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I know we’re all grateful that Hizexhonor C. (for “Can you say ‘Thank goodness he’’s gone?’”) Jack Ellis has found gainful employment.  From the web pages of the Used-To-Be-Macon-Telegraph:
Jack Ellis has been designated an honorary consul by the east African country of Uganda, the former Macon mayor announced Friday in a news release.
Ellis will oversee [...]

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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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andrew Blascovich
Mayor’s Office, City of Macon
478-751-7235 office
478-751-7931 fax
andrew.blascovich@macon.ga.us
Mayor’s Ladies Night Out on Thursday June 19 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Macon, GA, 6/17/08 - On Thursday June 19, 2008 Mayor Robert Augustus Bacon Reichert will hold a Mayor’s Ladies Night Out at City Hall. Mayor Reichert hopes that this event will [...]

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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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I’m on thin ice here, I acknowledge, and welcome someone with understanding and knowledge greater than mine. But consider these items drawn from disparate sources:

The 2005 SPLOST will have raised its goal prior to the 2009 target date: “This SPLOST is set to run until March 2009, but officials say that by the end [...]

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Mayor Reichert has proposed a budget to Macon City Council that includes the privatization of the city’s garbage services. Bibb County uses a private garbage pickup service and a nine year old study indicated that almost half of the Georgia cities responding used private garbage services.
But City Council has balked, saying it wants more [...]

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To privatize garbage collection or not to privatize garbage collection - that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the body politic to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous public works employees who may face normal private enterprise employment practices, including drug testing,
Or to take arms against those who would create a sea of troubles for [...]

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“I was worried for a while,” longtime city councilwoman Elaine Lucas said.
“It just didn’t feel right,” councilman Rick Hutto added.
“I’m new around here but I could tell something was wrong,” added City Council member Erick-Woods Erickson.
What they’re talking about, of course, is the recent apparent correction in relations between Macon’s Mayor Robert Reichert and [...]

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It was a good try while it lasted. But, like Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, the Bibb County commissioners thought that Mayor Reichert’s annexation plan had to be put down. And this afternoon Joe Allen and Elmo Richardson, at a commissioner’s committee meeting, did just that.
You’ll have to read The [...]

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