Two Old Farts Traveling: “Glamping to the fullest"
By Johnnie W. Lewis My Better Half, Jimmy Lewis, and I have traded our house payment for a motor home payment and are traveling full-time...
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Apr 13, 20203 min
Galis: Come November, We Should All Be Single-issue Voters
By Leon Galis Last month, which seems like last year now, I wrote a school-marmy piece about Bernie Sanders’ socialism. That’s what I...
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Apr 9, 20204 min
To Hellfair and back: Hope against hope
By Shane Sims The only thing worse than losing hope is being filled with false hope. Unlike optimism, false hope is to be filled with...
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Apr 5, 20203 min
Never Met a Stranger: Memory amid the formulae
By T.W. Burger I remember Nell Payne, who tried valiantly to teach me Algebra in the 9th grade, in what we then called Junior High in...
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Mar 29, 20204 min
To Hellfair and Back: Prisons will be killing fields for the coronavirus
By Shane Sims Prisons are going to be killing grounds for the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. Although I had previously thought that, the...
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Mar 24, 20202 min
Never Met a Stranger: Nearly 70
By T.W. Burger Long ago, I figured I’d be dead by now. Nearly was, a few times. The woods are the same; Different orders of trees, Slight...
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Mar 21, 20203 min
Mokah Speaks: Maintaining Community Through COVID-19
By Mokah Jasmine Johnson About six to seven years ago, I experienced a period of homeless. My family was in a downward spiral. After...
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Mar 19, 20204 min
The Classic City Pétanque Club
By Rob Trevena “Le Boule Dawgs’, a group of faculty and students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia formed the...
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Mar 17, 20201 min
Athens area group presents Stacey Abrams with quilt
The Sowing Truth and Justice Collective presented a quilt it made to Stacey Abrams, former Democratic candidate for Georgia governor in...
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Mar 3, 20202 min
Never Met a Stranger: The new vacuum
By T.W. Burger The new vacuum cleaner winging its way to my house is a far cry from the monsters I and my contemporaries grew up with....
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Feb 21, 20204 min
To Hellfair and Back: Escaping from prison through books
By Shane Sims Prison is a dark reality that will eventually, and periodically, pull you towards an abyss of despair. Even the most...
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Feb 21, 20203 min
Democratic Party super delegates are a feature, not a bug
By Leon Galis Blame Facebook for this post. Got into an online conversation with a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter who had a jaundiced...
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Feb 14, 20204 min
Never Met a Stranger: Goodbye, Shirley
By T.W. Burger As we say down here in the South, it’s all over but the shouting. A couple of days ago I mailed out the checks, splitting...
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Feb 9, 20202 min
Galis: Why Bernie Sanders is still getting the side-eye
I’ve earned a dope slap. It took me way longer than it should have but it finally dawned on me that Bernie Sanders may have wanted Donald...
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Feb 2, 20203 min
Mokah Speaks: Protecting the vote and the need for paper ballot backups in 2020
By Mokah-Jasmine Johnson In 2018, Georgia’s electoral process was thrust into the national spotlight for its suppression of minority...
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Feb 2, 20205 min
Oconee Joe: The Oconee Wars, Samuel Dale
My newest article is a bit different in the way I present the history of the Oconee River. It is set during the contentious period known...
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Jan 14, 20204 min
Why I am running for Clarke County sheriff
My name is John Q. Williams, and I’m a Sergeant with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. I’ve been an Athens resident for nearly...
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Jan 9, 20203 min
To Hellfair and Back: Nothing changes on New Year's Day
By Shane Sims Holidays are an almost essential part of American culture. They give us something to celebrate; a reason to be happy. We...
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Dec 18, 20194 min
Never Met a Stranger: Staring down the 'gator
By T.W. Burger Time, we tend to forget, is not a thing of calendars and watches. It is a thing in and of itself, shapeless, a basket of...
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Dec 17, 20198 min
Are the Privatizers Coming for Clarke County Schools?
By Leon Galis Recently, somebody asked on social media, where everything important happens, how the national political climate is...
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