Cobb Chairman Tim Lee has pulled a fast one on voters yet again, this time by slipping a $500 million rapid bus transit project, (half of which would be paid for by local taxpayers) into a transportation planning document which would allow the project to be passed with only a committee vote. Lee had assured voters, (and most of the Cobb commissioners) that the bus project would only be passed following a public vote, a fact which clearly got lost in the shuffle between last summer and now. Not the first time that Chairman Lee has gone over voters’ heads to try and stick them with a big money bill they never voted for, and for that his ship is SINKING…
Moldova soon to be welcoming a Georgian
It is rare for a native-born Georgian to serve as an ambassador to a foreign nation, but J. Mark Burkhalter is one of that elite having been nominated by President Donald Trump and then just confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Moldova. The Alpharetta native represented north Fulton County in the General Assembly for 18 years and briefly served as speaker of the House of Representatives. A successful real estate developer, Burkhalter is a University of Georgia alum with a double major in German and Slavic Languages, and Global Studies/Political Science. As he prepares to locate in a country (a U.S. ally) bordered by Romania and Ukraine, his boat (and Georgia’s) is RISING….
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