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Macon Council Tables Hotel/Motel Tax a Second Time (FOX 24 Macon)
Macon City Council again taking a look at the controversial hotel/motel tax issue. The proposed resolution would ask the General Assembly to increase the tax and include the Tubman Museum and the Children's Museum along with the Georgia Sports and Music Halls of Fame in the split of the funds.
Robert Ward, a Georgia blues musician who played with some of Motown's biggest artists, died Dec. 25. He was 70. (All About Jazz)
His wife, Roberta, told the Telegraph of Macon that her husband died at his home in Dry Branch in central Georgia. She said her husband had suffered a stroke in 2001 and never fully recovered.
Council postpones action on festival funding – again (Macon Telegraph)
For the second time in just a few weeks, the Macon City Council narrowly rebuffed an attempt to take funding away from the Cherry Blossom Festival and give it instead to the Georgia Children’s Museum and the Harriet Tubman African American Museum.
Georgia’s Cigarette Tax Going Up? (FOX 24 Macon)
Georgia’s Cigarette Tax Going Up? A Savannah lawmaker plans to increase Georgia's tax on cigarettes. State Representative Ron Stephens is calling for a tobacco tax hike as the state wrestles with a budget shortfall expected to top 2-billion.
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