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Industrial Authority held unannounced meeting last night
The VDT has a story this morning about an Industrial Authority meeting last night, Two new industries announced by Kay Harris. That’s a bit of a surprise, since they didn’t have that date on their own...
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VLCIA pleads technical glitches on web page
Here’s something from the Industrial Authority that never happened before. The first person I saw going into the State Legislative Luncheon yesterday was Andrea Schruijer, Executive Director of the...
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Quartzite Council cited by Arizona Attorney General
We haven’t looked in on the little town of 3,000 odd people of Quartzsite, Arizona, lately. Its goings-on continue to seem eerily applicable to our own county of 100,000 odd people. On 9 December 2011,...
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Georgia takes steps towards more open government; could take more
The state of Georgia may improve open government with HB 397. While the steps it takes are welcome, the bill could go farther. Kay Harris wrote for the VDT today, Georgia AG works to boost Sunshine...
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Open Records Officer at Lowndes County Commission @ LCC 2012-09-10
Apparently the Lowndes County Commission has noticed the new provisions of the Georgia Open Records and Open Meetings laws that VLCIA’s lawyer explained to the Industrial Authority back in May, seeing...
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Video Playlist @ LCC 2012-09-10
Yesterday morning’s County Commission Work Session started on time! In addition to the open records and open meetings items, it included a report from KLVB, two rezonings, typo fixes and date changes...
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Video Playlist @ LCC 2012-09-11
After briefly discussing or at least hearing items at the previous morning's Work Session, the Lowndes County Commission voted on them at its Regular Session of Tuesday 11 September 2012. Here's the...
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Transparency in government is essential to the public trust –VDT
VDT editorial yesterday, Violating public trust, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens successfully fought for and implemented changes to the state’s Open Records law, believing that transparency in...
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Suddenly an agenda! @ LCC-Budget 2014-03-10
You can go to the rest of the budget meeting, which is tomorrow. Some time after this morning when I looked for it, today’s budget meeting magically appeared on the calendar and in Current Events on...
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Executive Session for Real Estate @ VLCIA 2014-05-27
The Industrial Authority is having a Special Called Meeting Tuesday at 4:45 PM, the agenda for which goes straight into Executive Session for no stated reason. Is that even legal, as I’ve asked before...
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VDT Open Government Symposium: in Macon?
Yay open government symposium! But why in Macon, why not in Valdosta, if it’s organized by the new VDT editor? Sure, Macon is the geographic center of the state, but it’s only about an hour from...
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LAKE in the VDT @ LCC 2014-11-21
First time ever the VDT mentioned LAKE, so far as I can recall. And we’ll see if the new VDT editor’s honeyed approach works this time with the Lowndes County Commission. Joe Adgie, VDT, 23 November...
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