Voting bar code mismatch
By Bruce Menke Last week in Northampton County, PA, there was a problem with touchscreen ballots that has relevance to Georgia elections....
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Classic City News
- Nov 16
- 3 min
The Benefits of Allowing Short-Term Rentals in Athens
By Michelle McQuien I was born and raised in Athens, spending most of my childhood here, until my father’s job took our family to another...
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Classic City News
- Nov 12
- 1 min
Letters: Artificial Intelligence regulation must be national priority
President Biden has issued an executive order requiring transparency from developers of the most powerful AI systems. He has taken an...
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Classic City News
- Oct 20
- 1 min
Climate Change-Danger and Opportunity?
Dear Editor, The word for crisis in Japanese has two characters. The first means “dangerous". The second means "opportunity". Can they...
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Classic City News
- Oct 10
- 1 min
America needs more millionaires, fewer billionaires
Some people look and things as they are and ask, why? I look at things that never were and ask, why not? ~ Robert F. Kennedy By James...
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Classic City News
- Oct 3
- 9 min
Homelessness in Athens: Doing Something is Better Than Nothing
By Michael H. McLendon On Tuesday night 3 October the majority of the commissioners are poised to enact progressive affordable housing...
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Classic City News
- Oct 2
- 3 min
Blindly Supporting Gonzalez Makes Us No Better Than Trumpers
By Ian Slack I voted for Deborah Gonzalez in 2020 despite, what I thought at the time, legitimate concerns about her qualifications. I...
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Classic City News
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Attacks on Athens DA Gonzalez are politically motivated
By Robert Covi All three branches of Georgia’s government have republican majorities and everyone knows how difficult it is for the...
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Classic City News
- Jun 21
- 1 min
An open letter to the Clarke County School Board Elected Members.
The State mandates that if a taxing authority such as the Clarke County School District is going to increase taxes they must have three...
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Classic City News
- Jun 4
- 3 min
Spanish Ballots
By Mara Zuniga At the first Athens-Clarke County budget hearing, I suggested to the local government to redirect funding for the Board of...
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Classic City News
- May 19
- 1 min
The Republicans Deadly Attack on the American Economy
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell readily acknowledge that their failure to raise the debt...
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Classic City News
- May 12
- 1 min
Biggest U.S. economic threat: failure to pay debt
There is nothing more important to our economic well being then the uninterrupted history of our nation paying its debts. Our entire...
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Classic City News
- May 5
- 1 min
Mike Collins: Hold town hall meeting in my community
As residents of Georgia's 10th Congressional District, my wife and I are asking you to hold free, accessible, in-person town halls with...
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Classic City News
- Apr 24
- 1 min
Conducting business behind closed doors
By Peggy Perkins House Republicans, after months of pledging to devolve power to legislative committees conducting business out in the...
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Classic City News
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Mind-Body Medicine, An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By James P. Hilton Ignore that elephant sitting over there. Just look over here at this flashy new movie starring handsome heartthrob...
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Classic City News
- Apr 7
- 2 min
Dropping A Dime On The Activist
By Albert DeSimone Athens is the penultimate city of left-wing activism, perhaps only losing the last most left position to San...
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Classic City News
- Apr 7
- 4 min
Athenians, Awaken!
By Jason E. Elder (laughter from Commissioner Hamby) "... but, but if there's somebody who wants to speak to it since it's like brand new...
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Classic City News
- Apr 6
- 3 min
A win for Athens-Clarke County firefighters
By Mara Zuniga City Hall was full of red shirts on April 4, 2023. Red was meant to demonstrate support for the Professional Firefighters...
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Classic City News
- Apr 5
- 5 min
DA Gonzalez and Shakespeare
By Michael H. McLendon In following the tale of DA Gonzalez, I have often wondered if she remembers reading Shakespeare and the phrase...
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Classic City News
- Mar 28
- 2 min
A case study of ignoring the elephant in the room
Question: What brand of journalism fails to ask the the most basic, elementary questions like who, what, where, when, how, and why?...
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