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Nov 9, 20212 min read
Public Safety Oversight: Did it have to be this controversial?
In recent months, few Commission actions have been as divisive and controversial as the establishment of the Public Safety Oversight...
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Classic City News
Oct 28, 20213 min read
An open letter to Athens For Everyone
Dear A4E: Let me answer publicly to a piece of propaganda that you put out stating that “A local group of conservatives have been...
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Classic City News
Oct 22, 20211 min read
Split in GOP is history repeating itself
Today’s split in the Republican Party mirrors the split in the Democrats in 1860. Their leadership is made up of extremists who consider...
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Classic City News
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Benchmarks needed for fair voting redistricting
The current redistricting efforts will affect our state for the next decade. Our voting districts may change due to the results of the...
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Classic City News
Sep 21, 20214 min read
Never Met a Stranger: Gun violence in Athens
By T.W. Burger One of the dangers of becoming a superannuated human being, i.e., an old guy, is that one finds oneself becoming...
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Classic City News
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Georgia redistricting needs to be transparent
In preparation for Georgia's upcoming redistricting, eleven legislative committee meetings were held around the state over the summer. ...
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Classic City News
Aug 24, 20211 min read
UGA's no-mask policy is insane
The world’s gone mad. Covid deaths are approaching a thousand a day. Georgia’s a hot spot and its hospitals are full. Children are in...
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20212 min read
More people need to get vaccinated to help battle the fourth Covid surge
By Michael Burnett and Dr. Robert Sinyard Athens-Clarke County, like much of the country, is experiencing a fourth surge of COVID-19...
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20214 min read
Facts can be stubborn things
By Steve Middlebrooks The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has been operating roughly 40 sworn officers short of full complement...
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Classic City News
Jul 14, 20212 min read
Destroying our democracy one lie at a time
An effort is underway to undermine confidence in, and to destroy our democracy. First, a president seeking re-election to a second term...
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Classic City News
Jun 22, 20212 min read
The search for the unicorn: a cautionary tale
Once upon a time, a Baron announced he had seen a unicorn! The Baron angrily stated that the unicorn had driven him from his palace (the...
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Classic City News
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Congressional redistricting could result in 'real' representation for Athenians
There is a transportation bill in Congress making available $138 million for Georgia projects upon request by our U.S. representatives....
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Classic City News
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Clarke County cracked and packed
States are required to redraw lines for voting districts, from Congress to county commissioners, every decade to reflect demographic...
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Classic City News
Jun 3, 20211 min read
Sidewalks
Not long after the repeal of Glass-Steagall, when the banks rolled out the Ponzi scheme called “mortgage-based derivatives” in the early...
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Classic City News
May 18, 20212 min read
Environmental impacts
Lots of disputes of late have been about environmental impacts of proposed and ongoing developments. In land use lingo “development”...
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Classic City News
May 17, 20211 min read
Georgia's voting redistricting must be fair and transparent
The Census is done, and the redistricting season that occurs every ten years, has begun. Maps in Georgia are drawn by the party in charge...
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Classic City News
May 11, 20211 min read
The 'Big Lie' weakens democracy
Russia interfered with our 2016 Presidential election. There is evidence to support that statement. Did Donald Trump win because Russia...
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Classic City News
May 3, 20211 min read
President Biden helping average Americans
Since taking office, President Joe Biden has used the government to help ordinary Americans. His administration’s American Rescue Plan...
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Classic City News
Apr 6, 20211 min read
The For the People Act is Definitely “For the People”!
Campaign spending provisions of the For the People Act are overwhelmingly popular across the political spectrum. In private, quite a few...
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Classic City News
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Voter suppression
The cat is out of the bag, the rabbit is out of the box, the possum is sprung from the hav-a-hart, the steel-trapped weasel has finally...
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