Town Square: Rep. Carter requests earmark funding for First District projects Adam Van Brimmer, Savannah Morning News
Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Rep. Buddy Carter hasn t totally abandoned working for his constituents in favor of campaigning for U.S. Senate as a Trumpublican.
Carter recently filed for earmark funding for three district-specific projects, highlighted by a $5 million request for the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.
Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Rep. Buddy Carter hasn t totally abandoned working for his constituents in favor of campaigning for U.S. Senate as a Trumpublican.
Carter recently filed for earmark funding for three district-specific projects, highlighted by a $5 million request for the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.
Carter is the rare Georgia Republican to participate in the renewal of the earmark process. Six of the state s eight GOP reps, many of them outspoken Trump supporters, refused to submit requests and have labeled earmarks as pork-barrel spending.
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A small group of children line up on the school playground and the leader in front says, “Simon says, take one small step forward. All the children in a horizontal line a few yards away follow the instructions.
“Simon says, take two large steps to the left,” says the leader. All the other children take two large steps to the left.
Then comes another command.and a response.and so on.
Playing a simple game? Yes. Learning computer coding? You bet. Who knew that playing simple games on the playground is also computer coding?
“There are a couple different things that we can do with our pre-readers and some of it is what we call unplugged coding,” explained Timothy Cone, Georgia Tech-Savannah s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) program director.