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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 4:28pm
There's not a lot of chatter surrounding it, but less than 500 votes separate Darryl Hicks and Terry Coleman in the Democratic primary for Labor Commissioner. With all precincts reporting, and the provisionals being reviewed, Hicks leads 166,456 to 165,973 (50.1 percent to 49.9 percent).
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 3:44pm
The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia will kick off its Second Thursday Scholarship Series beginning Sept. 9 with the UGA Symphony performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, as well as Mahler's Symphony No. 4.
September 9 – The UGA Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mark Cedel will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3, featuring Martha Thomas, piano, and Mahler’s Symphony no. 4, featuring Stephanie Tingler, soprano.
Established in 1980, the series offers showcase performances by UGA students and faculty the second Thursday of each month throughout the academic year. Proceeds from individual ticket sales and season subscriptions allow for year-long academic scholarships and...
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 3:05pm
I have to put forward one little quibble with Aaron Gould Sheinin, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, regarding the sad, little circus that is Andrew Breitbart's manipulation of the media and borderline defamatory attack on Shirley Sherrod.
On Twitter, in response to a note from Jason Pye - who called for Breitbart to face reprecussions for what he had done - Sheinin said that Breitbart wouldn't apologize ...
but he won't. That's not how the system works. Partisan press never has to apologize.
Now, to be clear, I don't disagree with Sheinin on the central point of this (likewise, Sheinin is an excellent reporter and a heck of a nice guy). Breitbart won't apologize...
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 1:03pm
Clay Shirky tells us how cognitive surplus will change the world.
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Martin MathenyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 12:14pm
Can bloggers go on strike? Well, apparently, yes. It seems that a handful of writers for scienceblogs.com are going "pencils down" as it were, thanks to some suspect decisions by their bosses. Scienceblogs.com, by the way is a very heavily-trafficked site, so this might have some legs.
The central issue appears to be a corporate decision to allow PepsiCo to sponsor a blog about nutrition and food science.
What's more interesting to me is that this could be a very big deal. Scienceblogs.com has high traffic, as I noted...
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:27am
Some 'day after' observations ...
- Throughout the campaign, it had been pointed out to me by various supporters of Eric Johnson that Jeff Chapman's decision to run for governor was not fueled by any reasonable expectation of winning, but rather keeping Johnson from earning a spot in the runoff. A day later, there is some data to suggest that hypothesis was correct. Johnson finished in third place in the Republican primary, 19,174 votes behind second-place Nathan Deal. Chapman, who also hails from coastal Georgia, picked up 20,561 votes and won four counties in the southeast corner of the state (including a 4,251 to 1,200 win over Johnson in Glynn County). That said ... a lot of those vote totals were small, and Chapman was in...
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Janet GeddisPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 10:14am
Five of them sat in a row of low-slung chairs along the water’s edge, a book in each person’s lap. Still more were sprinkled a little farther back in the dry sand, books in hand or peeking out of beach bags. A few days ago here at the beach in Sea Isle City, NJ, I looked around at my extended family and marveled at the sheer number of books within eyesight. Surely no other beach gathering played host to so many books or so many long, lanky legs.
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 9:39am
As you see in this interview, I asked Russell Edwards last night during our liveblog about the grant awarded to the University of Georgia by...
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 8:52am
Political Insider had this late last night, but Rep. Jim Marshall welcomed Austin Scott to the general election campaign. His spokesperson, Doug Moore, passed this on to Jim Galloway ...
Austin Scott’s been in the legislature his whole adult life, He’s a career politician looking for his next job. Ran for governor, found no takers. Ran for Lieutenant Governor, got run off, and was told to run for Congress.
He’s voted against taxing illegal immigrants, but he’s voted for, even proposed, multiple new tax increases on every Georgian.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but with...
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Johnathan McGintyPosted on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 7:00am
- Thanks to all who followed our liveblog, and to the folks who helped make it possible. The archive of last night is here.
- Blake wraps up the local races for the Georgia General Assembly, and I'm still just flat-out surprised that Hank Huckaby was able to avoid a runoff in H.D. 113. Don't mistake me, I think it's a very positive development for the region as a whole and Athens-Clarke County in particular. Huckaby's expertise in budget planning, his deep connections to Athens-Clarke County as a whole and his ability to work across the aisle will be invaluable for the community.
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