One thing very obvious since the firing of our former City Manager by the Columbus GA Council is that it’s shown we don’t need a City Manager and TWO Deputy City Managers… Heck.. it doesn’t even feel like we need a new City Manager, much less a new City Manager and TWO Deputies at all.. how about eliminating one of those jobs ….

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Time to update Alabama's Coach's name after losing to Oklahoma...at home... Think this is more than appropriate... "Killin' Debacle"

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Online headline/story: "College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools * What happens when a child is promoted, grade by grade, through America’s K-12 school system but can’t actually perform at grade level in reading, writing or math? * As the University of California at San Diego found, they get into college — and become someone else’s problem. * In 2023, 13% of students who took a UC San Diego math assessment could not perform at first-grade level, and 25% of kids got the equation 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6 wrong. * This was a giant error, as Harvard University found: In 2024, it too had to add a remedial class for incoming freshmen who lacked “foundational skills” in basic high school math, after admitting them without a standardized measure of their readiness for college.” – And while I haven’t seen reports on how it is now at Columbus GA State University, I do remember 15 years ago (+/- 2 years) when CSU, under Dr Mescon, proudly announced a new enrollment record of about 4,000 new freshmen , but that about a  thousand of those  were having to take remedial math at the Columbus Technology Center, and I do remember when the Graduation Test for high school seniors in Muscogee County was eliminated and the graduation number soared here in Columbus…Tell me how the grads and community benefit…

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Online story: "Federal payroll costs ballooned from $217 billion during fiscal 2020 to $270 billion by the end of fiscal 2024, a new report published by Open The Books has found. * For the federal government, fiscal 2020 began in October 2019 and fiscal 2024 ended in September 2024, covering almost the entirety of the Biden administration." -- The federal payroll got inflated by 24% in 4 years under Biden... It's not about pay increase... it's about increasing federal employee numbers as well by expanding social programs and creating new programs and adding many more political appointees.. both of which increase the inflation rate taxpayers have had to live with…

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Online headline: "Rogan and Carolla shred Newsom, say he should blame Palisades fire on bad management, not climate change" --Gimmee a break! A politician...especially a DemoKrat one... and extra- especially, one from California.... has a chance to choose to tell CNN that it was CLIMATE CHANGE (or Donald Trump) rather than a bad decision/management issue on his/her part is never gonna admit he/she's the blame!

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Online headline: "The new property tax revolt: No taxation without consent" -- Hey, Columbus, GA... the current odds-on-favorite for our next Mayor "I-see-a-nothing" Hugley has teamed up former Mayor Queen TT Tom-LYING-son and current Mayor Skippy the POO, so we can expect another assault on our "Property Tax Freeze" if he does win.

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WRBL-TV3 headline: "Sunday Conversation: Goodwill President, CEO Jack Warden on the nonprofit’s mission" -- Hmmmm.... Is there any other charitable organization that owns as much commercial real estate than Goodwill Industries?

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Online headline: "The Ogallala Crisis: What Happens When America’s Largest Water Source Runs Dry? --  "FAKE VIEWS"! Is Algore behind this? What an alarmist! Claiming the Ogallala Aquifer is being drained but has not enough replacement source.. This aquifer  could only become so big BECAUSE it has a huge resource system.

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Wanes Hales, publisher of the Eco Courier Latino in Columbus, GA  wrote this in his today's edition: "White folks understand something we often ignore: money is power. Money is leverage. Money is a vote with decimals. * They will boycott, redirect, unify, and strategize around their interests. They invest in their own businesses. They hire their own people. They circulate their money within their own community. * We, on the other hand, give our fruit to the oppressor. We run from the Black businesses struggling to survive but flock to the corporations that wouldn’t hire our children to sweep the floor. We tear down the very leaders who stand up for us — because they’re not perfect — while voting for people who don’t even pretend to care." --  Hmmm... what he doesn't say is that he's basically describing the White DemoKrat  leadership he advocates for! ...Yet Wane Hales is so committed to skin color segregation and division , that he divides the Black population according to whether he thinks some successful in industry Blacks aren't BLACK ENOUGH because they they do not segregate ..and are forward looking.

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Online headline/story: “Uneven Spotlight? Harris County Arrest of Assistant Principal Raises Questions About Media Double Standard.  Is there a double standard in how the arrests of Black and white public officials are covered in Muscogee County — and does that reflect a broader pattern in American crime reporting?” --  Good grief! All of a sudden Wane Hailes is concerned about a school  issue involving skin color, when everything he presents in his stories is completely about skin color.

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Online headline: "Georgia's new SNAP work rules could leave thousands without food assistance" -- A sign published with this article read, "SNAP FEEDS FAMILIES".  ... "SNAP FEEDS FAMILIES"? True ..but "SNAP" also takes food off the tables of taxpayers' families. It's the same principle as "Affordable Housing" programs... hard working taxpayers supplement other people's incomes by paying higher taxes than they ought to pay. Let the churches handle this charitable facet…

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Online headline/story: "Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over * Foundations have long served as the primary structure for billionaire giving. But recent moves by U.S. lawmakers could discourage that approach. A budget reconciliation package approved in May included a new 10% tax on foundations holding more than $5 billion in assets.” --  What! "A budget reconciliation approved in May included a new 10% tax on foundations holding more than $5 Billion in assets.".. I betcha all the DemoKrats vote "FOR" on this issue ...they never see a tax they don't like... I just want to know how the issue EVEN MADE it to the Floor of the House for a vote, and then wasn't removed by the Senate....

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Online headline: '20-Years-Old Georgia Man Arrested After Allegedly Trying to Smuggle Stolen Gun Into Jail by Hiding It in His Body" --  Hmmm...hidden between his buttocks? Do you wonder where the barrel was stuck?  I'll give you 1 guess.....

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Online headline: "Johns Hopkins University Will Be Tuition-Free For Families Of Undergraduate Students Making Up To $200K" -- Hmmm... this may not get the results "intended"... You know what more doctors does to health and insurance costs?... I guess this means there will be fewer patients per doctor…and it  will raise the cost of healthcare... Huh... you say.... well, do you think MORE doctors coming into play will affect the normal effect of "supply & demand"? Not me... I don't see new or older doctors working for less  just because there will be more competition for job slots.....think about it...

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Washington Examiner Poll: "Republicans more likely than Democrats to have close friends in other party" --  Hmmm ...I can see where moderate DemoKrats are more likely to have more Republican friends than liberal DemoKrats are likely to have any Republican friends, .. in fact, I can also see where moderate DemoKrats are more likely to have more Republican friends THAN they have friends on the liberal side of the DemoKrat Party as well.

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Online headline: "Jane Fonda recognized for commitment in Georgia" -- "commitment"? Hanoi Jane should have been committed a long time ago.... as a traitor!

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WTVM-TV9 online headline: "68-year-old Columbus GA woman mauled to death by dogs, coroner’s office reports" --  7 dogs… Hmmm..sad...no, tragic story .. but it's against local laws to have that many dogs at a home without having a kennel license.

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Online headline: "Trump Unveils $200 Billion Trade Deal With Switzerland And Liechtenstein To Cull $38.5 Billion US Goods Deficit By 2028 " -- Wow! Even Switzerland wants to change it's neutrality stance and get in on Trump's plans to prosper the world on America's coattails! 

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Online headline: "Chicagoans Fume at Obama's 'Palace' on Historic Land" -- There have been a lotta diferrent names given to Obama's Presidential Library building, but the one I like the most is "Porta-Potty".

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Online headline: "15-Year-Old Girl Faces Felony Charges After Violently Attacking Police Cruiser With a Shovel" --  That 15 year old is not a victim of the police, she's a victim of her home life!

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From the “If you thought SNOPES was a liberal tool, wait’ll you read this!” department – Online headline/story: “Wikipedia donations go toward paying liberal activists to rewrite articles * When clicking on a Wikipedia page, users are often met with fundraising pleas that strongly imply the site is in dire need of funds to ensure its wealth of knowledge remains available to all. A closer look at the financials behind the website, however, reveals that the foundation running Wikipedia has enough surplus cash to bankroll groups responsible for inserting left-of-center viewpoints into its articles. * The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization responsible for administering Wikipedia, paid out more than $1 million in grants to groups that host mass-editing events aimed at introducing the perspectives of feminists and racial justice activists into the website's articles, according to tax forms filed in April covering activities between July 2023 and June 2024.” -- I've always seen "facts" I considered “questionable in a lot of Wikipedia "articles", but I did not realize Wikipedia knew about and actually paid for them. Now.. there is a new APP source available on line.. “GROK”… and it’s part of Elon Musk’s “X” empire so it is going to be better balanced.

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Local question: Why is Pepsi the exclusive .. even obtrusive...  soft drink vendor at Columbus GA's Civic Center... Coca Cola was started here and responsible for funding many of  the  charitable organizations here ..Dr. Pemberton... the formulator of Coca Cola is even buried here. Our Council needs to look  closely at how the contracts with Pepsi evolved... and even RC Cola/Nehi was started here... so how did our past City Manager put Pepsi in?

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It’s been illuminating at how Letitia James and Eric Smalwell and Adam Schi** have been exposed on “mortgage fraud” but it’s a lot closer to home when you realize Congressman Sandford Bishop, D-GA2, and his wife have homes in both Columbus GA and Albany GA that have “Homestead Exemptions”  which lessens their property taxes.. the Homestead Exemption status is suppose to be only for their one PRIMARY Georgia house… and we have no clue about any of his Washington arrangements..

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WTVM-TV9 headline: "New pet wellness club opens in Columbus GA’s Midtown district" --  "A spa with Mud baths... for dogs"?....What has happened to this generation!  

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Online headline: "Comedian Samantha Bee Tells Stacey Abrams to Attack MAGA: Civility Is ‘Worthless" --  Hmmm ... so Samantha Bee lost "her TV comedy show" because she could not get a desirable audience of viewers with "common sense", so Stacey Abrams has brought her on her "podcast" to spew her garbage to an audience with less  "common sense" ... neither of which are  required nor desired. 

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Online headline: "City Councilor Bruce Huff’s Efforts Spark Growth in District 3" -- Hmmm... Government initiated housing in NOT "affordable housing" ...in fact, it's DISCRIMINATORY! Hard working families who have taken responsibility to provide for themselves and their own future are forced to pay more in taxes to make up the difference that allows politicians to give those tax dollars to government contractors to make up the difference for the discount given to low income renters to live in those units.

Hmmm… Columbus GA welcomes Zack Lee to the Columbus GA Council Post 3 race… maybe, just in time..