http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope Handmade in Athens, GA for over 20 years. en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:37:29 -0700 Hand Coding Rules! web@flagpole.com (Ian Rickert) http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-17Mar10 An update on the efforts to renovate the Georgia Theatre, and Paul Broun, Jr.'s Krazy Korner. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-17Mar10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-10Mar10 The Dope on university budget cuts, parking, water and charity auctions. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-10Mar10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-3Mar10 A final word… we hope… for now… on feral cats. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-3Mar10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-24Feb10 Everybody run—feral cats are on the loose again! As a local issue, that is. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-24Feb10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-17Feb10 An expanded, online-only version of John Huie's reflections on the Elbert Co. incinerator controversy. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-17Feb10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-10Feb10 The ongoing saga of Jittery Joe's Roaster, and Paul Broun, Jr.'s Korner gets really Krazy! Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-10Feb10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-3Feb10 The ACC Overview Commission gets rolling, and the Clarke County Democrats get roasting. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-3Feb10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-27Jan10 Hope for public art downtown, and the return of Paul Broun, Jr.'s Krazy Korner. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-27Jan10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-20Jan10 Mike Hamby announces he might run for mayor, Jared Bailey announces for David Lynn's Commission seat, and Morris News Services announces its parent company's bankruptcy filing. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-20Jan10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-13Jan10 A big week in the news for Commissioner Doug Lowry. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-13Jan10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-6Jan10 Remembering Vic Chesnutt with purpose, and a shiny new parking meters story. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-6Jan10 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-16Dec09 A new farmers' market, two Dopes on water and the return of Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner! Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-16Dec09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-9Dec09 Comments from Kelly Girtz on the future of the diversion center and Amy Kissane on the demolition delay ordinance. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-9Dec09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-2Dec09 ACC commissioners deliberate on a diversion center and sidewalks, and Paul Broun, Jr. is held up for more ridicule. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-2Dec09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-25Nov09 The Dope ruminates on public art downtown, fake money, and pink lemonade. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-25Nov09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-18Nov09 Screwing around with a water crisis, City Hall streetscape revisions, and a big, boarded-up house. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-18Nov09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-11Nov09 The new Dope picks up with more hyperventilating on Paul Broun, Jr. and parking meters. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-11Nov09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-4Nov09 And so the City Dope torch passes from one news nerd to the next. Meanwhile, one last column on water… Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-4Nov09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-28Oct09 Commissioners are set to approve the new downtown parking deck Tuesday, Nov. 3. It’ll be big, for sure. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-28Oct09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-21Oct09 Maybe if they make the Georgia Theatre bigger, the new downtown parking deck won’t look so huge? Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-21Oct09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-14Oct09 With budgets tight, why not turn the old Lumpkin Street frats into cash cow Halloween haunted houses? Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-14Oct09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-7Oct09 Even the Humane Society is after Paul “Polar Bear Killer” Broun now! Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-7Oct09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-30Sep09 News at Morris, more thoughts on SPLOST bucks, a new PAC in town and the Tree That Owns Itself, too. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-30Sep09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-23Sep09 Update: Paul Broun, Jr. to host a town hall in Athens on Monday, Sept. 28! Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-23Sep09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-16Sep09 150,000 Paul Broun constituents are uninsured, say local health care activists. (Like Broun cares.) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-16Sep09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-9Sep09 As we deplore Paul Broun, Jr.’s phobia of Athens-Clarke County, let us turn to another week… Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-9Sep09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-2Sep09 We may not know who stole the Daily Co-op’s carrot sign, but we sure know school’s back in session…. Also: a Paul Broun town hall! Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-2Sep09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-26Aug09 Which pols will show at Saturday’s health care protest rally in Watkinsville? Also, Roy Barnes visits town… Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-26Aug09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-19Aug09 At press time, still rooting for a Broun town hall here in Athens… Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-19Aug09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-12Aug09 SPLOST talk warms up, Broun skips Athens, furloughs get real, grad student insurance gets worse… and more news. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-12Aug09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-5Aug09 With the teachers on furlough, the cops fill in with a basketball clinic: perfect! Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-5Aug09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-29Jul09 Baseball may send good omens for health care reform, but Georgia football will never end the water wars. Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-29Jul09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-22Jul09 Will NBAF be built anywhere, in the end? One wonders nowadays… Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-22Jul09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-15Jul09 Looks like local boy Brian Kemp means business in his run for Secretary of State. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-15Jul09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-8Jul09 Rep. Paul Broun, Jr.—from the well—on global warming: “It is a hoax. There is no scientific consensus.” Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-8Jul09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-1Jul09 Oak Grove’s strip mall nears approval, downtown parking rates ’n fines go up July 1, cat news and more. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope-1Jul09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.24Jun09 Saving the Theatre, helping the Farmers’ Market, dodging the interest payment (again) and hoping for real change in health insurance. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.24Jun09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.17Jun09 Snake news, the local food awards, Safe Routes Athens spurned, District 7 gossip, the Classic Center on steroids and more. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.17Jun09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.10Jun09 Oak Grove updates, Morris Publishing news, the new downtown deck and more. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.10Jun09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.3Jun09 With the ACC budget now passed, will this summer have its own version of the streetlight fiasco? Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.3Jun09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.27May09 A strip-mall shopping center on Jefferson Road just inside the county line? Commissioners vote June 2. Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.27May09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.20May09 Dr. No—er, Dr. Paul Broun, Jr.—continues to say nothing but “no” to anything the President proposes. Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.20May09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.13May09 Okay, so what about the bus fares - which way will the Commish go? More on the ACC budget, too. Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.13May09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.6May09 Well, gang, the county budget is out, and it’s more or less the doozy we expected. Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.6May09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.29Apr09 Corridor studies, local stimulus lobbying (good things, both), bio-lab reverberations (!) and more. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:05:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.29Apr09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.22Apr09 You might already bike to work everyday, but you should definitely do so this Friday with everybody else. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.22Apr09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.15Apr09 It’s another manic April in Athens - what else do you need to know? Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.15Apr09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.8Apr09 So, is the drought over? How about the legislative session, at least? Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.8Apr09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.1Apr09 Keeping tabs on the NORML case, a new office building proposed on Milledge Avenue… and the changing of the seasons, too. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.1Apr09 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.25Mar09 City Hall sundries, UGA’s hardball with would-be pot-legalizers, a reckoning for Morris Communications, reflections on Ralph Hudgens, the garden at the White House and more. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://flagpole.com/Weekly/CityDope/CityDope.25Mar09