Category Georgia

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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Georgia, Watchdog Reports

Orange is the New Deal: AG’s Office & Ethics Chief Ordered to Pay $20k

A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Wednesdsay sanctioned the Attorney General’s Office and state ethics commission director Holly LaBerge and ordered each to pay $10,000 in fines for failing to turn…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 3, 2014

Georgia, News, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

Citizen journalist Violently Restrained at Public Event

There are so many disturbing aspects to this story. An off-duty deputy manhandled a female citizen journalist and slammed her against a table. She still has bruises and pain a week later.…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 2, 2014
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Georgia, News, Opinion, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

Nathan Deal Steps in it Again With $74M Copart Tax Dispute

One month ago I wrote an articled entitled “Are Georgian’s Getting a Raw Deal from Our Governor?” The more we learn about Nathan Deal the clearer that answer becomes. In that article I…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 2, 2014

Georgia, News, Watchdog Reports

Financial State of States Released: Georgia Sinkhole State

Truth in Accounting is a non-partisan group that has been examining the financial health of states since 2002. Their mission statement: To educate and empower citizens with understandable, reliable, and transparent government financial…

Dr. Alan Wood
September 2, 2014

Georgia, Macon, Opinion, Watchdog Reports

Do We Have A Fourth Estate Left To Save?

A double octuple newspaper web press, the industrial machinery behind the old daily newspaper (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).

full rewrite on the decline of local journalism. This replaces my 2014, 2023, and 2025 versions with one account, every statistic checked against the latest State of Local News report and the…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 28, 2014
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Georgia, Politics & Elections

Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls. Who to Believe?

Lies, damned lies, and statistics was an expression made famous by Mark Twain but it is equally as true about modern polling data. I have noticed a trend in recent years where…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 24, 2014
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Crime & Justice, Georgia, Macon, News, Opinion

California Crooks Might Want to Steer Clear of Macon, Georgia

In a story that will likely get widespread national attention if it gets picked up by a major news agency, an armed customer at a local Macon Game Stop store managed to…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 23, 2014
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Georgia, News, Opinion, Politics & Elections

Repealing Obamacare is Unrealistic and Not the Real Goal of Republican Leaders

Whether you are a supporter or detractor of Obamacare, you can not avoid the simple reality that Obamacare won’t be repealed anytime soon. (if ever) At some point pragmatism has to kick…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 23, 2014
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Georgia, Lifestyle, Macon

Ever Wondered who sang the 13 WMAZ Theme Song?

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I am one of those people that never really grew out of the little boy that pestered my parents relentlessly with questions like: who would win between an alligator and a lion…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 15, 2014
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Georgia, News, Politics & Elections

Purple Georgia: Only 55% of Georgians actually Born in the State

The New York Times recently posted a very interesting demographic outlook of all the states with an interactive map. You can view where people were born going all the way back to…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 15, 2014

Georgia, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

Where Nathan Deal’s Georgia Really Ranks

I collected a list of statistics on where Georgia ranks in a lot of important categories but since it was hidden at the bottom of another article, I thought it might be…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 13, 2014

Georgia, Macon, News, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

My Lunch with Andrew Hunt: Libertarian Candidate for Governor

I just returned home from a very enjoyable lunch at Ingleside Village Pizza. The lunch included several supporters in addition to Andrew Hunt and some very good pizza. We were also joined…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 13, 2014

Georgia, Macon, Opinion

An Open Letter to the McClatchty Company: Owners of The Macon Telegraph

To: Patrick J Talamntes, Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zieman, Vice President of Operations, and Donald Bailey, President and Publisher of the Macon Telegraph Dear Messieurs, We the people of middle Georgia understand that…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 11, 2014

Georgia, News

Prayer Rally in Dublin Over Mall Policy Much Ado About Nothing?

I just read an article in the about a story that is gaining widespread national media attention with Fox News and Glen Beck both chiming in. The gist of the story as…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 7, 2014
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Georgia, News, Politics & Elections, Watchdog Reports

Georgia Only State Not To Display Executive Orders

I decided to share this story from the Sunlight Foundation with their permission about the sudden removal of all the executive orders from the governor’s website. The sunlight foundation is a nonpartisan,…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 7, 2014

Georgia, Macon, Pets

Macon Purrs N Paws Desperately Needs Your Help

Americans are a very charitable people. 95.4% of households give to charity and we collectively gave $335.17 billion in 2013. Unfortunately with that much money in play, there are a lot of…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 6, 2014

Georgia, Macon, Watchdog Reports

Georgia has three of the Fastest Shrinking Cities: Macon #7

Georgia has the dubious honor of being the only state in the country to have three cities on the recently released Bloomberg report of the nation’s fastest shrinking cities. In fact, Georgia…

Dr. Alan Wood
August 6, 2014
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