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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 2
NEWS BRIEFS
Business expo on financial
and program management
The Greater West Georgia
Business Resource Expo will be
held at the Burson Center on Wed.,
March 10th. There will be more
than a dozen area, state and federal
business advisors on hand for
discussion.
This is an opportunity to gain
information on the latest financial
and program management offerings
for small, medium or large busi
nesses and industries
This is a drop-in event anytime
between 8:30 a.m. and 12 noon.
Gossett in court March 8
for Amy Yates murder
by Chuck Wanager
Chris Gossett, who confessed in
2006 to killing 8-year-old Amy
Yates in a case that brought world
wide attention to Carroll County
earlier in the decade, will appear in
Superior Court in Carrollton on
March 8. His court time is scheduled
See YATES page 12
CNN anchor to appear at
UWG event: Betty Nguyen
The University of West Georgia’s
International Student Club is hosting
“An Evening with Betty Nguyen:
From Saigon to CNN” on March 8
at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center
Ballroom.
Nguyen, a CNN anchor of the
See CNN ANCHOR page 12
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One in eight Georgians at least 30 days behind on mortgage
by Carole Scott
According to Georgia Watch, a
consumer advocacy group, at the end
of 2009, one in eight of Georgians
with mortgage loans were at least 30
days behind on their loans.
Approximately one in four or
377,000 of Georgia’s 1,573,628
mortgages were underwater - the
balance due on the mortgage is less
than what the house can be sold for.
Experts nationwide agree, says
Georgia Watch, that the major cata
lyst of the housing market crash was
irresponsible mortgage lending.
So, it is not surprising that Georgia
State Senator Bill Hamrick (R-
Carrollton), chair of the Senate
Banking and Financial Institutions
Committee, has introduced a bill
(Senate Bill 57) that will ban prepay
ment penalties on subprime loans;
ban broker “yield spread premiums”
or kickbacks on subprime loans and
FHA loans; designate brokers as
agents of borrowers, with fiduciary
responsibilities; and require lenders
to verily borrower’s ability to repay
subprime loans, including income
with a low credit rating is called a
subprime loan.)
Hamrick’s bill focuses on brokers
because of the role they played in
bringing about the current financial
crisis. The role of a mortgage broker
is to bring together someone wanting
to borrow money to buy a house
with a lender willing to make a loan.
If this mortgage loan is not repaid,
ownership of the house will pass to
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The busy, but effective days
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to present possible solution
by Chuck Wanager
Follow Villa Rica’s Tim Bearden
on his daily rounds in Georgia’s state
capital building these opening days
of this year’s general assembly, and
you feel like you are back on the
Atlanta bypass. Even on what
Bearden said is a more laid-back
morning early in the legislative sea
son, it’s slow and go.
Actually it’s stop and go, as
Bearden, the Republican 68th
District state representative, exits a
Art of, from
“soul life”
story and photo by Carole Scott
Some painters see a scene that
catches their eye for some reason -
perhaps because of its beauty or mix
of shadow and light or even its stark
ness - and painstakingly create a
photographic-like copy of it. Others,
like the impressionists, view a scene
through a mental filter and paint
what results — in this case a near
sighted-like view of the scene. Like
Picasso, who is well known for such
things as randomly distributed body
parts, some paint totally from their
imagination.
Carrollton artist Fred Richards,
whose paintings will be on display at
the show “Shadow and Light” at the
Carrollton Cultural Arts Center’s
Roush Gallery from Friday, March 5,
5 - 7 pm when an opening reception
(public is invited) will be held, to
See RICHARDS page 14
rules committee meeting at about
10:00 a.m. and begins his measured
trek to the chandeliered chambers of
the House of Representatives. His
ultimate destination is the House
floor, where he will take his place at
his tiny, 100-plus year old desk and
sit and listen and decide and vote.
But first he must navigate the
crowd in the capital rotunda, which
is like an atrium in a modem office
tower. And on this day, at this hour,
See BEARDEN page 22
to national healthcare crisis
by Sam Gentry
There is a raging debate in
America over the current state and
future of healthcare. On Wednesday,
March 3rd, from 11:30 a.m. until
12:30 p.m. at Sunset Hills Country
Club, local entrepreneur Sheila
Butler will give a presentation on her
solution to the crisis.
Butler has been the owner of
Carrollton insurance agency Sheila J.
Butler & Company since October of
1997. Over the last year, she said she
has seen an increasing number of
people dropping their healthcare
See PRESENTATION page 14
Dr. Fred Richards’ art show will open Friday, March 5th. The public is invited to attend.
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