News started coming out on Monday that this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo will likely be postponed to a later date. That would mark the first postponement of the event, though three others have been cancelled during World Wars I and II. Georgia of course has close ties to the games with Atlanta having hosted in 1996, and in 2016 there were 14 athletes from the Peach State who competed. So we can empathize with Tokyo as its leaders deal with the ramifications of pushing back such an event – its future is DRIFTING…
Atlanta paid deadbeat $910,00 for virtually no work
It’s outrageous that Atlanta taxpayers paid Foris Webb $910,000 for two years even though he produced little record any “work.” After reviewing invoices and emails, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he was supposed to be overseeing a petition calling for a vote on the Atlanta police/fire training center. Yet by the time the “consulting contract” was discovered and payments were being made, the center had opened, the referendum never occurred and petition signatures were forgotten. Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council are blaming each other, but who issued this no-work contract to Webb? No one knows—for now. This incredible taxpayer rip off has Atlanta SINKING…
