Politics
Macon committee agrees to pave 58 streets
Fifty-eight asphalt streets in Macon will be patched or resurfaced at a cost of nearly $1.5 million, the City Council’s Appropriations Committee decided Monday.
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Bibb commissioners start cutting into projected $19 million deficit
Facing a mountainous projected deficit of about $19 million, Bibb County commissioners Monday started the long climb to reach a balanced fiscal 2014 budget with the first day of budget hearings.
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No tax increases for Warner Robins
WARNER ROBINS -- The city has a balanced budget with no tax increases for the upcoming fiscal year, Mayor Chuck Shaheen said Monday during a council meeting.
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Work on Commercial Circle will improve drainage, change aesthetics
WARNER ROBINS -- Tony Robbins, a Commercial Circle property owner, can’t stand the rain. And his buildings don’t weather the storm.
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Macon Downtown Airport to get studies, updates
A couple of changes are coming to the Macon Downtown Airport, the smaller of two airports the city owns.
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Political Notebook: Missing board members; high-tech hatred; shelter news
Three members of the Redevelopment Agency board in Warner Robins aren’t really members anymore.
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Macon pension costs seen rising as budget tackled
Digging into actual city departmental budgets instead of outside agencies, the Macon City Council’s Appropriations Committee quickly ran into some higher costs for the coming fiscal year.
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Work on Commercial Circle will improve drainage, change aesthetics
WARNER ROBINS -- Tony Robbins, a Commercial Circle property owner, can’t stand the rain. And his buildings don’t withstand it.
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Two council members walk out of Macon budget hearings over gun incident
The Macon Transit Authority is seeking a $151,000 increase to last year’s $1.6 million in city funding, partly to give drivers of its route buses and paratransit service a pay raise. But that request went unheard by two members of the City Council’s Appropriations Committee, who walked...
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Bibb commissioners table consulting contract
The Bibb County Commission voted 4-1 at a Thursday called meeting to table approving a consulting contract with BB&T related to the January 2014 consolidation with Macon.
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Macon-Bibb County political debate series launches
The Democratic Party of Bibb County is hosting nonpartisan political forums for races in the new Macon-Bibb County government. A Thursday debate was planned to feature candidates in Districts 2 and 3.


