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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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“Dr. Smith, I’m terribly conflicted,” the man said, taking his place on his psychiatrist’s couch.
“Why is that, Mr. MacNally?” Dr. Smith asked.
“I’ve done something I’ve never done before in my life,” Mr. MacNally continued. “I can’t get it out of my mind. It’s tearing me up. I can’t sleep at night. [...]

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Welcome to Macon Mayoral Buzzword Bingo! As the candidates for Macon’s next mayor make their final pleas for our votes, you will notice their tendency to use buzzwords when discussing complicated issues facing our community.
You’ll find a Bingo board below. Instead of a number, you’ll find a buzzword. When a mayoral candidate uses [...]

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The City Council Appropriations Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow. I’m told they’ve asked a local expert in municipal bond matters who doesn’t have a “dog in the hunt” to go over the Noble Investment Group proposal with them.
The bond expert may also compare the Noble plan to the National Ventures plan. If [...]

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“Hello, Cartese?”
“Yes, Mama.”
“Cartese, this is your mother, Thelma Dillard, and I am a candidate for mayor of the city of Macon.”
“I know that, Mama.”
“And I am mad with you, girl.”
“What did I do, Mama?”
“You have gone and qualified to run for City Council, that’s what you did. Now I told you you could not [...]

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Read this from Amy Morton’s post on the Tondee’s Tavern blog:
There’s been buzz about whether or not the current Mayor, C. Jack Ellis, will run for a citywide spot on council with the hope of becoming Council President. The conspiracy theories go like this: (Robert) Brown and Ellis hatched a plan some time ago to [...]

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The ajc.com Political Insider blog reports that Robert Brown is going to run for mayor of Macon:
We’ve just been told that Senate Minority Leader Robert Brown (D-Macon) will leave his seat in the Legislature to run for mayor of Macon. Qualifying is next month, and the primary for the partisan race is July 17.
Brown, whose [...]

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Is electing a mayor really the best way to select Macon’s next CEO? Isn’t that methodology getting a little old fashioned? After all, we’ve been through a tough eight years with the soon-to-be ex-mayor C. Jack Ellis. We really need to get it right this time.
Why can’t we select a new [...]

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In More on King’s veto of a small City Council, we sampled how other cities in Georgia handled in-ward vs at-large city council election choices:

The unified government of Augusta-Richmond County has eight commissioners, none of which are at-large.
The Columbus Consolidated Government has ten members of its City Council, including only two at-large districts (and that’s [...]

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