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Atlanta's growth bolstered the aspirations of cities and towns across this region. But the recession is delivering a dose of sobriety, and stoking fears in places like Allendale County, S.C., 200 miles away. Allendale County's unemployment rate stands at 23.4%. Ronnie Jackson, the mayor of the town of Allendale, population barely 3,700, says the town's decline started in the 1970s, when the old Route 301 was replaced by I-95 as the main connector to Florida. The town lost motels and restaurants, says Jackson, the mayor since last November. But the more recent closure...
Folks in Allendale don't have extra money to spend. So the town's already meager tax base is eroding. If any of Allendale's 38 employees leaves, there will be no replacement. Jackson's dreams of a new police station are dashed. Now, he fears many of the remaining residents will leave. The other day, he showed up in town with two employment applications to cut grass at a nearby nuclear power plant. "Loads of people came up to me grabbing applications," Jackson says. Still, he's hopeful some of the federal government's stimulus money will help Allendale...
...Potential changes to the staff assistant position reflect Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith’s comments during Tuesday’s town hall meeting, when he called for a broad-based restructuring of the College in response to a budget deficit of $220 million...
SLAM members also advertised their cause in Annenberg earlier this week with banners and pamphlets. One banner, reading “Greed is the New Crimson. No Layoffs!” made another appearance at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences town hall budgeting meeting on Tuesday...
...independence from China. "The Chinese always avoid taking pictures with the Taiwanese flag," says Political Scientist Yang Tai-Shuenn of Taipei's Chinese Culture University. "That may insult the Taiwanese people." One 63-year old tourist caused a stir in the Taiwanese media by carving his name and Chinese town in large characters on a rock on a famous stretch of Taiwan's coast. Eventually, the Chinese media shamed into making a public apology. "I'm not very cultured. I didn't know I was making a serious mistake," the Yangtse Evening Paper reported the man saying. "My daughter...