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Email a question to Doug or Regina Sincerely,  Dan Matthews Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:00:50 -0400 Subject: JULY 2nd CANDIDATE FORUM From: angelameltzer.cpa@gmail.com To: angelameltzer.cpa@gmail.com Please join the Federation of Neighborhoods for our Candidate Forum for the candidates in contested Georgia House primaries. Doug McKillip and Regina Quick (Republican candidates for Georgia House District 117), Keith Heard and Spencer Frye (Democratic candidates for Georgia House District 118), and Carter Kessler and Chris Perlera (Republican candidates for Georgia House District 118) have been invited. Candidates will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and field moderated questions. **Questions for consideration by the moderator can be submitted to : contact@accneighborhoods.org .   The program will begin at 7:30 pm on July 2nd at the Old Fire Hall at 489 Prince Ave.  All Federation of Neighborhoods...

Frye out-fundraises Heard in statehouse primary | Online Athens

Athens district changes head for swift passage | Online Athens

I am no paragon of virture or saint when it comes to crossing the line from journalist to activist to blogger and back and forth. I have angered many a source and even a few friends, loved ones and roommates over the years when presented a potential story and deciding whether or not to run some confidential information given to me on the daily routine I may have had at that particular time and place. So keep in mind the following is not meant as a criticism of the people involved but more a conversation starter about what I see and how it may or may not be ethically flawed at the very least. Blake Giles of the Oconee Enterprise  newspaper is an accomplished journalist and editor with whom I have crossed paths for more than a few decades. I can recall having a rotisserie baseball fantasy draft run by him in the earliest days of the new Athens Banner-Herald building. I have seen him wear the black and white striped shirt at Georgia basketball games in some sort of officiating duty...

Resent-From: ccdcnm1@clarkedemocrats.com From: "Karen Solheim" < ksolheim@oconee.k12.ga.us > Date: April 22, 2010 7:46:11 AM EDT To: < ccdcnm1@clarkedemocrats.com > Subject: CCDC   FW: AA Dems Breakfast - 1 May Subject: AA Dems Breakfast - 1 May WE WILL BE GETTING ALL THE NEWS AS SOON AS THE SESSION IS FINISHED. THE KEITH AND DOUG SHOW (OUR VERY OWN DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GEORGIA HOUSE) WILL BRIEF US ON THE FINAL RESULTS FROM THIS SESSION OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT! ATHENS AREA DEMOCRATS BREAKFAST SATURDAY, May 1  AT 9:00AM TRUMPS 2026 S. MILLEDGE AVENUE  * ATHENS, GA TOPIC: WHAT   REALLY   HAPPENED IN THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE IN THE SESSION JUST FINISHED SPEAKERS: KEITH HEARD AND DOUG MCKILLIP DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE Reservations must be made by: Monday, April 26.  Cost: $14. Pay at the door cash or check made out to CCDC Reservations are guaranteed. We...

Just wanted to show some of the photos from a trip I made a year back. Admittedly a few at the end having nothing to do with this trip to the Gold Dome and General Assembly.