Federal legislation bears fruit
Good news! A whole lot of highly advanced chip manufacturing will soon happen in the U.S. Who knows maybe Georgia will be a future site....
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Classic City News
- Dec 22, 2022
- 4 min
It ain’t necessarily so
By Dennis Rice There has always been in public schools the fight over what to teach, how to teach it, and at what age - especially,...
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Classic City News
- Dec 22, 2022
- 3 min
Never Met a Stranger: Critters of the Deep South
By T.W. Burger In all the years that I have lived outside of the South, I have remained amused by what the natives of the North like to...
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Classic City News
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
MR. TRUMP, I VOTED FOR YOU TWICE -BUT YOU JUST CROSSED MY LINE IN THE SAND
By James P. Hilton Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewell. ~ Patrick Henry The...
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Classic City News
- Nov 24, 2022
- 2 min
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Classic City News
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
No injuries, but up to 30 people displaced by apartment building fire in West Athens
By Joe Johnson At 6:27 p.m. Friday. Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Services received an alarm for a structure fire in at...
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Classic City News
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
Athens-Clarke County Fire & Emergency Services Receives Donation of Pet Oxygen Masks
By Joe Johnson Each year, it’s estimated more than 40,000 pets die in fires, most succumbing to smoke inhalation. The reality in most...
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Classic City News
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
One Man's Opinion: Vince Dooley was more than a great coach
By Bill Crane Others have written and more will write, detailed tributes to Coach Vince Joseph Dooley (age 90) as the winningest coach in...
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Classic City News
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Voting Day
A local radio program noted that Election Day itself is losing its identity with the advent and high participation of early voting. That...
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Classic City News
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
Ballot referendum would help low-income Athenians keep their homes
As a homeowner in Athens’ West Broad neighborhood and a member of the Advisory Board, we advocated to our state representatives for help...
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Classic City News
- Oct 15, 2022
- 1 min
Wealth doesn’t trickle down, it remains at the top
Since the 1980s, Republicans have argued for cutting public programs because they cost too much money, such as Social Security, Medicare....
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Classic City News
- Oct 14, 2022
- 1 min
Voting time
Republicans, having learned that voter roll growth and high voter turnout always push their candidates lower down the rungs of power’s...
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Classic City News
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
Man’s remains found in Athens sewage pipe
By Joe Johnson At about 11;15 a.m. Friday, Athens-Clarke County police responded to a report of a deceased person who was located in a...
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Classic City News
- Sep 26, 2022
- 2 min
My body, my freedom
I fear that many Americans believe the decision (Roe v. Wade) passed 50 years ago and recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court,...
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Classic City News
- Sep 7, 2022
- 1 min
Voting time
Georgia has seen waves of new voting restrictions passed by a party that has learned that escalation of voter rolls shunts its candidates...
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Classic City News
- Aug 22, 2022
- 5 min
Clarke County School District Goes Rogue
By Michael H. McLendon Two actions of the CCSD School Board this week do not bode well for the future of our schools and the...
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Classic City News
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
Article not transparent
By Mara Zuniga Blake Aued, an Athens journalist, once again has written an article that takes some truth, and some misinformation to try...
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Classic City News
- Aug 18, 2022
- 2 min
Community must hear from Hooker prior to his being confirmed as Clarke schools superintendent
Athens NAACP is calling on the Clarke County School Board to hold a community meeting with the“sole finalist“ for school superintendent...
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Classic City News
- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
Republican candidates in Georgia deaf to majority of citizens in favor of women's right to abortion
Georgia Republican candidates for state and federal office are pledging to ban abortion even in cases of rape, incest or to save the life...
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Classic City News
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
Gun violence: Americans being slaughtered as they go about daily business
Many of our elected officials- governors, state legislators, members of Congress-have failed to act to stop the murder of our children in...
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