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Boards must consider wishes of community
1/6/2009
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Please take note if you are one of the men and women who will be seated for the first time on the Glynn County Board of Education and the Glynn County Commission in the upcoming days: The community expects you to carry those policies which have been successful and change those which have not.
Moreover, it expects you to represent everyone, not just yourself, like so many county commissioners have and continue to do.
For new members of the school board, this should be a cinch. Just stay on the path the board is on now. It's one that seems to have the interests of the children at heart - one that puts the education of preteens and teens ahead of what are often disruptive personnel, self-serving goals or objectives.
The community has seen what happens when those elected to guide education put themselves and their selfish wants ahead of all else. Glynn County public schools nearly lost their accreditation.
Continue to focus on the dropout problem and on providing the best preparation for life after high school to the thousands of young people whose minds the community is entrusting you with, and be ready to push forward when the Golden Isles Career Academy opens.
As for the new members of the county commission, we ask this: At the very least, listen. Don't shut out the public like the current commission has for so many years.
This has been a consistent problem. How many times, for example, has the community heard that "this is a done deal" from county commissioners? Too often, for sure.
Consider, for example, the commission's slighting of straw polls conducted by their own political parties. There was the one where the majority said it favored keeping the public pool where it was on St. Simons Island.
Members like Tony Thaw and Don Hogan tossed public opinion into the trash bin and proceeded to press on with their own ideas.
Then there was the one where 70-plus percent of those voting last July favored moving the county jail out of downtown Brunswick.
Again, members like Thaw and Hogan ignored the wishes of the people and stuck with their own agenda, dragging most of the other commissioners behind them.
Be your own person. Do not allow yourself to be bullied. There are already enough know-it-all, all-for-me egos on the governing board.
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Auto Bailout
Georgia's Senators and Representatives should be ashamed of themselves for voting against the automaker bailout! The misinformation and distortion of fact that these men spew is sickening! They had no qualms about approving the Wall Street Bailout because those are the guys that rub elbows with them. However, these guys must get their facts straight!!! Autoworkers DO NOT make the equivalent of $75 per hour!!! Their pay is far below that amount. It was recently shown that the "Big 3" pay their workers within just a few dollars of what Honda, Toyota, Hyundai & Nissan pay their US employees. Also, its not just the factory workers affected by this possible collapse. Have the Georgia Republicans forgotten the hundreds of GM, Ford and Chrysler dealers in this state?! The Bill Heard dealership headquartered in Georgia (one of the largest GM dealers in the USA) has gone under causing over 2000 job losses!!! I guarantee that there are more dealers to close all over this state causing even more job loss!!! Far more job losses in Georgia than the Wall Street could have even imagined! Think about how many people you or I know that either work for an auto dealer, service station, auto parts store, tire store, parts manufacturers, transportation and/or delivery of auto parts. ALL OF THOSE SECTORS ARE AFFECTED!!! Wake up Chambliss, Isakson and Kingston!! Start helping your middle-class costituents instead of your upper-class golfing buddies.
MAG
12/16/2008
Question!
Is there a question on the driver license test about moving to the highways edge and stopping when approached by an emergency vehicle. Are older drivers telling the younger passengers why they are stoppping for the emergency vehicles. I don't think so!
LG
11/11/2008