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Your Athens-Centric Legislative Wrap-Up
How Local Lawmakers Voted on the Major Issues
Clip and save for election time!
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The New Way to Play
Athens’ “WOW” Park (Now with Dragon!) Goes Cutting-Edge
…and it’s a far cry from the jungle gym of yesteryear.
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Cigarette litter, a new farmers’ market, crime and punishment… and more!
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Athens News And Views
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Block Grant Maneuverings Continue After Commission Vote
One story that’s not played out just yet.
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Lane Changes for Cedar Shoals Drive and Hawthorne?
North Avenue, on the other hand, is probably getting left alone.
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Commission Powwows with Legislators, Post-Session
Athens-area state legislators caught up with ACC Commissioners last week. At least they got something done on the dogfighting issue. Taxes, water, education… maybe next year.
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Catching Up on Cable TV Regs
Altered by the ’07 Legislature
A new state law passed in the 2007 legislative session changed the county’s relationship to cable-provider Charter. So far, though, things are relatively okay.
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Crime in Athens
Innovative Solutions Getting Anywhere?
Drug court, DUI court, mental health court, the Athens Justice Project… can we make a dent in the swelling prison population?
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News & Views You Can Use
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A Dysfunctional Family
What could ever put an end to the squabbling among the state’s political leadership?
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Two Perspectives on the ACC Commission’s Block Grant Vote
(Each One Critical, but for Different Reasons)
A pair of op-eds - from Elton Dodson and Rick Dunn - on the ACC Commission’s Apr. 1 vote to take Community Development Block Grant funds away from the East Athens Development Corporation and the Hancock Community Development Corporation.
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Gene Baur
Tuesday, April 22 @ UGA Student Learning Center
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Valerie Plame Wilson
Wednesday, April 16 @ UGA Chapel
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Presidents and War
“Have you forgotten when the United States entered the Vietnam war and who was president of the United States at the time? It was John F. Kennedy.”
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Fairtax
A response to the op-ed in Flagpole a couple of weeks ago.
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Free Tibet?
“Better not piss off Cathay. They don’t even have to call in their markers, just stop lending and the sub-prime fiasco will look like a Sunday stroll in the park.”
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R.E.M. Fan.1
From Milan!
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R.E.M. Fan.2
From Spain!
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What Happened?
Asking the question: When did Flagpole sell out?
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From You
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