Snow Joke: Craig Ending A Public Safety Career That Dates Back 47 Years Thursday, January 21, 2021 - by Mitch Talley, Whitfield County Director of Communications
Whitfield Emergency Services Director Claude Craig opens up gifts during his retirement reception Wednesday. Craig has served the county in various public safety posts since 1974. - photo by Mitch Talley
Over the years, Whitfield County Emergency Services Director Claude Craig has seen his share of snowstorms, floods, tornadoes, car crashes, chemical spills, fires, and other disasters.
He’s made it his life’s mission to help his fellow citizens cope with the aftermath of such disasters and try to prevent them from happening in the first place.
(The Center Square) – A Georgia lawmaker is pushing for more transparency in tax-incentive proposals for developers ahead of the upcoming legislative session.
Hall employees ask Georgia Supreme Court to hear $75 million pension case
The current and former Hall County employees in an estimated $75 million class-action lawsuit concerning county pension benefits are asking the Georgia Supreme Court to hear their case.
The lawsuit, which was first filed in January 2017, alleged that Hall County improperly froze contributions to the employees’ retirement plans.
In petitioning the Georgia Supreme Court, the employees’ attorney Michael Kramer and his co-counsel said the case “presents matters of great concern, gravity and importance to the public.”
“Primarily, the issue for which (the) petitioners seek (the court to hear the case) involves an unsettled question under Georgia law on a matter that impacts hundreds of thousands of county employee pensioners whose benefits may have been frozen at some point and styled as an ‘amendment,’ rather than a plan termination triggering due process,” the plaintiffs’ petit
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