Monday, December 31, 2012
Bartow County in 2013 gets a new sole commissioner, school board member, district attorney and tax commissioner.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Bartow County's newly-elected and re-elected officials were sworn in the last day of 2012 during a courthouse ceremony. Set to take office in January, County Commissioner Steve Taylor, Tax Commissioner Steve Stewart, District Attorney Rosemary Greene, Clerk of Court Melba Scoggins, and Bartow Schools board members Anna Sullivan and Fred Kittle are among officials who took their oaths of office. Others include incumbents Sheriff Clark Millsap, Chief Magistrate Judge Tom Moseley and Probate Court Judge Mitchell Scoggins. Kittle, who will represent District 4, says he has notified the Bartow County Republican Party and the 11th District Georgia Republican Party Executive Committees he has resigned as an officer of the party. "I can tell you …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Two Bartow residents are asking the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to investigate Bartow County school board members and Superintendent John Harper for alleged policy and standards violations.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Updated Dec. 10 AdvancED Vice President of Communications Jennifer Oliver confirmed her organization received the second complaint. "The complaint has been forwarded to our Accreditation Team for review," she said. "They will assess it as to whether there is a violation of Accreditation Standards or policies." Original Report Discontent with the Bartow County school board continues, as two local residents have filed a second Southern Association of Colleges and Schools complaint this year. "We were told by the complaint and we have previously responded in length to the concerns outlined in the complaint," Superintendent John Harper told Cartersville Patch when asked if he or the board had a response. The first complaint of 2012 was filed …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The move, which is gathering steam, is being done in the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Residents of Georgia and more than a dozen other states have filed petitions to secede from the United States, according to media reports. Residents of Alabama, New York, Michigan, Texas and other states have filed the petitions under the "We The People" program, featured on the White House website, according to the Huffington Post. The Georgia petition, which already has more than 22,000 signatures, reads in part: "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..." The petitions come in the wake of President Obama winning a second …
Friday, November 9, 2012
Former Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce chairman Fred Kittle beat out incumbent Wanda Cagle Gray for the District 4 seat on the Bartow school board.
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Incoming Bartow County school board District 4 representative Fred Kittle sat down with Cartersville Patch on election night. The former Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce board president and active Republican beat out Independent incumbent Wanda Cagle Gray with an unofficial 56.68 percent of the votes. Kittle, who has a background in sales and business, was honored by State Sen. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, with Senate Resolution 1134 in a March meeting of the Bartow County Republican Party for his volunteer service and longtime employment, The Daily Tribune News reported. Now, he looks to help the county school system tackle continuing budget shortfalls through efficiency and with the help of knowledgeable community members…
Thursday, November 8, 2012
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Months of campaigning, complaining and one-upping have lead us to this week during which we choose a President to carry us through the next four years. But, some have questioned the ability of either side to clean up what's been deemed "a mess." What do you think? Are the issues more likely to be resolved by one party or the other? Will the American people fair better over the next four years because of this election?
Voters in a few states sent both issues skating to the left Tuesday, but was the landmark election a fluke or a sign of federal legislation to come?
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
The U.S. took a big hop to the left in Tuesday’s elections. Voters in three states—Maine, Maryland and Washington—approved same-sex marriage, joining the lot that already includes Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Meanwhile, though it remains illegal in Minnesota, voters there rejected a constitutional amendment to ban it. Washington and Colorado threw another left-leaning punch by being the first two states to legalize small amounts of marijuana for recreational use for those 21 and older. It is unclear how these measures will be handled at the federal level, where it remains illegal. President Obama, who grabbed a sweeping Electoral College victory Tuesday to push him into a …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
President Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, according to projections.
President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, according to network projections. NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you." The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney’s business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama’s handling of the economy. The race tightened during the final months of the…
Voters in Georgia on Tuesday cast their ballot for Mitt Romney, giving him the state's 16 Electoral votes, according to early results.
In a move that fell in line with expectations, Mitt Romney was projected to win Georgia’s 16 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Barack Obama. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Republican candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Georgia and spent more time visiting the Peach State to raise money. The state has been a Republican stronghold in recent presidential elections. The economy was a key issue for many voters in Georgia state, which has had a higher than average unemployment rate. Turnout was strong in Georgia and early voting was almost as popular this year as four years ago. …
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Republicans Fred Kittle, incoming District 4 school board rep, Chief Magistrate Judge Tom Moseley and State Rep. Paul Battles, R-Cartersville, edged out Independent and Democratic opposition.
Updated 12 a.m. The unofficial vote count is complete. Provisional ballots yet to be counted total 116. Updated 8 p.m. School board candidate Fred Kittle is cautiously optimistic he will win the District 4 seat in Bartow, based on early and unofficial results, according to State Sen. Barry Loudermilk, who is at the Bartow GOP's watch party in Cartersville. Loudermilk said an early, unofficial count from the Euharlee precinct indicates Kittle got 614 votes and incumbent Independent Wanda Cagle Gray, 499 votes. Updated 5:40 p.m. Elections Supervisor Joseph Kirk had a one-word answer when asked about Bartow County's voter turnout so far: BIG. He indicated turnout at the polls could be much higher than the 50 percent he had predicted. "We've …
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3:46 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The appropriate venue for adjudicating ORA violations and Open Meetings issue is the Superior Ct of Bartow Co. Not only will they rule (which is appealable if you disagree), but will fine the violators and assess attorney's fees for your trouble. One must "step" up and be known for that to happen though more ›