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Hufstetler’s solution to fuel tax fight: Raise taxes on tobacco, generate $611 million — and maybe reduce smoking, medical costs

Posted on February 10, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Please click the above bar to hear Sen. Chuck Hufstetler on Monday’s Hometown Radio. State Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, R-Ga., joined us Monday morning on Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM to discuss his proposal to raise transportation funds from a different source: higher taxes on tobacco products. What follows are some of the notes… Read more

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Rome City Commission resolution torches legislative bid to siphon fuel tax from local government

Posted on February 9, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

The bid to stop a legislative proposal that would detour more than $3.1 million in funds from county and local governments — including both school systems — into a statewide transportation account is under fire from members of the Rome City Commission. At tonight’s meeting, beginning at 6:30 p.m., the commissioners have an agenda item… Read more

Hufstetler: Raise cigarette tax to fund transportation

Posted on February 7, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

From WRGA: With local officials vowing to fight the Transportation Act of 2015, state lawmakers are considering alternatives. The bill, as written, would take about $1.5 million of out the City of Rome’s coffers and about $1.3 million from the Floyd County Commission by cutting the local gas taxes. read more

Dempsey, Davis have strongly different takes on the effects on the House’s transportation funding proposal

Posted on February 7, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

On Friday morning, state Rep. Katie Dempsey joined us on Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM to discuss House Bill 170, a transportation funding proposal that is causing an uproar among city and county goverments as well as school boards across the state. At issue: If passed, the bill would siphon $500 million… Read more

Dempsey resolution supports Friday’s ‘Go Red for Women’ heart health campaign

Posted on February 6, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: State Rep. Katie Dempsey (R-Rome) recently sponsored HR 121, a resolution recognizing the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement and National Wear Red Day. Members of the General Assembly wore red at the State Capitol on Wednesday in support of National Wear Red Day. read more

Legislature’s ‘Transportation Act’ would detour several million dollars from city, county, school boards to state for road needs

Posted on February 5, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

From WRGA: The Transportation Funding Act of 2015 could cost Rome more than $1.5 million in revenue, according to Rome City Manager Sammy Rich. He shared the numbers during a transportation meeting Wednesday at the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce office. The number represents a 9.5 percent decrease to the city’s overall Local Option Sales Tax Revenue… Read more

Newsline: What’s buzzing. Off Broad opens. A ‘Luau to Die For.’ Politics: Gingrey, U.S. senators, gas tax fight

Posted on January 31, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Newsline is a mix of information gathered Friday by Hometown Headlines from a variety of sources. Off Broad hits the on switch: Since Thursday evening, Off Broad — a new lounge with a light menu at River Center and Hawthorn Suites — has been pouring and serving as Ira Levy’s latest project brings a new… Read more

Rec authority chair challenges county commissioners’ comments on operations/services; offers potential solution

Posted on January 30, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

The following is a note from Caroline P. Blaylock, the chair of the Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority, regarding the continuing operations of the agency and a possible solution to continuing funding concerns. As Board Chairman of the RFPRA, I feel compelled to respond to the current situation between the RFPRA – city and county for… Read more

A $500 million question on state transportation plan: Money diverted from city, county resources?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Rome City Commissioner Wendy Davis is sounding the red alert — and several stories in today’s AJC confirm — over the state’s proposed transportation “solution” that would divert nearly $500 million that current goes to cities and counties into transportation funding. read more

Newsline: What’s buzzing today. Business. Politics. Churches. The arts.

Posted on January 30, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Newsline is a mix of information gathered Thursday by Hometown Headlines from a variety of sources. Late 2015 opening for Kroger Marketplace? That’s what the marketers for other retail spots of Main Street in Cartersville as they try to fill the storefronts adjacent to Kohls. They write: “New 100,000 (square-foot) Kroger relocating across the street… Read more

Politics: Perdue named chair of subcommittees. Floyd County Republican Women meet Tuesday.

Posted on January 29, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) announces Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) will serve as chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development. This bcommittee will have responsibility for reviewing the budget and operations of the State Department and USAID. “From the debatable effectiveness of our foreign aid programs… Read more

Loudermilk completes four-day tour of the southwest border with Homeland Security Committee

Posted on January 26, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) recently spent four days touring the Southwest border with fellow members of the House Homeland Security Committee. Led by Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, the delegation examined security along several major cities along the U.S. border, including San Diego, California, Tuscan and Sierra Vista, Arizona, and McAllen, Texas. “My… Read more

Graves, Loudermilk vote to ban federal funds for abortions, abortion insurance

Posted on January 22, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-14) released the following statement after voting in favor of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015 (H.R. 7), which prohibits taxpayer funded abortions: “This legislation is especially meaningful to me because my days working to protect and promote innocent life go back many years. From… Read more

Updated: Holtzendorf, Lee, Shell are the finalists for the Coosa seat on the Floyd County Board of Education; interviews are Friday

Posted on January 21, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

New: Official release from the Board of Education on the final three. New: Interview times for the board candidates on Friday; all are open to the public. Three applicants for the vacant Coosa seat on the Floyd County Board of Education have been asked back for interviews beginning Friday. On Tuesday, following talks with representatives… Read more

President Obama’s State of the Union address. Plus: Reaction from the Georgia delegation

Posted on January 21, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on the president’s speech, please click White House or State of the Union As reported by the Washington Post: President Obama, who took office six years ago amid a historic recession and two U.S. wars, declared unequivocally Tuesday that the nation had clawed its way out of those dire straits, praising Americans for their… Read more