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Dec 8, 20231 min read
Day Breaks Over East Athens
This is the view that Classic City News photographer Mandy King had this morning as she looked eastward from South Thomas Street
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Classic City News
Dec 8, 20231 min read
December 8, 1980
By Joe Johnson Forty-four years ago today me and Mary Petretti were driving to work at the GM plant in Tarrytown when we realized that...
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Classic City News
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Voting bar code mismatch
By Bruce Menke Last week in Northampton County, PA, there was a problem with touchscreen ballots that has relevance to Georgia elections....
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Classic City News
Nov 16, 20233 min read
The Benefits of Allowing Short-Term Rentals in Athens
By Michelle McQuien I was born and raised in Athens, spending most of my childhood here, until my father’s job took our family to another...
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Classic City News
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Letters: Artificial Intelligence regulation must be national priority
President Biden has issued an executive order requiring transparency from developers of the most powerful AI systems. He has taken an...
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Classic City News
Oct 20, 20231 min read
Climate Change-Danger and Opportunity?
Dear Editor, The word for crisis in Japanese has two characters. The first means “dangerous". The second means "opportunity". Can they...
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Classic City News
Oct 10, 20231 min read
America needs more millionaires, fewer billionaires
Some people look and things as they are and ask, why? I look at things that never were and ask, why not? ~ Robert F. Kennedy By James...
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Classic City News
Oct 3, 20239 min read
Homelessness in Athens: Doing Something is Better Than Nothing
By Michael H. McLendon On Tuesday night 3 October the majority of the commissioners are poised to enact progressive affordable housing...
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Classic City News
Oct 2, 20233 min read
Blindly Supporting Gonzalez Makes Us No Better Than Trumpers
By Ian Slack I voted for Deborah Gonzalez in 2020 despite, what I thought at the time, legitimate concerns about her qualifications. I...
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Classic City News
Jul 15, 20232 min read
Attacks on Athens DA Gonzalez are politically motivated
By Robert Covi All three branches of Georgia’s government have republican majorities and everyone knows how difficult it is for the...
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Classic City News
Jun 21, 20231 min read
An open letter to the Clarke County School Board Elected Members.
The State mandates that if a taxing authority such as the Clarke County School District is going to increase taxes they must have three...
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Classic City News
Jun 4, 20233 min read
Spanish Ballots
By Mara Zuniga At the first Athens-Clarke County budget hearing, I suggested to the local government to redirect funding for the Board of...
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Classic City News
May 19, 20231 min read
The Republicans Deadly Attack on the American Economy
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell readily acknowledge that their failure to raise the debt...
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Classic City News
May 12, 20231 min read
Biggest U.S. economic threat: failure to pay debt
There is nothing more important to our economic well being then the uninterrupted history of our nation paying its debts. Our entire...
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Classic City News
May 5, 20231 min read
Mike Collins: Hold town hall meeting in my community
As residents of Georgia's 10th Congressional District, my wife and I are asking you to hold free, accessible, in-person town halls with...
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Classic City News
Apr 24, 20231 min read
Conducting business behind closed doors
By Peggy Perkins House Republicans, after months of pledging to devolve power to legislative committees conducting business out in the...
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Classic City News
Apr 12, 20232 min read
Mind-Body Medicine, An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By James P. Hilton Ignore that elephant sitting over there. Just look over here at this flashy new movie starring handsome heartthrob...
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Classic City News
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Dropping A Dime On The Activist
By Albert DeSimone Athens is the penultimate city of left-wing activism, perhaps only losing the last most left position to San...
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Classic City News
Apr 7, 20234 min read
Athenians, Awaken!
By Jason E. Elder (laughter from Commissioner Hamby) "... but, but if there's somebody who wants to speak to it since it's like brand new...
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Classic City News
Apr 6, 20233 min read
A win for Athens-Clarke County firefighters
By Mara Zuniga City Hall was full of red shirts on April 4, 2023. Red was meant to demonstrate support for the Professional Firefighters...
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