Google Wire Alerts - As reported in the Kansas City Star Newspaper, Southern lawmakers are pushing back against a proposal in the Administration's budget that ends compensation to cotton and peanut farmers for storage costs when they hold back on selling crops until they can net better market rates.

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives hosted its 27th Annual Farmers Conference Saturday, February 13, 2010 in Albany, Georgia at the Hilton Garden Inn.

Google News Alerts - Monday, Febraury 8, 2010, the Boy Scouts celebrated its 100^th birthday and today held a celebration to honor that milestone with U.S. Congressman Sanford Bishop serving as the keynote speaker. 

Americus, GA - Congressman Bishop participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new community in Americus that will feature new homes, retail stores and other community services.According to Pastor George Monts, a 24 hour day care facility, senior citizen center, a health wellness center other programs that will also be housed in this center there is also around 50,000 square foot of commerc

Albany, GA- Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. celebrated the new year at a special service hosted by Reverend Horace Boyd and Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia.

 The service commemorated freedom from slavery 147 years ago and the  in Albanysigning of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Shiloh Baptist Church was the first to host mass meetings with various civil rights organizations and is located directly across the street from the Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum and the Albany Civil Rights Institute.