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7 hours ago5 min read
Time for DOGE Athens
By Michael H. McLendon Follow-the-Money is a shorthandphrase for tracking financial transactions to ferret out wasteful spending and to...
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Classic City News
Feb 25 min read
A story of the sky
By Erik Hogan It is still dark as I drive. Another early Sunday morning, waiting for that first cup of coffee to jump start my brain stem...
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Classic City News
Jan 284 min read
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By T.W. Burger "Almost exactly 12 hours after he surrendered to police after a three hour standoff, Douglas Dubs found himself sentenced...
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Classic City News
Jan 282 min read
Are we “woke” or dozing?
By Albert DeSimone The pre-appropriated term “woke” is a word that goes back to the 1930s. It was a term used by African Americans to...
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Classic City News
Jan 264 min read
Ice Portraits
By Erik Hogan I was on a quest to see ice. These were the successive days of bitter cold in early January, before the first snow event....
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Classic City News
Jan 261 min read
Full Moon over City Hall
These images of the moon overAthens City Hall were recently captured by local photographer Erik Hogan.
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Classic City News
Jan 223 min read
Gummied!
By T.W. Burger As often happens, my clever ploy to get to sleep faster and more soundly at night didn’t quite work out. Clever ploys do...
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Classic City News
Jan 194 min read
January austerity
It is not good to be entirely without experience of cold and heat, but one ought in some degree to feel the cold in winter and likewise...
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Classic City News
Jan 118 min read
Hunting memories in rural Georgia
By Erik Hogan It’s summertime in Georgia in the mid 1980’s. The sun beats down onto the roof of our solid green Buick Century station...
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Classic City News
Jan 34 min read
Now I lay me down to howl
By T.W. Burger The news seems suddenly full of animals. No, not that guy in what we used to call Yugoslavia. I mean the ones naturewriter...
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Classic City News
Dec 23, 20243 min read
Scents of Christmas past
By T.W. Burger John Messina was always there for a few years, looming elegantly, joyously over Nana’s giant holiday dinners. As a kid, I...
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Classic City News
Dec 22, 20245 min read
Field notes: a holiday tradition
By Erik Hogan This is the Christmas edition of Field Notes . We are taking a break from nature, landscapes, backpacking, and adventure to...
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Classic City News
Dec 14, 20246 min read
Waffle House? My family’s got it covered, and scattered
This 2015 blog entry is republished with Bill’s permission By Bill King My friend Ligaya Figueras, the food and dining editor of The...
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Classic City News
Dec 11, 20244 min read
The danger of chasing tail
By T. W. Burger Whenever I watch world leaders contemplating the use of power, I always want to tell them about my old tomcat. Tom could...
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Classic City News
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Requiem for Bernie
By T.W. Burger I didn't try to count the number of people in the church. It was a good-sized crowd. I wasn't there on assignment, but on...
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Classic City News
Nov 21, 20244 min read
At home on the cosmic camper
By T.W. Burger It had been a long walk in the muck, on legs that had spent too much time tucked under a computer table. And I will...
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Classic City News
Nov 17, 20243 min read
Time And a River
By Erik Hogan Time is such a strange concept. It is measured so very precisely and consistently. At one end of the spectrum we tally eons...
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Classic City News
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Thoughts on scratch'n sniff news
By T.W. Burger It is often true that we do not take full advantage of the technologies available to us. Nowhere is this more true than in...
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Classic City News
Nov 11, 20244 min read
A dose of culture at Joe's place
By T.W. Burger I would have loved to meet Joe Delaney. Finding Joe’s place was dumb luck, really. Most of my attention had been given to...
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Classic City News
Nov 9, 20243 min read
Nobody and the graveyard raid
By T.W. Burger It is not a very large cemetery, tucked away between the back end of a large brick church and a row of some houses that...
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