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Moving Political Mountains

17 September 2017 By Teresa 3 Comments

Libertarian Party of Douglas County Meeting & Eating

When I moved to Georgia in the late ’80s, elections, laws and politics were pretty much the furthest things from my mind. I was a struggling single mom, and that was an all-encompassing role. It wasn’t until maybe the mid to late ’90s that I took notice of politics – Douglasville/Douglas County politics, specifically. Even […]

The Wisdom To Know The Difference

7 May 2017 By Teresa 2 Comments

Walking Away

I bet you’ve heard the Serenity Prayer – you know, the one that’s been popular for eons in self-help circles and asks God to help us accept things we can’t change, give us courage to change what we can, and enough smarts to discern which is which? Although I think it’s a bad idea to request that God […]

You, me and $267 per hour

4 October 2013 By Teresa Leave a Comment

Douglas County, Georgia School System logo

From the Douglas County Sentinel: Tea Party to protest BOE pay: School board second-highest paid in state Martinez said what the Tea Party found in talking to hundreds of people at September Saturdays was that citizens weren’t aware of the large gap in pay between the Douglas County BOE and other similar-sized school systems. Haskell […]

Congress is the least of our problems

3 October 2013 By Teresa Leave a Comment

Source: Wikipedia.org - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obama_Health_Care_Speech_to_Joint_Session_of_Congress.jpg

  Amanda Swafford, former Flowery Branch, GA city council member, has some advice for you. I think she’s dead on. If you’re not registered to vote or you’re not sure who your city, county or state reps are, please do something about it now. https://www.facebook.com/Swaff/posts/10151922546508545  

And you wonder why I want to leave

1 October 2013 By Teresa Leave a Comment

"Sporting Lawn" at Foxhall Resort

Yesterday I used my camera phone to make a ghetto-style video about issues I see with Douglas County’s involvement in a resort and conference center at Foxhall Farms. I put it out on Facebook, and it seemed to help people see that there was a problem, so that was good. I wrote a blog post […]

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