Politics
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.
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Macon budget talks start with flap over sales tax
Macon City Council members began a three-week slog through Mayor Robert Reichert’s proposed budget Wednesday, with a skirmish breaking out almost immediately over whether estimates of sales tax revenue are low enough.
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Warner Robins rethinking bids for transit service
WARNER ROBINS -- Although the Macon Transit Authority wants to provide public transportation in Warner Robins, the authority won’t bid on the service.
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Reichert proposes balanced budget for Macon
Mayor Robert Reichert presented a $71.2 million general fund balanced budget, which includes no change in tax rates, during a special meeting of Macon City Council on Tuesday.
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Judge issues new Forest Hill Road injunction, delaying project again
Forest Hill Road activist Lindsay “Doc” Holliday has secured another injunction against construction to widen the road.
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Perry holds first department presentations for fiscal 2014 budget
PERRY -- The fire department may not be promised more firefighters to staff its upcoming new station, but it will be able to function, Fire Chief Joel Gray said.
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