CLASSIC CITY NEWS

"We set our sights on the embarrassing target of mediocrity. I guess that means about halfway. And that raises a question. Are we will...

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." Frederick ...

“People say, what is the sense of this small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A p...

By Shane Sims Maya Angelou once said, “ I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people...

By Pat Priest Many people want tough legal responses for others but bountiful mercy for themselves and their teenaged children when they ...

PROLOGUE: The grey sky above, at long last, quit raining as you paddle into downtown on a muddy North Oconee River. You flex your frozen ...

By Johnnie W. Lewis We’re done! This is the end, or almost the end, of our travels for 2020. Thank Goodness!! Miss Pate, my sixth grade...

By Shane Sims No matter what side of the political aisle you may be on, I believe that the one thing that most, if not all, people will a...

By Pat Priest One part of the book Alice in Wonderland keeps coming back to me. It’s where the Mock Turtle is boasting to Alice about wha...

By Evander Baker Weird title, right? Seems counterintuitive. I’ve been giving a lot of thought to third-party voting for the presidentia...

By Leon Galis U. S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett took a lot of incoming during her confirmation hearing for declining to say h...

By Leon Galis Not even in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I’d be grateful for the Federalist Society, the organization of conserv...

By T.W. Burger Remember the 1987 film “RoboCop,” starring Peter Weller? The main character was a regular cop in the not-too-distant futur...

By Evander Baker First off, I would like to remind that most face coverings do not protect the wearer from the novel coronavirus. I am s...

By Shane Sims A little more than a year ago, I received an email from a Mr. Joe Johnson, whom, I would learn, is the publisher of Classic...

By Evander Baker Here’s a riddle: How is it that many Americans feel like their country is being led by one of the best Presidents ever, ...

By T.W. Burger I never formally studied any of those Far Eastern forms of meditation. I mean, how long can anyone stare at a doggone cand...

By Leon Galis Since migrating into the mainstream from the sketchier neighborhoods of the internet, the QAnon conspiracy theory has achie...

By T.W. Burger When I was still new at being a newspaper reporter, I spent time every spring writing a Memorial Day column in tribute to ...

By John Dayton, J.D., Ed. D. Equality is a founding American principle. The nation began with these words in our Declaration of Independ...