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Primary Election
Tuesday, July 31,2012
Early Voting Now Through Friday, .July 27, 2012 (set pg, 6 for details)
“GEORGIA’S BEST WEEKLY’
abannaf) tribune
July 25,2012- July 31,2012 • Vol. 41 No. 21 • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Vote “Yes” For TSPLOST: It Is Good For Savannah
TSPLOST is the
Transportation Special
Purpose Local Option Sales
Tax. It is a statewide referen
dum on the July 31, 2012
ballot. If it passes, a 1 per
cent sales tax will be collect
ed for ten years to help
improve roads and enhance
other transportation related
services in Georgia. For the
purpose of collecting and
administering the funds,
Georgia is divided into 12
regions and Savannah is in
the Coastal Region.
For Savannah and the
Coastal Region, TSPLOST
means jobs. If we do not
improve our roads, some
major businesses that are
considering Savannah or
Coastal Georgia will locate
in other areas of Georgia or
other states. Therefore, this
is not the time for us to sit at
home. It is time for us to go
out in large numbers and
vote. We need jobs for the
citizens of Savannah and the
Coastal Region of Georgia,
especially during these chal
lenging economic times.
One great feature of
TSPLOST is that if the refer
endum is approved in
Coastal Georgia, the funds
raised in this area will stay in
Coastal Georgia.
75 percent of the funds
raised in the Coastal
Region would go to trans
portation projects in this area
that are considered regional
in nature, such as the
removal of the 1-16 Flyover
on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blvd., the DeRenne
Improvement Project, and
others. The complete list of
the projects for the Coastal
Georgia Region can be seen
on the Georgia Department
of Transportation website.
The remaining 25 per
cent of the funds would
come to the Coastal Region
as discretionary funding for
local transportation projects.
Savannah
about $52
million
that
would be
used for
projects
selected
by you,
the resi
dents of
would receive
Savannah, and your City
Aldermen. There would be
more than $8 million used
for projects in each City
Council District. This money
would fund the resurfacing
of hundreds of small roads,
sidewalk installations, traffic
signals and other traffic safe
ty needs. We will be able to
get rid of many of the pot
holes in our neighborhoods.
The Chatham Area
Transit Authority will
receive more that $60 mil
lion in
funding
for capital
expendi
tures and
operations
over 10
years.
This
would
mean new
buses,
additional
routes, and
other improvements.
Mayor Edna Jackson
and the members of the
Savannah City Council real
ize that TSPLOST is a great
bargain.
They emphasize the
fact that because Savannah is
such a tourism center, almost
40 percent of the amount
raised that will be used for
transportation projects in the
Savannah area would be paid
by tourists and other visitors
to the area.. .not by residents
and property owners.
A large vote in
Savannah would indicate to
our neighbors in the sur
rounding communities that
we understand and accept
our responsibility to help the
entire coastal region
progress.
There is a great sense
of regional unity and we are
pleased that Mayor Jackson
is helping bring all of the
municipalities together for
the good of the entire
Coastal Georgia Region.
The Tea Party is lead
ing the campaign against the
TSPLOST.
Some of those who are
campaigning against
TSPLOST believe that
African-American voters in
Savannah will not under
stand how important this
vote is to the progress of our
community.
They are not concerned
about the people who depend
on the bus services provided
by the Chatham Area Transit
Authority. They also say that
we will not even vote on July
31 because African-
American community lead
ers and elected officials are
not doing enough to encour
age us to vote. Of course,
Mayor Jackson, the NAACP
and The Savannah Tribune
are working hard to disprove
this idea.
We hope that you will
vote “YES” for TSPLOST
by participating in Early
Voting, casting an Absentee
Ballot, or by going to the
polls on Tuesday, July 31.
You should also make
sure that your family mem
bers, friends and associates
vote “YES.” A “YES” vote
for TSPLOST is a vote to
keep Savannah and Coastal
Georgia moving forward.
American Career Development
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CEO and Founder Herbert Goodwin shown with Mayor Jackson and others at
On July 18, 2012,
American Career
Development Corporation
located at 645 Indian St. con
ducted its grand opening rib
bon cutting ceremony and
launched Savannah’s pre
miere record label and media
production company known
as Razor Sharp Records
South.
The company rolled out
the red carpet for special
guests which included
Mayor Edna Jackson,
Senator Lester G. Jackson
III, Pastor Hazel Scott of
Resurrection Pentecostal
Temple, Record Label
Executives and local citi
zens.
Herbert Goodwin, 29,
ribbon-cutting ceremony
CEO and Founder is a
native of South Carolina
with a background in
Ministry, music production
and recording arts. Mr.
Goodwin holds a bachelors
of science in entertainment
business/recording arts and
is apart of a large number of
organizations. Mr. Goodwin
supports his community
efforts to provide equality,
justice and positive change
for African Americans. He
brings big business and
much experience from Los
Angeles, California.
American Career
Development was founded
in 2012 to focus on
American job creation in the
American community by
coaching today’s youth and
producing positive media.
The company special
izes in production of educa
tional media presentations,
artist management, directing
music videos, inspirational
television commercials,
short films, publishing and
creative advertisement cam
paigns.
The company offers a
business consulting, corpo
rate branding, graphic
design, product placement,
business planning and artist
management.
For more information
email Ceohgoodwin@acd-
cusa.com or call (912) 236-
0049.
Sally Ride, First American
Woman to Orbit Earth Dies
Sally K. Ride, the first
American woman to orbit
Earth, died Monday after
fighting a battle with pancre
atic cancer . She was 61-
years-old.
Ride was chosen as an
astronaut in 1978, Ride
entered space with four male
colleagues on June 18, 1983,
on the shuttle Challenger.
This was the seventh flight of
the program.
However, Ride wasn't
the first woman in space.
That distinction fell to the
Soviet Union's Valentina
Tereshkova, who blasted
aboard a Vostok 6 rocket on
June 16, 1963.
Two other Russian
woman followed Tereshkova
into orbit. After Ride
returned for preparation for
her second flight in 1984, not
only had fellow astronaut
Judith Resnik already flown
on the shuttle, but Ride had a
female crewmate, Kathryn
Sullivan, aboard.
Ride's death was
announced on the website of
Sally Ride Science, an edu
cational organization that
Ride founded in 2001.
President Barack
Obama and First Lady
Michelle Obama issued a
statement about Ride’s death.
"Sally was a national
hero and a powerful role
model," the president said.
"She inspired generations of
young girls to reach for the
stars and later fought tire
lessly to help them get there
by advocating for a greater
focus on science and math in
our schools," The Obamas
said.
Rode was bom in 1951
in Los Angeles. Many times
Dr. Ride talked about how
as a child her father encour
aged her to reach for the
stars and encouraged her to
reach her full potential. Dr.
Ride listened to her father
and obtained a doctoral
degree in physics, shortly
after Dr. Ride joined NASA
in 1978.
Dr. Ride's astronaut
Class of 1978 was known as
the Thirty-Five New Guys.
The class held the distinc
tion of being NASA’s first
class in nine years and led
NASA from the Apollo era
through the productive
space shuttle program and
creation of the International
Space Station.
The class included
NASA's first six female
astronauts as well as the first
African and Asian
Americans to fly in space,
Guion Bluford, Jr. and
Ellison Onizuka.
Ride’s passion in life
was to encourage young
people, particularly girls, to
participate in the world of
math, science, engineering
and technology.
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