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Event #1: Macon hosts a half-day crime symposium on Friday August 22nd.
Event #2: Macon hosts a weekend of six shootings on Sunday, August, 24th.
Let’s don’t host anymore crime symposiums.

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“Probe” has been the word de jour at The Telegraph this week:
“Reichert discusses probe, massage parlors” macon.com 7/23/2008
“Mayor Reichert to offer $100K in Ellis-era probe” macon.com 7/25/2008
“The Macon finance probe” Lucid Idiocy (Politics) macon.com 7/25/2008
The term has been used to characterize the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice of the city’s administration of a [...]

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You thought we’d gotten rid of him, didn’t you?  Thought that those never ending eight years had finally ended, didn’t you?
Well, as Gomer used to say: surprise, surprise, surprise.
Until we ferret out all that is hidden away in all the nooks and crannies of City Hall where the Jackster swept away things to be dealt [...]

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“Police captain’s transfer continues to create sparks at Macon City Hall” macon.com 7/23/2007

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Captain Tooey White of the Macon Police Department was conducting a training meeting with the members of MPD who were going undercover to participate in the second phase of Operation Massage Parlor.
“Gentlemen, we’re going to be discussing the techniques you are going to be using when you go into a massage parlor and try to [...]

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From an article by Matt Barnwell posted on today’s macon.com:
Meanwhile, (Macon City Council) has been luke warm at best to the idea of privatizing garbage collection…
(Council member Ed) DeFore told administration officials they still do not have enough votes on the council to pass privatization.
“They’re not going to do it,” he said. “And y’all can [...]

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From a letter to the Used-To-Be-Macon Telegraph this morning from George Couto:
Macon City Council may look different, but it still acts the same. After the last election I feel the people of Macon made their thoughts pretty clear. But, once in office the council takes on a mind of its own.
The city is shrinking; Macon’s [...]

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Borrowing from the thought flow process concept of David Bourgeois on the great 23/6 website, I thought it would be fun to explore Rep. Allen Peake’s thinking as he explores ways to bring Macon and Bibb County together in this consolidation thing.
You remember that while Mayor Reichert was trying to put annexation on the table, [...]

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From: Mr. David Appiah
Intercreditor Bank of Ghana, Ltd.
Two Thorpe Road
Accra Ghana
Dear friend in Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.,
I am Mr. David Appiah, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of the Intercreditor Bank of Ghana, Ltd. With due respect and regards, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will [...]

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