Trump and the statute of limitations
By Albert DeSimone I am having difficulty understanding the Trump hush money trial and the statute of limitations. A few basics. The...
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Classic City News
- 2 days ago
- 4 min
Open letter to Athens-Clarke County Board of Commissioners re: apartment complex living conditions
From: Michael McLendon < mhm@ix.netcom.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 9:38 AM To: Carol Myers < carol.myers@accgov.com >;...
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Classic City News
- 4 days ago
- 5 min
Something to sip on: facts about tea
Besides water, no beverage is consumed by more individuals across the globe than tea. For millennia, this beloved drink has been favored...
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Classic City News
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
Shark teeth and weasels
By T. W. Burger Dan Stoneburner and I walked along the two tracks of what passed for a road on that barrier island off the coast of...
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Classic City News
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Turn Apalachee anger into action
It’s been a month since the shooting at Apalachee High School. What emotions have you felt since then? Perhaps, like me, you have gone...
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Classic City News
- Sep 25
- 3 min
Is heading off Georgia’s election train wreck on Brad Raffensperger?
By Leon Galis The state of Georgia’s Election Board, which nobody outside the state and hardly anybody in it had ever heard of before...
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Classic City News
- Sep 22
- 2 min
A closer look at Trump’s hush money case
By Albert DeSimone I suspect most people know of former president Trump’s conviction, but I wonder how many know the true nature of the...
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Classic City News
- Sep 22
- 4 min
Never met a stranger: 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
- Sep 19
- 4 min
Athens mayor and commission squandering taxpayer money with out-of-state retreat
By Michael H. McLendon Today when Athenians are pinching pennies to pay for groceries and their electric bills, our mayor and...
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Classic City News
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Sometimes we need to look into the trees to see the forest…..
By Richard Burt In the day to day of our busy lives, there are often too many issues and too many immediate challenges to see the bigger...
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Classic City News
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Why don’t legislators want to protect our kids?
JD Vance says gunning down children with AK-style weapons is, “just a fact of life”. Governor Kemp says, “Today is not the day for...
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Classic City News
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Common sense on gun violence
The terror of a school shooting blanketed Barrow County last week. Four dead, nine wounded, a 14-year old arrested, teenagers...
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Classic City News
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Enough with the platitudes on guns
Enough already with thoughts and prayers and platitudes. Clearly, they are not enough, or we wouldn’t have 2 students and 2 teachers...
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Classic City News
- Sep 7
- 3 min
The Cellist of Sarajevo
By T.W. Burger We hear a lot about heroes in these days of endless wars. I’m afraid that we’ve had so much war in recent years that we...
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Classic City News
- Aug 31
- 2 min
Kin of military hero appalled by Trump’s constant disrespect
By Regina A. Smith My uncle left his leg, the better part of his mental health for the rest of his life, and what was left of his best...
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Classic City News
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Every vote counts
By Robert B, Covi Reports from ethics watchdog groups have called attention to state election officials who have refused to certify...
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Classic City News
- Aug 22
- 4 min
Gun violence in Athens
By T.W. Burger One of the dangers of becoming a superannuated human being, i.e., an old guy, is that one finds oneself becoming...
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Classic City News
- Aug 18
- 5 min
Confessions of a classical liberal
By Albert DeSimone Here stands the classical liberal, or some would say libertarian, but completely distinct from today’s social liberal....
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Classic City News
- Aug 17
- 1 min
Tim Walz is good people
f you don’t know much about Tim Walz, go find out. Christians will quickly find someone to identify with. He’s “good people”. He’s the...
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Classic City News
- Aug 17
- 15 min
Faith, science and the imponderable
By T.W. Burger I had this thought long ago that I needed to figure out what I believed. Often in conversation or writing, I would find...
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