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Elrado Ramsay by Ramzad
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
 My articles, Elrado Ramsay, Forum, CrossRoadsNews, June 9, 2012, Funding won't solve problems facing our schools, was not intended to focus on waiting for transformation from what is positive, relativistic platitudes about being positive, nor to assuage the feelings of any educator, politician, ...
T-SPLOST will increase tax on your food! T-SPLOST: A Regressive Tax that Overtax the Middle Class and the Poor by RNwhocares
Jun 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
 Memorandum To:        CEO Burrell Ellis and DeKalb Board of Commissioners CC:        DeKalb County Taxpayers & Voter, DeKalb Delegation, DeKalb Board of Education, Media, and all appropriate parties From:     Viola Davis with Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter Date:      6/10/2012 Re...
IOTY_Picture_059.jpg I am sick of my taxes being raised! by ArnoldButlerSr
Jun 07, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
   Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson has proposed a budget with a 2-mill tax increase, which would add $20 million in revenue for next year and give DeKalb schools the highest tax rate in the Atlanta-metro area. I am sick and tired of having my taxes raised and having nothing to show for it. ...
6DHP_Picture_059.jpg Do you know if your child’s school has a registered nurse or a qualified health professional? by ArnoldButlerSr
Jun 03, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
 Many of our children attend schools that do not have a registered nurse or a qualified health professional. Instead, many of our children are being treated by the school secretary, school counselor, teacher, or even cafeteria worker.  Although they may provide a much needed service for the stude...
Does T-SPLOST increase food tax 1% Does a vote for T-SPLOST increase the food tax 1%? by RNwhocares
May 28, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
 Dear Taxpayers and Voters, We are requesting you contact every elected official you know and ask the following question: Does a vote for T-SPLOST increase the food tax 1%? In other words, DeKalb County sales tax will go from7% to 8% and the food tax will go from 3% to 4%.  If it is foun...
3LII_Screen_shot_2012_05_27_at_3.07.25_AM.png Language by Shakiri
May 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
 Language is one of my favorite things.  I dare not call it a foreign language because it’s only “foreign” because you’re not used to it. As a student of languages, the coolest thing about them is on a very fundamental (and complicated) level; they allow one to communicate directly with som...
GVML_IMG_1004.JPG "Biographies" by Shakiri
May 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
 Ok, so I have this borderline obsession with biographies.  And the odd thing is I don’t desire this kind of fame but to understand the lives of people and where they come from is interesting.  Doesn’t matter who it is, there is just something attractive about a person at the top of their game. ...
DeKalb County with a negative loss of 45% DeKalb County: 45% loss on TSPLOST by RNwhocares
May 11, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
 DeKalb County with a 45% loss on TSPLOST DeKalb County: Update Why Vote “No” on  TSPLOST  Referendum – July 31 st By Viola Davis RN  BSN   When will we as taxpayers and voters get tired of “status quo” solutions that do not solve problems?  The  TSPLOST  referendum is yet another so-ca...
DO6A_IMG_0243.jpg Education - Tiger Mom or American Dream Mom? by Shakiri
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
 The way we are educated seems to have more to do with the way we turn out as individuals than just about any other single factor in our development.  Who we know, how we know them, what we do for a living and our work ethic – I would argue are all factors of our education and atmosphere.  So ...
BBXY_Screen_shot_2012_05_04_at_1.04.41_PM.png Cultural Hybrid - Hong Kong by Shakiri
May 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
 Hong Kong is one of the most amazing places I have ever been!  Such an incredible fusion of cultures.  Such a mixture of wealth, passion and ambition.  Walking down the street in Hong Kong one truly feels that anything is possible.   So I began to ask myself, is this China?  Not sure...