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Business & Finance, Georgia, News, Politics & Elections

How’d they find $1 billion, with no tax hike for Georgia Transportation? Hint: They didn’t

Jay Bookman discussed the newly found $1 billion in transportation funding in Georgia and reaches a pretty obvious conclusion. They want to force local governments to play the fall guys and take…

Dr. Alan Wood
January 30, 2015

Business & Finance, News, Opinion

An Explanation On Why Being Poor Can Be Very Expensive

I read an op-ed piece on the New York Times today about this subject and it got me thinking. A few of the reasons he cited included taxes and the fees for…

Dr. Alan Wood
January 19, 2015
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Business & Finance, Macon, News

Parent Company of Macon Telegraph, The McClatchy Company Facing Tough Times

The McClatchy Company (stock symbol MNI) closed trading today at $2.95 a share. In March of 2005 it traded at $74 a share. McClatchy is based in Scaramento, CA and operates 30 daily…

Dr. Alan Wood
January 13, 2015

Business & Finance, Georgia

Georgia had the nation’s highest jobless rate in September

By Greg Bluestein Georgia’s 7.9 percent unemployment rate for the month of September was again ranked highest in the nation, according to a federal report released this morning. The state’s jobless rate…

Dr. Alan Wood
October 21, 2014

Business & Finance, Education, Georgia, News, Opinion, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

Admission of Guilt, Without an Admission of Guilt?

For over a year now a group of concerned citizens has been actively seeking the truth about decisions made at the Laurens County Board of Education. It all began with a plan…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 19, 2014

Business & Finance, Education, Georgia, News, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

Reverse Decisions and Hidden Agendas at Laurens School Board

The Reason To Remove Tim Passmore Becoming Clearer Just when the citizens of Laurens County thought that things couldn’t possibly get any worse at our School Board, we were proven wrong. It is…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 8, 2014
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Business & Finance, News, Opinion, Watchdog Reports

Glass-Steagall Repeal: 26 Years On, the Wall Is Still Down

Lehman Brothers headquarters in Times Square, New York. Photo by David Shankbone, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons.

On November 12, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the wall American law had kept between commercial banking and investment banking since the Great Depression came down with a…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 5, 2014