Weekly Editorial - Topics from March, 2011
Troubled over commission’s decision
For the past week The News-Banner has been in a battle to retrieve a document from the Appling County Board of Commissioners or the Appling County Recreation Authority, which is reportedly some type of settlement agreement for Appling County Recreation Director Michael Coleman in return for his resignation. County attorney Bob Highsmith has cited the attorney/client provision in the Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. 50-18-2(e)), in that the settlement agreement is still in negotiations as the reasoning that the request is not being honored at this time.
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Enforce Sunshine Law
(Editor’s note: The following is an editorial written by the staff of the Savannah Morning News and published on March 14.)
PARENTS MAY stress the concept of personal safety to their children, but for some kids, the idea of “don’t touch the hot stove” never really comes home until they singe their fingertips.
It’s a succinct, powerful lesson: Break the rule, get burned. [Full Story »]
PARENTS MAY stress the concept of personal safety to their children, but for some kids, the idea of “don’t touch the hot stove” never really comes home until they singe their fingertips.
It’s a succinct, powerful lesson: Break the rule, get burned. [Full Story »]
Key issues will be decided next Tuesday
For weeks there has been tremendous discussion over several issues that voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, March 15, and decide. The first is the countywide Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) issue. The second is a decision on whether or not to close Fourth District Elementary School.
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A kind and gentle spirit
The headline above describes a man that is indeed going to be missed. Mr. Lorace Dyal was truly a kind and gentle man. He could also be described as a family man. Lorace was a devout husband, loving father and grandfather.
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Latest scuttlebutt
I heard last week that this newspaper, and in particular this editor, were wrongly accused around some of the local morning coffee tables. It was noted that the newspaper was unfairly playing up one side of the Fourth District Elementary School closure issue over the other. Let me assure the readers of this newspaper that our stance has been neutral on the issue and will remain neutral.
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