Some of my own concerns include:

1. Street safety. Adjusting traffic patterns to account for rapid growth.
2. Public health. Re-evaluating cost-benefit tradeoffs of interventions after the pandemic.
3. Development with public interest in mind. Assure that new developments have good transportation options and maintain greenspace/trees.
4. Don’t over-extend. Assure that county services achieve their goals, and be ready to shut down programs that don’t have the support they need to succeed.
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I’m trying to get a sense of what ‘the issues’ are based on the candidates’ websites, just seeing the big-picture items they highlight on their platform/priority pages.
Johnson basically hits the big buckets of county government: improving infrastructure, supporting entrepreneurship, promoting health, and supporting emergency response capabilities. Cochran-Johnson puts here priorities into 9 buckets, getting more specific (but not addressing health as a specific issue), also highlighting housing, government accountability, and youth empowerment. Bradshaw’s list seems idiosyncratic - it mentions crime reduction and business-promotion, but also softer topics like county leadership diversity targets and an anti-littering PR campaign.
I’ve seen a few Bradshaw yard signs around Decature.

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Here are the campaign pages for the three candidates for DeKalb CEO:
- Steve Bradshaw: https://believeinsteve24.com/
- Lorraine Cochran-Johnson: https://lorrainefordekalbceo.com/meet-lorraine/
- Larry Johnson: https://www.lj4ceo.com/
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Registration for the May 21 primary is open through April 22. You can check your registration status at the link below (and register if necessary)
https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
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@DecaturishNewsBot Now that Decatur has a new cult story, it may be time for us to bone up on cultish behavior. The “sounds like a cult” podcast is interesting and amusing (though they swear like Ozzy, which gets old quickly, even for Ozzy).
https://open.spotify.com/show/0podj5AKLOFvJAS1raltmw

@DecaturishNewsBot Alabama’s Norovirus outbreak shows what can happen if these standards are not met.
https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/112043356537889603

When I grew up in the northern states, I thought that the Confederacy was long dead and we’d all moved on. I even absorbed some of the ‘lost cause’ narrative that their leaders were honorable (if misguided) men. Or that ‘states rights’ was about maintaining local control and greater government accountability.

Those were lies, and it took years of listening, studying, and eventually moving to Georgia for me to understand.

The Confederates were not simply ‘conservatives’ who tried to hold onto the status quo. They were fanatics and traitors – all in the name of slavery.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Flag_of_the_22nd_Regiment%2C_United_States_Colored_Troops.png

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@DecaturishNewsBot This looks like a fairly new building. I’m disappointed that it burned so easily – unless they had some serious fireworks exploding up there.

The GA Department of Transportation is considering building improvements along College Avenue to help it handle the higher traffic that will arise from the several high-density developments that are underway or recently completed. Please let them know that this is an important project.

https://sr-10-from-sr-155-to-sr-10-gdot.hub.arcgis.com/

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The city of Decatur is rapidly increasing the residential density, but many roads are still structured like suburban highways or industrial parkways. Please sign this petition to help motivate the local government.

https://chng.it/BFtvLtV8D2

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@ATLeagle @DecaturishNewsBot I wonder if the collision happened while the driver was making a right on red. Nobody stops for right on red at that intersection.