ve turned for the past few years there’s been C. Jack doing everything but running the city. He started out with simple neglect of his CEO duties as he jetted back and forth to Ghana. But he moved beyond that to culture shock as he changed his name to Hakim Mansour [...]

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