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Is it really that difficult to stop crazy drivers with no headlights, blacked-out windows, fake license plates or exhaust pipes that sound like a freight train? Our commissioners and law enforcement leadership say they want to protect our families, but they do next to nothing to get these lowlifes off our roads.

Trumpsters support a convicted criminal. The stupidity of these people is why Trump is still relevant.

Why aren’t Georgia law-enforcement officials reporting crime?

The problem we face today is that the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

Biden, Warnock and Ossoff are trying their best to give away money that favors the black population. Everything they do from forgiving college loans to giving federal jobs is done to get the black vote. Why do they do that? They get 97% of the black vote anyway.

A powerful Realtor group agrees to slash commissions to settle lawsuits. Real estate agents could soon be entering a whole new market. In a historic $418 million settlement, the National Association of Realtors decided to do away with a long-standing 6% commission for agents.

Albany is losing another city manager and hasn’t had a capable manager since Roy Lane. Albany’s problem is that no qualified candidate is going to risk their reputation working for a group of city commissioners who have no business experience and are in place due to the color of their skin.

I hear the next 007 movie will star Donald Trump as “Bond. Can’t Afford Bond.” That Liberal Man

Approximately 74% of voters dislike the Biden vs Trump election, choosing not an acceptable candidate but choosing to vote against the more unacceptable other. Stupid citizen/voters. Show some initiative; throw both these old cronies out and go find an acceptable president.

Is it fair? Our government owes over $33 trillion and they rate and give me a credit score and tell others if I am credit-worthy. And they insure my saving in the banks although they have no money.

I would rather watch two hours of Plexaderm commercials than the WALB weekend news.

You got to love the Republican-dominated Georgia legislature. They are rallying to get online betting put on the November ballot, but when it comes to a meaningful benefit to Georgians like expanding Medicaid and getting federal funds, Republicans vote as usual, against people in the state.

Please don’t let Tom Berry come back as a consultant unless he is cleared by the GBI for some of the illegal contracts and personnel violations that occurred under his watch.

Wackopedia definition: Goboonbulit: A portmanteau word (blending of more than one word to create a new word) from: Governmental, boondoggle, bull–it. It conveys the absurdity of the Dougherty County homestead exemption audit’s rational and administrative process.

Squawker says no one running against Clinton Johnson is “apathetic.” When it comes to this crooked commissioner, you got the root word right: pathetic.

Author

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

Read Carlton’s stories.

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