CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Peggy Perkins Over the last 3 years, a tight labor market has undone an estimated 38% of wage inequality between poor and wealthy...

By Shelbey Diamond-Alexander What has President Biden done to secure our southern border?  On his first day of office, he called on...

Bruce Menke on Dec. 12 filled out this contact form on the website of Mike Collins, Republican U.S. Representative from Georgia: Mike, By...

By Bruce Menke By denying the urgently needed assistance to the Ukraine, several Georgia members of Congress are placing at risk the very...

This is the view that Classic City News photographer Mandy King had this morning as she looked eastward from South Thomas Street

By Joe Johnson Forty-four years ago today me and Mary Petretti were driving to work at the GM plant in Tarrytown when we realized that...

By Bruce Menke Last week in Northampton County, PA, there was a problem with touchscreen ballots that has relevance to Georgia elections....

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...

President Biden has issued an executive order requiring transparency from  developers of the most powerful AI systems. He has taken an...

Dear Editor, The word for crisis in Japanese has two characters. The first means “dangerous". The second means "opportunity". Can they...

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...

By Michael H. McLendon On Tuesday night 3 October the majority of the commissioners are poised to enact progressive affordable housing...

By Ian Slack I voted for Deborah Gonzalez in 2020 despite, what I thought at the time, legitimate concerns about her qualifications. I...

By Robert Covi All three branches of Georgia’s government have republican majorities and everyone knows how difficult it is for the...

The State mandates that if a taxing authority such as the Clarke County School District is going to increase taxes they must have three...

By Mara Zuniga At the first Athens-Clarke County budget hearing, I suggested to the local government to redirect funding for the Board of...

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell readily acknowledge that their failure to raise the debt...

There is nothing more important to our economic well being then the uninterrupted history of our nation paying its debts. Our entire...

As residents of Georgia's 10th Congressional District, my wife and I are asking you to hold free, accessible, in-person town halls with...

By Peggy Perkins House Republicans, after months of pledging to devolve power to legislative committees conducting business out in the...