Pumping ground water into streams and rivers -- are you kidding ? What a waste of resources. Ground water is not some vast, unlimited underground sea. Groundwater takes a long time to collect. Large scale pumping will deplete the groundwater faster than it can recharge -- once it is gone, it is gone.

So a teacher ends up with a poor evaluation when the class is full of students that actually resist the learning process. "Studying is acting white".

One loser coach is gone; now on to football and basketball.

So did they pass the final exam ? Hard to believe a mayor that proposes new taxes could pass such a course.

What we are looking at is the fact that the majority of students in ACC schools perform well below their peers in the surrounding counties. The result is the same, no matter what the metric.

Unfortunately, a marching agenda does not automatically generate any results.

Police only hit their target about 30% of the time -- this is proven in numerous studies. That is the reason they are taught to fire so many times.

Dr. Adams legacy on the UGA sports program is hiring coaches that were not able to win national championships in football, basketball, or baseball.

Georgia Demos need to take a deep breath and then look for a competitive candidate to run in the senate race. A candidate who would not want to campaign with the President is the sort of candidate that would run a competitive race in Georgia.

HBCU are a left over from the past. Public support of these institutions (sometimes in the same town as historically white colleges) is a waste of resources. Publicly-supported HBCU should be merged with the other schools in the state system.

This is a bureaucratic nightmare. I watch folks come to the public library to use a computer. These folks do not have the access or the computer skills to be able to sign up for the federal health exchanges. Despite what some bureaucrat says ( "I’m pretty confident that our IT infrastructure is going to be pretty solid"), if you do not know how to use a computer, you are out of luck.

ACC school is out. Lock your doors and windows. Watch your back on the streets.

Prince Avenue is a major commuter route into Athens. I use this route five days a week, Jefferson to UGA. Attempts to make Prince Avenue slower will result in the kind of clogging that we see on Hancock in late afternoon. Recently, a bike ride came through Athens on Prince Avenue between 8 and 8:30 AM on a weekday. The riders were accompanied by a police escort that blocked intersections to allow the bikers to ride through. This event clogged traffic for an hour. A drive that normally take 10 minutes took me 45 minutes, I was late for work and was reprimanded. Prince Avenue will remain a major commuter artery. Talk of changes to make the route less commuter friendly smacks of the sort of elitism that characterize some of the Athens neighborhoods.

The deficit is going down because Obama raised taxes and congress cut spending. Still the rich keep getting richer -- so life is good for the 1%. the other 99%, not so much. Way to go Mr. President.

This is the stuff that give folks something to talk about on TV and radio, it gives writer something to write about. It is not in the interest of the entertainment industry to let the argument go away.

This does not surprise me -- a used car salesman ! No wonder I do not trust this guy with his pandering dialogue.

The union, the politicians, GOP and demos, are all a bunch of crooks -- fire them all.

The only way to identify this student as loitering, is that he was in the school after hours. Half of the student body "loiters" during school hours.

Make sure your doors and windows are locked, schools out.

Get the bibles out of the State buildings. Do not waste time and money on some lawyer to force the removal. Georgia needs to enter the the current century.

Tell me again why we need to waste money on this position ? No matter what the recommendations, the politicians will make the final decisions; why not just let politicians do the job in the first place and save the money ?

My life is not as good as it was 6 years ago. Obama tells me to pay for other peoples health insurance, Republicans want me to "get by" on a fixed salary while hey raise "fees" and take all the graft they can get. I have no use for any of them.

Of course the other stories about ACC students show up in the paper -- like today -- the story about students stealing from other students. I wish it was not so, but it is --- there is a culture in ACC schools that poisons the system -- a culture of thuggery and bullying -- a culture of education is not important. I live in Athens and my children used to go to ACC schools -- now I pay for them to go elsewhere -- to a culture where students value an education.

I live in Athens. My children went to ACC schools. They were not in gifted/talented program -- just in classes with the other 90%. The instruction was aimed at the bottom of the curve-- an effort to drag poorly performing students along -- my kids were not challenged by their education, "they get it" was the response we got from administrators. We were told our kids would be challenged, would be put in better performing classes -- it never happened. Finally in desperation we removed our children from ACC public schools. We have lived in Athens for years and paid for our children to go to school elsewhere. The ACC schools are poor, not because of the teachers, but because of an unmotivated group of students that poison the schools with their attitude and thuggery. The report card is just a representation of what we know.

Get our people out of this hell hole. Mr. Obama show some leadership for once, bring them home now.