Kalki Yalamanchili has turned in 9,967 accepted petitions, or just more than twice the number the Secretary of State Office has determined he needs to have his name placed on the ballot on Nov. 5 as an Independent candidate for Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney.
That determination comes from a report filed with the Secretary of State Office dated Friday (July 26) by the Oconee County Office of Elections and Registration and the Clarke County Office of Elections and Voter Registration.
The metropolitan transportation planning organization that has responsibility for Oconee County is in the final stage of modifying its documents to reflect the addition of $1.9 million in right of way funds for construction of the new interchange at SR 316 and the Oconee Connector.
The new money brings to $3.4 million the amount for right of way and preliminary engineering of the multi-grade interchange in the current Fiscal Year 2025. Of that, $2.8 million is federal funding.
Tim Bryant, whose radio program on Cox Media Group’s WGAU was ended on June 18, said on Monday night that he expects to be back on the air “in the next few weeks.”
Bryant said he also expects to resurrect his podcast, but his primary focus is getting back on radio, and he said he expects to be able to make an announcement soon.
Oconee County Schools received $4.5 million more in revenue over the just-completed Fiscal Year 2024 than it had anticipated when the Board of Education adopted that budget in May of 2023.
The largest part of that increase resulted from $2.4 million in Investment and Interest Income. The budget approved by the Board in May of 2023 had listed only $50,000 in expected income in that category.
To say that the Democratic challengers to Oconee County’s three incumbent Republican state legislators are entering the fall campaign at a financial disadvantage is a gross understatement.
House District 120 Rep. Houston Gaines had $657,766 Net Balance Cash On Hand at the beginning of this month.
His Democratic challenger, Andrew Ferguson, had $4,538.
The Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday night recommended that previously approved plans for the 24-acre cleared and graded parcel on the Oconee Connector at SR Loop 10 be modified to allow for a day-care center and private kindergarten.
Landscape Architect Ken Beall told the Commission that the developer of the multi-use project has been approached by someone who wants to open a Goddard School, a preschool franchise, as part of the project.
University of Georgia Political Science Professor Charles Bullock didn’t tell Oconee County Democrats last month that Joe Biden will win Georgia in November, but that he could, and he explained how that victory likely will have happened if it comes about.
Drawing on data from recent elections, Bullock said Democrats win when they get about 30 percent of the White vote and African-Americans make up about 30 percent of the electorate.
