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House District 123 Weekly Review: Week 2

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
By Rob Leverett   In the Georgia General Assembly, passing a balanced budget is our one constitutional obligation, and each year, what we call “budget week” serves as the opportunity to lay the groundwork for our state’s financial planning. In Week Two of our legislative session, Gov.

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Understanding Hospital Revenue

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
By Tyler Taylor   At first glance, it might seem like hospitals, including Elbert Memorial Hospital (EMH), bring in significant revenue.

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House District 123 Weekly Review

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
By Rob Leverett   As your state representative for Georgia’s 123rd District, I am honored to share updates as the 2025 legislative session gets underway.

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Some facts of life for a new great-grandson

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
By Dick Yarborough   Dear Samuel Knox Wansley:   Who are you and who am I? The answer is that you are the youngest member of the family still awaiting your first birthday and I am your great-grandfather who doesn’t have that many birthdays ahead of him.

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It's the little things, Bowman

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
By Julie Weeks   I'd like to submit some advice to our Bowman City Council—with all due love and respect—because it's getting painful to watch. Admittedly, I don't know all the laws governing what you can and can't do; I'm learning those still.

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A grandpa's mission: Be a memory-maker

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
By Dink NeSmith   If you asked me to count my one-on-one memories of both grandfathers, I wouldn’t need all my fingers. Starting with the firstborn, I was determined to change that with our eight grandchildren.

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The New Orleans Blues

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
By Tom Poland   New Orleans-bound, Georgia Dawgs Andy and I left Columbia, South Carolina, Dec. 31 at 7:30 a.m. Headed to the Sugar Bowl, our rooms waited at a Marriott in NOLA, that lady-like acronym for a city with its share of fame, and some will say filth.  I’d visited NOLA before.
In 2012 photographer and friend Wayne Morgan wanted to produce a children’s book to encourage better stewardship of Georgia’s rivers, especially the Little Satilla near his home in Brantley County. I volunteered to write the story in the voice of his grandson Kase. Knowing that Jimmy Carter, as a boy, loved fishing in the Little Satilla with his father, I asked the 39th president to endorse our book. Here is what’s on the back cover of "Kase for the Environment: "

In 2012 photographer and friend Wayne Morgan wanted to produce a children’s book to encourage better stewardship of Georgia’s rivers, especially the Little Satilla near his home in Brantley County. I volunteered to write the story in the voice of his grandson Kase. Knowing that Jimmy Carter, as a boy, loved fishing in the Little Satilla with his father, I asked the 39th president to endorse our book. Here is what’s on the back cover of "Kase for the Environment: "

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Jimmy Carter leaves 100-year legacy of making world better

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
By Dink NeSmith   In 2017 three black SUVs streaked by our older son’s truck on South Georgia’s Corridor Z. His wife, Heather, turned and said, “Alan, there goes President and Mrs. Carter. I bet they are headed to the island.