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Open letter to President Trump
Dear Mr President. I voted for you -twice. In general I think you and your entire cabinet team are doing a positively fantastic job cleaning up the Biden mess and rooting out the outrageous excesses of the far left. But assassination of suspected drug traffickers at sea is going too far. Law abiding American Citizens loath drug traffickers too. But here’s the thing Mr President. If we allow drug traffickers to be summarily executed without a trial then somewhere down the

Classic City News
Nov 72 min read


Advantage Behavioral workplace assault and wrongful removal
My name is Jonathan Gonzalez, and I served as the Security Site Supervisor at the Crisis Center for Advantage Behavioral in Athens, GA. I am writing to report a serious incident involving an on-duty assault and what I believe to be wrongful and retaliatory removal from my position afterward. On Thursday, October 23, at approximately 11:45 AM, while stationed in the Crisis Services Unit (CSU), I was preparing to escort patients outside for scheduled outdoor time. During this p

Classic City News
Nov 22 min read


Harm reduction needed in fight against addiction
Dear Classic City News Editor: I am a local social worker and harm reduction advocate in the Athens community, and I am writing in response to the recent article about a fentanyl death in a north Athens encampment. I appreciate your publication reporting on the devastating outcomes of some fentanyl use. However, I think it is critical to acknowledge our lack of harm reduction access in the community when reporting on these overdoses. Most are preventable. Many people think

Classic City News
Oct 251 min read


Trump simply doesn’t care
President trump is closely associated with the phrase: Make America Great Again (MAGA). He even has a MAGA swag boutique in the White...

Classic City News
Oct 91 min read


Georgia’s healthcare crisis is a Republican choice
I love living in Jackson County. My mother’s family has called the street I live on home for over a hundred years, and the little...

Classic City News
Oct 64 min read


Georgia’s renewable energy investment bonanza
We know greenhouse gases (carbon emissions) drive extreme storms, floods and fires and action is needed to move to non-polluting...

Classic City News
Oct 61 min read


ICE raid on Chicago apartment building
Its 1am. Your family is fast asleep. Suddenly chaos erupts – masked agents break down your door, grab your kids and force everyone...

Classic City News
Oct 61 min read


Stop Trump’s AI death panels for Medicare
President Trump promised to protect Medicare. That’s not what his regime is doing. They launched a pilot project in 6 states (Arizona,...

Classic City News
Sep 111 min read


Troubled by Guard deployment in Georgia
This week, I was deeply troubled to read that Governor Kemp is deploying 75 Georgia National Guard members to assist ICE operations...

Classic City News
Aug 281 min read


Is seeing believing?
We all know the old saw “seeing is believing”, that the evidence of our eyes and ears is the best guide to reality. But do we follow it?...

Classic City News
Aug 281 min read


Be smart about kids and gun safety
In Griffin, GA a 5 year-old child kills themself with a gun they found in the car. In Dekalb County, a 5 year-old child was shot and...

Classic City News
Aug 231 min read


Republicans puts medical debt back on credit reports
Thousands of low-income working class Georgians, already worried about losing their health insurance, now face lower credit scores. The...

Classic City News
Jul 211 min read


What kind of person are you?
We Americans have many names we use to describe ourselves. Which of these is yours? Compassionate —Do you believe that two million...

Classic City News
Jul 142 min read


Democrats, salvage what’s left
It’s time to face the truth, Democrats: You are a socialist party. The only thing left to do is determine the angle of that lean. There...

Classic City News
Jun 302 min read


ICE raids not targeting criminals
Long-time workers who pay taxes and have committed no crimes after coming here illegally are scheduled to get deported by the millions. ...

Classic City News
Jun 221 min read


Ugly consequences of so-called big, beautiful bill
Bottom line, the Big, Beautiful bill before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners and reduces benefits for the poor and middle class....

Classic City News
Jun 211 min read


War no more
The Netanyahu regime has decided that it is in their security interests to attack Iran. With this aggressive move, Netanyahu is underming...

Classic City News
Jun 201 min read


Big but not so beautiful bill
Last week, the Republican-controlled House narrowly passed Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill which includes massive cuts to Medicaid, food...

Classic City News
Jun 182 min read


Congressman Collins disparages federal employees
U.S. Rep. Mike Collins claimed during a kind of phoned-in town hall that “federal employees are lazy and stupid.” (Flagpole News, April...

Classic City News
Jun 131 min read


Unreality TV
I’m an unimaginative writer and have trouble with anything approaching clever. I saw a funny post attacking a politician, the writer...

Classic City News
Jun 91 min read
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