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Videos: Beer, filters, roads, weather, and executive session @ LCC 2013-03-25
A beer license, and some filters for public works: that's all that's on the agenda for the unquestioning Lowndes County Commission. They did have two very brief reports on the weekend's weather and...
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Spilling Sewage Pictures by Gabe Fisher 3:30 PM 24 March 2013
Received yesterday. -jsq Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:43:47 -0400 All, just so everyone is on the same page- the sewer line is currently spilling sewage. It just started at mu house but has been going...
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Prison gang violence
This is what eventually happens in a country with 5% of the world’s population yet 25% of the world’s prisoners, in a state that has 1 in 13 adults in the prison system (jail, prison, probation, or...
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Valdosta PR about wastewater issues
The city of Valdosta responds. I have decorated this PR with a few images with links, and a few comments after it. -jsq Mayor and Council Address Recent Wastewater Issues, The Valdosta Mayor and City...
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Rural hospitals closing
A state that forces hospital closings by refusing Medicare expansion while spending a billion dollars a year on locking up too many prisoners has its priorities wrong. Tom Baxter wrote for...
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Billions for Cape Wind
Wind, wind, blow away the NIMBYs. David Richardson wrote for Grist today, Cape Wind wins billions in backing, launches offshore wind in the U.S. What do you do when local opposition to an offshore...
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U.S. installed 3.3 Gigawatts of solar in 2012, on target
Moore’s law continues to drive solar costs down and installations up. According to SEIA, U.S. Market Installs 3,300 Megawatts in 2012; Driven by Record Fourth Quarter, 2012 was a historic year for the...
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NJ 1 GW Solar: GA #22
While Georgia failed to reform its antique Territorial Electric Service Act and toyed with a solar monopoly, New Jersey, far to the north with far less sun, finished installing a gigawatt (1,000...
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Videos: Tourism Authority February meeting @ VLCCCTA 2013-02-27
Here are videos of the February meeting of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Convention Center and Tourism Authority. We can guess they met again 27 March 2013, but there’s nothing on their website or their...
View ArticleOn the LAKE front has moved
How do you like the new wordpress site for the LAKE blog? We’re still settling in here, so there will probably be some changes yet. Meanwhile, all the old content is here in the new location.
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