Transcribed from a Dunwoody coffee talk held by Nancy Jester last year, Rep. Tom Taylor (the sponsor of the bill for Lavista Hills) says that "they" (Dunwoody) have great schools and its the rest of DeKalb that has a problem. Save Tucker! contends that it is EXACTLY this type of thinking that is preventing our system from improving. When you have the cream of the crop of 100,000 students to pick and choose from, of course your schools will be better than the ones you plucked them from. Rep. Taylor's speech, in part: " ... I am also on the economic development committee... we were down at Gulfstream in Savannah which is a aircraft manufacturer, just a jewel for the state of Georgia and they have a seven year backlog of orders. Their average, entry-level aircraft is about $65 million dollars. They employ a lot of people. They don't employ a lot of people from Georgia. And, at the end of the conversation we had with th...
This is a blog about the small town of Tucker, Georgia, which is located just outside the major metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. On March 13, 2013, the residents of Tucker learned that a small group of politically motivated individuals who lived nearby wanted to incorporate using Tucker's commercial areas and leaving many of the long-time residents on the outskirts of the new city. This is the story of how the residents have fought back to preserve history and their own community.