Why not let students print their own report cards?  It looks like that’s what the county is doing.
The Georgia Accrediting Commission announced that it will accredit Clayton’s 64 schools. The accreditation is retroactive to July 1, 2008 and is valid for five years, said Carvin Brown, GAC’s executive director.
What the heck is the “Georgia Accrediting Commission”?  I [...]

In some comments Bill, Grift and I have been arguing about the elections division. One arcane piece of argument has been about the Elections Division providing timely and easy access to absentee ballot request information. My contention is that in 2006, the Secretary of State made this data easily available online. Bill [...]

Received last night into the Rogue109 Command Center, comes this story from the Tifton Gazette. (Be sure to also read this part of the story, as well).
For the first time in years, Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) money is not increasing in Tifton; indeed, the opposite is happening. In addition, revenue known as pro-rata, which [...]

Any Job.  Really, it doesn’t matter which one.  Marta, Grady, heck, put me in charge of sanitation.  I don’t care.  Don’t worry about my qualifications, because the person I’m replacing apparently didn’t have any either.  Just make sure I get the severence package that Pam Stephenson got from Grady, or Richard J. McCrillis got from [...]

The AJC has this story today about Roy Barnes filing another lawsuit to stop the City of Dunwoody.   DeKalb Commissioners have voted 5-2 to stop the additional lawsuit for a few weeks.  One of the sticking points is that, although Barnes was hired in April 2007, he has yet to bill Dekalb county for his legal [...]

From the AJC:
Franklin vowed Tuesday to lobby Congress and federal officials to mandate that any public facility receiving federal money be declared a “gun-free zone.” That would affect airports nationwide.
Lets put guns on the national agenda this election year.

…because we can’t figure out who is dumber, our kids or our elected officials.
From: InsiderAdvantage:
State School Superintendent Kathy Cox plans to press local boards to postpone the start of the school year until late August.
The stance would reverse a previous hands-off approach to start dates and offer the possibility of better-looking test results in return.
Schools [...]

With all due respect to Rep. Paul Broun, this is simply ridiculous. From a message I got this morning:
Subject: Family Fragments :: Fighting Pornography, Saving the Family: Are you subsidizing pornography?
Rep. Broun (GA-10) has submitted HR 5821 which would remove pornography from PX and BX shops on military bases. Most products at these shops are [...]

Good move. I agree with Erick BTW. The GOP should get rid of these automatic tax increases.
With gas prices continuing to spike, Gov. Sonny Perdue moved Monday to suspend a gas tax increase that was supposed to go into effect July 1.
Perdue’s decision will save most motorists 2.9 cents per gallon. The governor [...]

No not Lithonia, not Clayton County, but Augusta:
Augusta, GA — Watchdog Woody Merry came came to bark at Augusta Coliseum Authority board members about not meeting, but Merry’s confrontation with member William Fennoy brought out a Richmond County Deputy, to take statements as Merry took a punch to the right side of his face.
William Fennoy, [...]

The Idiot of the Day award goes to Judy Manning:
State Representative Judy Manning said she was shocked to receive death threats over the bill to ban the candy. “Some people think their rights are their rights,” she said.
While I prefer to refrain from threatening the lives of state legislators (I save my death threats for [...]

Online petition giving new hope to changing the law:
With more than 30,000 Georgians signing a petition to end the state’s prohibition on Sunday sales and with the House and Senate showing a willingness to consider other alcohol legislation, backers of the Sunday bill say they at least have a shot this year.
It is something they [...]

Senator Tommie Williams, took to the well of the Senate today to speak on behalf of new legislation his is introducing:

There will be created the Georgia Authority of Gastronomic Suppliers (GAGS) composed of 17 current restaurant owners — ten members representing restaurant chains, five members will be sole proprietors and two members will represent specialty [...]