Notes for Tuesday, 7/22/2008

GAS

The average ATL gas price dropped from 4.021 to 4.007. It was 4.09 a week ago. Gas is selling for under $4 at some Decatur stations. Find the lowest prices near you at AtlantaGasPrices.com.

DECATUR

On Saturday, August 30, at 4:30 p.m., Cheryl Klein, Continuity Editor of Harry Potter Serieswill be judging the Harry Potter Quiz Show on the Target Children's Stage at the Decatur Book Festival. The muggle contestants, who will be selected from the audience, will duel to 
correctly answer trivia questions all about Rowling’s Wizardry World.

METRO DECATUR

Lt. Governor Casey Cagle announced today that Bart Gobeil of Sandy Springs will serve as his Chief of Staff. Gobeil succeeds Brad Alexander, of Decatur, who is departing government service to pursue opportunities in the private sector. [Thomaston Times]

DEKALB

If you can, be at the Maloof Auditorium at 10AM today to tell the commissioners you're not interested in paying a lawyer $473.33/hr to fight Dunwoody incorporation. [Or, that you are, if you are.]

Police say Atlanta rapper Lil Scrappy is out of jail after being arrested following a fight with his sister's boyfriend. The 24-year-old rapper, whose name is Darryl Richardson, was released on $1,500 bond from the DeKalb County jail in Georgia on Sunday. [AP]

According to gossip site TMZ.com, Kid Rock entered a plea of no contest in a DeKalb County court Monday. He was reportedly fined $1,000, sentenced to one year of probation, 80 hours of community service and told to take six anger management classes. Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, was arrested in October 2007, when he and members of his entourage got into a fight at a Waffle House in north DeKalb County. [11Alive]

High winds knocked out power to thousands of homes Monday night across metro Atlanta. At the height of the power outage about 16,000 households were left in the dark.Most of the outages were in the Tucker/Lithonia area, with Georgia Power estimating about 9,000 homes without power in that area. [Action News 2]

NATIONAL

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton lent her campaign another $1 million at the end of June, underscoring the difficulty she was having staying ahead of creditors and retiring a mountain of campaign debt, filings with the Federal Election Commission show. Even though the Democratic nomination fight came to a close in early June, with Senator Barack Obama emerging as the presumed nominee, Mrs. Clinton’s debts to her vendors increased to $12 million at the end of the month from $10.4 million at the end of May. In addition, after her latest loan on June 30, Mrs. Clinton has now lent her campaign a total of $13.2 million. The Clinton campaign’s debt and how much Mr. Obama’s doing to help her tackle it has been an ongoing sore spot in the efforts to bring their supporters and the party together. [NYT]

 

more soon

optional personal blogger info in the continuation

_________

This blogger's average weight is 182.3 (back where is was 7 weeks ago) and still climbing. He's a bit baffled, but hopes to turn it around and start heading back down soon.

Comments

[Carolyn]

Decatur residents and businesses are included in the DeKalb County order to "boil your water" for 3 minutes before using, due to pump shutdown sometime Tuesday night.