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Paulding plays host to three stellar events beginning with the June 6 "Run with the Badges 5k - GLOW RUN" set for 8 p.m. in Seven Hills. The following week Shepherd's Rest Ministries, the folks that provide Paulding's battered women's shelter for victims of domestic violence is hosting both a Street Fair and Concert with activities beginning at noon on Main Street in Dallas Saturday, June 14. Check out the flyers above. You can pause the play and look at any one of the posters by pressing and holding your mouse. When you release the mouse button the movie will continue. Click for RE

Apparently some dude came up with a plan on how to make a million with an Iphone app that uses a quad-copter to walk a dog. I don't think he'll make a penny on the application and amaze it works as good as it does. pubby

It is true, John Oliver hit a home run last night with his appeal to all of trolldom to assault the government computers at the FCC in the belief that such a challenge is the only thing that will keep the cable companies from getting control over the Internet. At issue, Oliver said, is Net Neutrality which Oliver says will be easily overcome because it is simply boring ... citing a clip of a nerd recalling section 230© as an example of the obtuse terms on which the debate is centered. Instead, he says it recast as an objection to "cable company truckery" and folks should be mad as hell. We

What TP needs to remember is that it is always better to cite a source than plagiarize a source. TP, even obscure, pithy quotes need to be cited. Don't steal someone's intellectual property even if there is no charge. I know you're not the only one to do so but anyone and everyone who does earns the distrust by doing so. To wit: I was disappointed in the book that Bobby Kennedy put out to support his run for president in 1967 - it must have been a decade or so later - when I read the exact words of his inspiring thought as published by George Barnard Shaw. The words were: "Some

Yeah, Lockheed is at Dobbins ... brain fart. pubby

spunkywoman: The argument is literally how universal is an individuals opinion. Having done market research and other types of social science research the trick is to find a situation similar to the one you posed and look. Do people run away from, not invest and hate living in any place close to a commercial airport. So that is what I did and my conclusion is that in the scheme of things, the airport traffic that folks will experience here as a result of the site going commercial is greatly overblown. You said "look anywhere there is a commercial airport and tell me the area sur

Now you're moving the goal posts stradial and you know it. the intent of the first post was to suggest that no one is 'free' to say "God Bless" in public because of fear of being considered politically incorrect. That was obviously untrue if the President, with at least a sincere voice, says it at the end of every speech he makes. And just like stradial was moving the goal posts on the God Bless statement, pcfanatic, Sidely-Austin is moving the goal posts - or at least trying to by threatening another suit over the environmental issue. I personally don't think that they're doing anyt

Whitey, I'm not a poor loser. The decision of May 20 makes this community the big loser. This is solely because folks played political games. Oh, and the only promise is economic stagnation which I don't find exciting, BTW. I think it is bordering on libel to suggest that the three politicians, their appointees and ... will gain unmeasurable profits ... in a secret meeting in the neighboring county ... You do know that 'planning retreats are allowed under the open meetings law and the ACCG in the context of the carl Vinson Institute provides facilitation for such event for

One of my favorite comedians. BTW: I feel the headline that was provided was inaccurate and the headline I provided was accurate. Rockster, I do understand how you folks would prefer the inaccurate over the accurate. pubby

Paulding County Fire Chief Mike Earwood - it has been years - but I think he was a fire captain at Lockheed plant before joining PCFD back in the late 1980s. PCFD has a pretty good record of getting its members qualified as well but you wouldn't know that and, heck, you wouldn't admit it if you did ... it doesn't fit your narrative. pubby

Absolutely I do. I've stated here many times why. I think it is incumbent upon us to do this largely because I KNOW there is not an adequate amount of industrial activity here to support the facility as it is. What we have here are people. General aviation airports support pilots and corporations. We have few of either. The only way to make this facility a benefit in the short run is to open it to use by regular people. This does it and it will bring the ancillary economic activity that we need as a by product. The second reason is that having come this far, we risk destroying

Even if they were deleted by the camera; the act of deletion tends to change the bit at the beginning of the file to denote that it can be written over. It may yet be recoverable. This is not a certainty but it is a possibility. pubby

Surepip: Wow! Six to eight planes an hour ... now that would make the airport an enormous success even if they were 15-50 passenger aircraft! And while you may not think that is good, it would certainly justify salaries and bring a few jobs. Hell, our taxicabs companies may be able to afford cabs that are newer than ten years old. The GA element of the airport is based solely on the level of economic development in the community. No one is a magician and no one can conjure from thin air the corporate types to headquarter their planes here when the corporate headquarters and home

We're not talking guilt or innocence here and unlike a criminal violation, guilt doesn't turn on motive. In fact we're dealing with factual capacity to do something; not the guilt that is attached to a intentional act. Logically, if you were trying to 'heat up a space' you would put a blanket around the space and then burn stuff under that blanket. The plain fact is greenhouse gasses (including methane which is getting out of control with fracking) are being unbanked from underground deposits of coal, oil and gas and dispersed into the atmosphere. It is not the presence of carbon dioxide,

The initial 'interruption' I know was unexpected but there is a reason and it is called precedent. We all know that there are two moments when 'citizens can speak' at commission meetings now. The first is before a specific action is taken on an agenda item. The request to speak on an agenda topic occurs at the day of the meeting just before the meeting is called to order. The second is when a citizen petitions the county to speak on a specific subject no later than the Friday before the meeting. The individual is charged with stating the subject to be addressed. The initial rema

I've been eligible for jury duty for 42 years all totaled (I've been registered to vote since coming of age) and I've been called once for a federal grand jury and once for a superior court jury in Cobb. I was excused from the federal case because I was moving from the jurisdiction. I was called and served in Cobb, even though I was a newspaper reporter. I sat on a civil medical malpractice case. That was in the early 1990s and I had only been registered to vote in Cobb like four or five years. pubby

That's easy to answer. They have industry ... Of all the money/property in Cobb, 55% of the value of that property is in commercial and industrial property. Considering the size of the population (and they live in homes valued generally higher than those in Paulding) that represents and enormous investment. They have the businesses including literally thousands that are capable of putting a general aviation to good use. So, you figure that money not coming here better than that money coming here. Though misguided, that is a very tea-party stance - tea partiers being of the opinion th

In so many, many ways, I'm so blessed by my Austin. He had a tendency to squeal in public ... literally with joy. Certainly I've had my moments convincing him that when I say no to something, I mean NO but those days are largely behind us as he approaches his 22nd birthday. It is really a joy to see him get so excited and happy when he pulls items from the shelves - he does a good part of the shopping at the grocery store subject to a yes or no we need or want that. Often I'm five, sometimes as far away as 20 - 30 feet and of course I see the reactions. If they're close by, I

So your problem is not with the planes but with airport security? You do know that the cost of operating the airport - including TSA personnel, falls on the private contractor under the terminal lease. If they pull out and run, then the airport would no doubt cease to operate as a commercial airport. If they don't, they've actually created private industry jobs. pubby

Surepip: My personal belief is that most of the folks here have this image of HJIA as the prototypical commercial airport when, as the world's largest, it is anything but typical. That said, the idea that a plane is somehow anathema or toxic because it has paying passengers just boggles my mind. To me commercial planes, because of additional regulations and their superior safety record, would be the preferred traffic. Couple that with the fact that as a non-pilot - and certainly not pony enough to have an airplane of my own - the airport is not of much use to me unless I could go the

I think an observation the month before from one of the principals regarding some folks at the Georgia Film Office - they were using that official position to direct folks away from Paulding and to some ventures in Gwinnett and other counties - presumably telling lies about the facility here and its access, whether in spite or for some under-the-table benefit - was identified. Apparently the counter-measures are addressing the issue and the promise of the facility is improving. pubby

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While the airport property and terminal building do not generate taxes, sales of goods and to a degree services do represent a stream for sales tax. Additionally, the aircraft housed at the airport - I just saw an ad for a used corporate jet that had a price tag of upwards of $5 million. That single aircraft, if stored here as private property subject to property tax would generate more taxes than 50 $100,000 homes. I know that you want to portray the airport as the worst thing imaginable but it simply is a hellava resource that people here should be proud of. The fact that there see

I've heard of sore losers but the way you guys are laying it on, you are coming across as sore winners. While I wouldn't have said that 'Delta' wrote the reply at the commission meeting, I think it is understood she borrowed heavily from the letter from McKnight on the subject of who is selected by the county to conduct the environmental assessment. Now we all know that McKnight is invoking lawyer-client privilege in his relation to who is paying for his services but is assumed - with less than 110 percent certainty I might add - that powerful big city interests are footing the bill.

Rockster: The fact that the suit filed by the anti-forces named the FAA means the FAA is a party to the 'settlement.' This suit, if you recall, was filed in the federal courts in DC and the FAA has, as part of that agreement, become obligated to fund the environmental assessment directly (as opposed to through the state DOT). This direct involvement by the FAA in this 'court sanctioned' review of the Environmental assessment put the funding and reimbursement on the proverbial fast track effectively taking the funding and review out of 'official channels' as well. This EA, by the way,