Another great job by Fayette County Sheriffs Department. Thank you again!! Another drug deal was stopped, this time in the parking lot of the Publix in Tyrone. I spoke to a SWAT team member shortly after the suspects were taken into custody. FOX5 news has reported that 4 suspects were involved, one of whom fled in a vehicle that later flipped over and caused injury to an innocent person. And yes, gunshots were fired in the parking lot.

When are criminals going to get it, Fayettenam is a bad place to commit a crime.

Stay in Atlanta so you can blend in with all of the other criminals.

Good job land sharks!!

There was also another shooting in Fayetteville early this morning one officer was hurt, according to the ajc. Be safe out there we need you guys.

The shots fired thing is what blows my mind. I think these bad guys have been watching too many Scar Face re-runs and other druggy shows that usually glorify the bad buys while they casually blow away the cops.

Thankfully our guys are not as incompetent as the movies might show law enforcement officers to be. If the thugs were really smart they wouldn't carry. When the law came they would just "throw down", get locked up, make bail and go after it again. Heck, with all the trial lawyers running around with their stinky plea deals and our judges buying into them, why would they want to risk their lives going up against our Rooster Cogburns?

Great job again guys!

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Yeah, the attempted drug deal is bad enough, but the gunfire is really disturbing. It's still too hot outside to go shopping in a bullet-proof vest.

In PTree City, we don't give bonuses. And I don't think the Mayor & Council have had raises to their salaries (something like 10 K/year for Mayor and 7K per year for the rest) in decades.

And the employees are not getting salary CUTS - they can still earn other raises. I wish I worked somewhere that guaranteed me 5-7% raises every year, and charged less than $100/month for insurance. Wonder if I qualify for stormwater manager (KIDDING, PTC Guy).

What Young said was: "You see those are the people who have been overcharging us", “and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."

First off lets’ compare apples to apples.

How on earth is a small, family owned/operated grocery store going to compete with just about anything? They have little to NO buying power. In most cases have a limited command of the English language. They are locating their business’s in some of the most poverty stricken, crime infested, gang controlled areas of L.A.

Are the “non” Jews, Koreans and Arabs store owners selling anything better? I doubt it. By the way, what other “ethnic” store owners are there?

So now it’s “well I can buy a better quality of bread in Beverly Hills than I can buy in crime central.”

Any store that can afford to operate in Beverly Hills can afford to buy goods that are better and at a discount price way and above what some little mom and pop can.

The price of bread in a Publix ranges from .89 to over $3.00 a loaf and they have 23 different kinds. Do you think mom and pop can compete with that?

It sounds like Andy has been hangin with Cynthia.

I've heard nothing but good about her. And, according to the resource officer, 10 kids have already been suspended this year for fighting at school. It sounds like SMHS is off to a good start in dealing with bullies and thugs.

Principal Toney is awesome. She deals w/bullying, and believes the victim. I've even seen her do this once when the bully was a staff member!!!! Students need to know that they are there to learn, and cannot disrupt others learning. Toney can't fix Sweat's sweet treatment of athletes and super-parents kids right away but she's working on it, to the benefit of ALL of the students.

Mom to 3, plus a few strays

She didn't take time to reply to an email request from a Fayette County student (not from SMHS) organizing a service project that would directly benefit her students. A short reply was all that was necessary - I'm not impressed.

Yes, there was one who didn't promise to cut taxes, as a matter of fact he said it could'nt be done. On many occasions I heard him ask Harold, "were's your tax plan"?..."just show us your tax plan". Now, now we know there was no tax plan to show. Yes there was a candidate who found a way to increase the city's revenue by over $500,000.00 annually without no additional cost to the tax -payer. This money could have lightened the city's tax load. Yes, there was a candidate who promised not to accept a paycheck from the city without adding improved value to the citizens. Yes, there was a candidate that refused to accept contributions from the developers and power brokers of the city. Yes, there was one candidate, only one candidate, who wrote in black and white his whole political plan for all to review. Yes, there was a candidate who even found a way for the senior citizens of Peachtree City to receive an added tax break. I wonder who he was.

Dar, what are you doing on here at 1:00am?

Alright big guy PTC80, you can't have it both ways. You're double dealing. You said that Logsdon had to do what he did on the budget because of public safety (even though there's a lot more than public safety in the budget). You also said he was over spending on recreation and that he shouldn't have cut employee compensation.

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Not to be sarcastic, but I didn't really say (hardly) any of that. I really wish you would actually read my post before attacking me.
1. You said that I said, "Logsdon had to do what he did on the budget because of public safety". I did not say that at all. I said that he was uneducated about the city’s needs, despite his campaign for mayor, and made promises that he could not realistically keep. The budget is composed of many items; you are wildly inaccurate in your statement that I blamed this on public safety needs. Read it. I know as well as anybody that there are numerous components to a budget.
1.1 - "...had to do what he did ". I said he had to raise taxes (realistically speaking). I did NOT say he had to do anything else that was agreed to - such as increasing insurance premiums for employees, cutting cost of living increases, and restructuring merit raises to cost the city less. Once again, your review of my statements is incorrect.
2. You also said, "You also said he was overspending on recreation..." Once again, that's not really what I said. I said, "Of course we could argue about amounts spent on different items all day, but the only expenditures I really did not agree with were related to some recreation developments that I thought should be lower priority." I'm not saying that I DON'T think the city overspends on recreation, because I do, but that really is not what I was saying in my previous post. I was saying that our city
management sometimes prioritizes recreation costs too highly, and often at the cost of other (more important) needs. If I was going to argue the point about overspending, I would have pointed out that Peachtree City's recreation budget, comparatively speaking, is approximately 200% over-funded in comparison to other similar cities. If I really wanted to argue the points you bring up, I might also mention that we are roughly 17% under-funded on Fire/EMS services, and nearly 40% on Police services. Yes, I think that is imbalanced, and irresponsible. In the continual struggle to keep Peachtree City the kind of place that it is, I think it's important to spend a lot on recreation in this type of community. However, there has got to be a smaller margin of over-budgeting on it, or that struggle will undoubtedly be lost when the city feels the effects of under-funding other areas of the city’s budget. Who wants to go to the park when you're worried about getting robbed or raped? How about your house burning down while you're sitting in the $100,000 bathroom at your child's soccer game? Maybe more importantly in your eyes; how about your property values dropping because Peachtree City isn't the perfectly safe little city of smiles and hugs that it used to be?
3. "...and that he shouldn't have cut employee compensation." I actually did, more-or-less, say that. I warned of the consequences actually. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that firemen, cops, grass cutters, poop scoopers, librarians, road-kill collectors, recreation coordinators, and other such people make this town the place that it is. And guess what; most of them can't even afford to live here. So no, I don't think that guy cutting grass on Hwy 54 in the 90 degree heat, or that cop dealing with your spoiled brat of a child, should have their pay cut because you're sitting there in your $300,000 house complaining about another $30.00 a year in taxes. I'm an upper-middle class, status-quo white guy, and I personally would not blink an eye at paying another $100 per year in taxes to make sure that the people who take care of me are taken care of themselves. I’m sure the lower-income individuals would not mind either – given that the cost is basically proportionate to one’s lifestyle. In fact, as I understand it, with the County cuts this year PTC could have raised taxes even MORE and we still would have come out cheaper overall on our tax payments.
- Lastly, I'm not bashing Spear Road Guy, but please make sure you understand something before you open your mouth and complain about it. That "recap" of what I said was actually rather comical. It reminded me of the cliché housewife that you see on TV shows, grotesquely distorting what her husband says and turning it around on him in some haphazard attack on his credibility or intelligence. The reply to my post (by Spear Road Guy) stated that I am "double dealing". Maybe that makes sense if you assume the other things he said were true, but I think it's pretty clear that everything in my previous post is perfectly fluid, and not intended to demand anything unrealistic of anybody.
--Actual last thing. I want to make sure there was no misunderstanding about my political alignment because of this. I am not a supporter Harold Logsdon, and I'm not saying he should skate free for any political misdeeds. I was saying that campaign lies such as these should not be a shock when they happen. Honestly, society breeds that by supporting people who promise those things. In reality, I did not like any of our recent mayoral candidates. But let's not forget that he is only a small part of the big picture. Most of the things that actually end up happening are planned by the city manager, and then approved by a five-person council. I’m only talking about Harold because that was the hot topic in Free Speech. If I was going to start griping, it would probably start with Bernie McMullen. Good thing I’m not.
Good night all.

I didn't really say that: I said this (same thing). Ever hear of geting more out of a police or fire force by intelligence instead of quantity? What other cities waste providing jobs has nothing to do with us. Hire a consultant (by council--not by management) to check it out.

Dopplerobserver: Why don't you research the education of our local police/fire force in comparison to national averages. Then, you can report back to us with your staggering figures about how accurate (or inaccurate) your post is.

What they need is direction and a raise---not more of them. Their education level is only important so far as it takes to learn how to be a cop.

I actually agree with you, to an extent. I only mentioned education because it seemed that you were insulting the intelligence of the police and firemen. That I disagree with, but if you're questioning tactics in leadership then it is certainly your right to do so - and I won't argue with you over your opinion (everybody's entitled to one). "Direction and a raise" is important, but based on the information given by Chief Murray at the council meetings and the council retreat, I personally believe they need more officers as well. A city like this one should not "routinely" have to "hold" calls because there are not enough officers to answer them. That's my two cents worth.

I would be nice if we could get more out of our weather people by using intelligence. That's almost impossible, isn't it?

We have one fireman per truck right now in PTC. Which probably would be ok until it's my house on fire, and then it will definitely not be ok. I takes one engineer to run the pressure gages and one to actually go into the burning building.

After the summer we have had here, we need more than the 4 new officers we are getting. No matter how creative the scheduling is for our officers, with the number we have this city can't be covered adequately.
It would be interesting to see some research on how effective it is to have cops patrolling. I think it would be a deterent to crime. So far I'm not having any luck on a google search on this topic. Anybody? PTC Guy? You usually are a wealth of information maybe you will have some luck with this.

PTC80, that was a fascinating explanation of what you actually said. You mentioned, "comparatively speaking,[recreation spending] is approximately 200% over-funded in comparison to other similar cities." If you're comparing us to College Park, sure thing. However, apples to apples, I'd dare say that Alpharetta spends significantly more per capita than Peachtree City on Recreation.

In any event, have a remarkable day big guy!

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Is College Park a similar city? No. I am comparing it to other "Class B" cities (I think that's what they called them) - a factor determined by population, per capita income, and other such factors. I don't really have time to look up the article again right now, but if you'll research this before challenging my credibility, you'll find that you're inaccurate in your assumptions again. Go ahead and search for it in the Citizen, it has the exact percentages, and as I recall, we were higher than all of the other cities surveyed. I beleive Alpharetta was one of them, but once again, look it up, I don't have the article in front of me.
By the way, what's with that picture of a girl on your icon Spear Road Guy?

A bunch of PHDs wouldn't help a bit, now would it?

Not sure why you posted this twice, but see my previous response.

PTC80......Where did you get that cartoon picture of Greg Dunn From?

That's funny... Greg Dunn... I just hope you're joking.

Ok...I'm joking.

I know that face from somewhere, I just can’t remember.

It's a cartoon rendition of my own handsome mug.... yea, that's it.

You were a bit wordy. I loved how you tried to defend Logsdon's broken promises. It's funny how the county can roll them back year after year but Logsdon cannot make it happen. It's also funny how everyone uses police, fire and roads (as if they are the only three items in the $30 million budget) as excuses for Logsdon and his council. By the looks of it, he is having problems with more than just taxes.

How do see paying back the bad loans for the development authority like the free speecher mentioned?

Sorry - let me break it down for those of you who can only read single line responses:

The County gets its money on the backs of the cities.

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Wow, people really ARE stupid!

Where's Jose?

On special assignment. I'm filling in - my boss had to post originally, but he's back in hiding now (had to get out of the rain, his cave was flooded last night).
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Wow, people really ARE stupid!

Say the name out loud and you'll recognize it as the French equivalent of another poster's name here.

Where is that clown. Hmmmm.

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Keeping it real and to the core of the issue, not the peripherals.

You're becoming more Sybil than Sybil. I mean Janet.