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The Needlepoint Experts Your one-stop Needlepoint Shop! COMMUNITY Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens talks to members of the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce at the chamber’s 2013 Fall Gala at LeeBrant Jewelers on Nov. 7. JOE EARLE Olens: Trade Atlanta’s second airport for Tennessee water mm.%m BY JOE EARLE joeearle@reporternewspapers.net 3137 E. Shadowlawn Ave, NE Atlanta, GA 30305 • institchesatlanta.com COUEDNJrT Dear friend and neighbor, FISH HOUSE & OYSTER BAB Gift Amount: $5.00 Thank you! -Artie and Nik Please present this coupon to your server before you dine. This is valid on any one entree of your choice when you purchase two entrees. Strictly dine-in only. Not valid with any other offer. Expires 12-31-13. WE WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THREE GREAT YEARS ! To show appreciation for your support, we would like you to enjoy $5.00 off two entrees, every time you dine with us, till the end of the year! Yay! At our prices, that’s the equivalent of several dinners, depending on how often you join us!! f Reporter Newspapers Email updates Be in the know ReporterNewspapers.net Metro Atlanta’s water problems could be addressed by striking a deal, allowing Chattanooga to claim a second Atlanta airport in return for water from the Ten nessee River, Georgia Attorney Gener al Sam Olens told Dunwoody business leaders. “Sooner or later, we need to look at a second airport. Chattanooga wants to be that second airport. I’m interested in helping them be that second airport in return for one hell of a pipe into Geor gia,” Olens said, answering a question on how Georgia could get a share of wa ter from the Tennessee River to supple ment the Chattahoochee River as metro Atlanta’s chief water supply. Olens told the more than 75 cham ber members attending the organiza tion’s 2013 Fall Gala at LeeBrant Jew elers on Nov. 7 that negotiations over water from the Tennessee River should be political, not legal, actions. “This is a really good issue for a sec ond-term governor, and it’s a really good issue for other state’s second-term gover nor,” said Olens, who chaired the Cobb County Commission and the Atlanta Regional Commission before becoming attorney general. Besides, he said, Georgia already was embroiled in lawsuits with South Caro lina and Florida, so it might not be wise to engage in legal action against Tennes see. “I need free passage to at least one state,” he joked. Olens said enforcement of tougher state laws against “pill mills” is making a difference in Georgia. Olens said that after Florida tight ened its laws dealing with prescription drugs, problems spilled into Georgia. “We went from 10 to 140 pill mills in the course of two years in our state,” he said. “This was going right up the inter state. It was drug dealing.” Jester enters race for state school superintendent BY MELISSA WEINMAN melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net Former DeKalb school board mem ber Nancy Jester announced that she will run for Georgia school superinten dent. Jester, who represented Dunwoody and Brookhaven in District 1 for the DeKalb County Board of Education, said she is running to reform education in Georgia. She made her announce ment Nov. 11 at Brook Run Park. “More classroom, less bureaucracy. That’s what Georgians deserve and that’s what they’ll get from me,” Jester said. Jester said she would like for Georgia to spend less money on administration. She said Georgia spends more per pu pil than many neighboring states, such as Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, yet has a lower high school graduation rate. “That has to stop,” Jester said. “Bu reaucrats do not teach children.” Jester left the DeKalb school board in March after she and four other school board members were suspended by Gov. Nathan Deal. The Southern Associa tion of Colleges and Schools placed the DeKalb County School System on ac creditation probation. Jester says it was her own investiga tion of the system’s budgeting practices that led to the accreditation agency’s in volvement. “I’m really proud of my re cord,” Jester said. “I uncovered financial malfeasance in DeKalb.” She said she was willing to sacrifice her seat on the school board because, “it wasn’t about me.” “It demonstrates my commitment to telling the truth to taxpayers,” Jester said. Republicans Richard Woods, Fitz Johnson and Matt Shultz are also running for the seat. State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan is the only Democrat in the race. 4 | NOV. 15 —NOV. 28, 2013 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net DUN
