Friday, February 15, 2013
Several state senators are pushing a resolution that seeks the elimination of Georgia’s income tax. Tell us how you would vote on such a proposal.
- GOVERNMENT
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Friday, February 15
The Georgia income tax could one day become a thing of the past. Several state senators have signed on to sponsor Senate Resolution 8, a proposal that would create a constitutional amendment to phase out the state’s income tax. If the resolution is approved by the General Assembly and signed by the governor, Georgia voters would see this question on a future ballot: “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to limit the authority of the General Assembly to impose an income tax and to phase out existing income taxes?” A copy of the resolution is attached to this article in PDF form. If voters approve the amendment, the state would phase out the income tax completely by the year 2027. The process would be gradual, reducing the tax …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Robert Hightower, who died at 78 on Tuesday, will be remembered at Roswell Street Baptist Church.
Just two months after the Cobb County Police renamed its headquarters after Robert E. Hightower, he died after suffering a fall. Hightower completed a 26-year tenure with Cobb, serving as Chief of Police as well as the first Director of Public Safety, overseeing police, fire, 911 and corrections. Hightower led the police department through critical periods of growth, creating many specialized units within the department that are still in service today. He also created the Department of Public Safety Training Academy, offering initial and advanced training. After his retirement from Cobb, Hightower continued to serve residents as director of the Georgia State Patrol and as Georgia's first Director of Homeland Security. Hightower begn his …
Thursday, August 9, 2012
A graphic from the Atlanta Regional Commission shows that the further precincts were from the city, the less residents backed the transportation tax.
The transportation tax that would have raised sales taxes 1 percent over 10 years to fund $8.5 billion worth of transportation projects failed in the July 31 primaries in all 10 metro Atlanta counties. The final tally was 248,319 (37%) against, and 415,526 (63%) for. The closer voters were to the city of Atlanta, the more they favored the tax, according to the above map provided by the Atlanta Regional Commission. In some counties, precincts near interstates appear to have more strongly supported the tax, commonly referred to as TSPLOST. In Cherokee County, no precinct climbed above 28 percent for, the map shows. The Atlanta District was one of nine Georgia regions to reject the tax; in the other three—the Central Savannah River District, …
Monday, January 30, 2012
Jay Ingram, who died Friday after being hit by a car, was a fixture at the North Atlanta Soccer Association.
- SPORTS
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Two visitations will be held Monday for Jay Ingram, a longtime coach with the East Cobb-based North Atlanta Soccer Association. Ingram died on Friday after being struck by a car while jogging near his Kennesaw home. The visitations will take place from 2-4 p.m. and from 6-9 p.m. at the Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home, 2950 North Cobb Parkway, Kennesaw. Ingram's funeral is 2 p.m. Tuesday at Living Hope Lutheran Church, 3450 Stilesboro Road, Kennesaw. The service will be outside due to an expected heavy turnout. Ingram, who was 32, most recently coached a NASA Under-12 girls Academy team at the organization's Metro Park facilities on Paper Mill Road. According to his NASA bio page, Ingram had been a coach with the organization since …
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The East Cobb orthopaedic surgeon who founded the high school's sports medicine program will be remembered Thursday at Raider Valley.
- SCHOOLS
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Walton High School is holding a memorial service Thursday night for orthopaedic surgeon Hugh C. McLeod III. McLeod, 61, died of leukemia Friday in Houston, according to an obituary published by the Staunton, VA, News Leader. The Mississippi native and University of Mississippi graduate was the founder of East Cobb’s Atlanta Orthopaedic Specialists and established the sports medicine program at Walton High. The high school’s Hugh C. McLeod Wellness Complex and Sports Medicine Center was named in his honor in 2001. The memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday inside Raider Valley. His family has asked for memorial contributions to be made to the wellness complex, the Georgia chapter of the Arthritis Foundation or the Lymphoma & …
Friday, March 11, 2011
Josh Wittes, 16, a Temple Kol Emeth congregant, died Thursday.
- OBITUARIES
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Lassiter High School sophomore Josh Wittes, 16, died early Thursday morning, surrounded by family and friends, after several days in a coma. A native of Marietta, the Northeast Cobb resident is survived by his parents, Rob and Kelly Wittes; brother Zack; his twin, David; and his grandparents, Grace Garrison and Hermine and Jerry Wittes. Other survivors include aunts, uncles and cousins Brian Wittes, Margaret Pawlik, Kevin Pawlik, Yvonne and Alan Jaslove, Cara and Matthew Jaslove, Dustin and Ximena Valdez, and Ryker Valdez, as well as family friends and godparents Margaret and Josh Berry, Claude Nafziger, and Lordes and Fred Muller. Josh attended Mountain View Elementary School and Simpson Middle School before Lassiter. He played many …
Brian
12:52 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
The other major thing to mention is that our unemployment problem is mainly due to people being trained in the wrong areas. We have to use E-splost to solve that problem, since the state is so underfunded as it is (and mismanaging the schools so much) that they can't afford important investments like that. The unemployment problem is due to lack fo investments, not taxes. more ›