Blog posts by Blake Aued, Editor
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Counterpoint: Athens Is Nothing Like Ferguson
Blog: In the Loop
In May 2013, the Athens-Clarke County Commission, based on Police Chief Jack Lumpkin's recommendation, voted unanimously, bleeding hearts and all, to accept a $240,000 Lenco BearCat (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck) from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
The BearCat joins a cache of equipment and vehicles ACCPD has acquired from DHS over the past decade, including a $218,000 mobile command center and an $80,000 bomb-sniffing dog.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 18
Blog: In the Loop
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
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Columbus Competes with Athens for High-Speed Rail
Blog: In the Loop
Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson and state Rep. Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus) went to Washington yesterday to pitch a $3.9 billion, high speed rail project that would whittle the trip to Atlanta down to an hour, according to the AJC.
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Is Ride-Share Service Uber Coming to Athens?
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: Photo via uber.com
Replace the late-model Mercedes with a 30-year-old Volvo wagon, and this is what Uber in Athens might look like.
No more stumbling back to the house or throwing up in the back of a van! Finally, rich, drunk college students will be able to get home in style.
It's not clear if the controversial ride-sharing service Uber is operating in Athens yet, but the company is at least looking for drivers.
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College Square Closed Through Weekend After Flooding
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
College Square will be closed to traffic for an estimated five days while Athens-Clarke County workers fix the damage from a water main break.
An 80- or 90-year-old 12-inch pipe burst underneath the sidewalk Tuesday evening, flooding the basement of the Subway at the corner of Broad and Clayton streets and a vacant space next door, as well as the nearby sidewalks and streets, according to ACC officials.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 4
Blog: In the Loop
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
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Athens Has the Fourth Busiest Transit System in the U.S.
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: Kelly Hart
Athens-Clarke County has the fourth-busiest transit system in the country, according to an analysis by the data journalism website FivethirtyEight.com of National Transit Database numbers.
ACC averaged 99.5 trips per capita in 2013, meaning the average resident boarded a bus about 100 times last year. That figure is based on ridership numbers ACC and 289 other cities report to the Federal Transit Administration in order to receive grants. FiveThirtyEight divided those numbers by 2012 American Community Survey population estimates.
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Burglar Has Terrible Taste in Liquor
Blog: In the Loop
According to Athens-Clarke County police, someone broke into Firehouse Package on West Broad Street Friday night or Saturday morning and took "two bottles of brandy valued at $30, three bottles of vodka valued at $30, two bottles of E&J brandy valued $30, two bottles of Mr. Boston vodka valued at $30 and two packs of Newport cigarettes valued $12."
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UGA Receiver Michael Bennett Hates 'The Bachelorette,' Wants to Be Paid
Blog: Culture Briefs
The World Cup's over, and the Barves—let's face it—are pretty mediocre. But never fear, sports fans! Football season is right around the corner.
The Bulldogs started fall practice today, but before they did, they opened the Buttsmear doors to the media, even us unsavory alt-weekly types. Here are a few highlights from the press conference.
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The Pulaski Greenway Is Now Open
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: Blake Aued
Athens-Clarke County officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning for the newPulaski Creek Greenway.
The concrete path—funded by $984,308 from SPLOST 2005—connects the Athens Community Council on Aging, on Hoyt Street off College Avenue, and Pulaski Street near the Leathers Building.
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Is Caterpillar in Cahoots with Gov. Nathan Deal?
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: Photo via online.wsj.com
This is a month old, but in light of our recent feature on the progressive group better Georgia and the connection to Athens, it's worth bringing up.
Gov. Nathan Deal has built his campaign around Georgia being ranked the No. 1 state to do business. But Better Georgia implies that Deal is using his political connections—including with Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman, whom Deal gave $44 million in tax breaks to build a plant in Athens—to influence the rankings.
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Website Launched for Cyclists in Athens and Elsewhere
Blog: Culture Briefs
A University of Georgia graduate has launched a new website to help bicycle riders—especially tourists—navigate cities.
Bikabout.com, founded by Megan Ramey, already has maps of bike routes in Boston, where she lives. Friday, the site will add nine other cities: Athens, Madison, WI, Minneapolis, Portland, OR, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Fort Collins, CO and New York City. She is touring those cities over the next six weeks by bus, train, plane and, of course, bike.
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How R.E.M. Registered Millions of Voters
Blog: Homedrone
R.E.M.'s seminal 1991 album Out of Time led to an explosion in young people registering to vote, as Slate writers Whitney Jones and Roman Mars explained Friday.
"[N]o album has had as large an effect on politics in the United States as R.E.M.'s Out of Time," they wrote.
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Killer Mike, Egyptian Lover Play Athens Intensified
Blog: Homedrone
Acclaimed Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and '80s electro pioneer Egyptian Lover will join Cibo Matto as headliners for the Athens Intensified festival this fall, organizer Gordon Lamb announced Thursday.
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You Won't Believe How Much Money Jere Morehead Raised for UGA
Blog: In the Loop
Nice to meet you. Now empty your pockets.
When UGA President Jere Morehead took office last year, he announced a goal of raising $1 billion by 2020. He's an eighth of the way there. From UGA News Service:
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Watch This Parody Video of Congressional Candidate Jody Hice, Hice, Baby
Blog: In the Loop
Last month, we told you about how congressional candidate Jody Hice is Paul Broun 2.0. Hice—who is what would happen if Stephen Colbert was being serious—is seeking the Athens representative's seat after Broun's failed Senate bid.
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Athens Loses Commercial Airline Service
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: seaportair.com
Athens is likely to lose commercial air service at the end of September, after the Federal Aviation Administration pulls a $1.6 million annual subsidy, the Athens-Clarke County government announced today.
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CDC Accidentally Sends Deadly Flu Virus to Athens
Blog: In the Loop
Photo credit: European Commission.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were supposed to send a relatively mild form of avian flu to the Southeastern Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens for study.
Instead, in an incident officials disclosed Friday, what the CDC actually shipped was an H9N2 sample contaminated with the far more dangerous H5N1 virus, which has killed 375 people since 2002.
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Is Republican Mike Collins Really Wooing Democrats?
Blog: In the Loop
Much has been made lately of Republican 10th Congressional District candidate Mike Collins' purported effort to win Democratic votes in the July 22 runoff with Jody Hice. Tim Bryant addressed it on his 1340 AM radio show last week, and Erick Erickson of the influential conservative blog redstate.com has attacked Collins for it as well.
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In the Loop | August 18, 2014 4:16pm
Counterpoint: Athens Is Nothing Like Ferguson
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In the Loop | August 18, 2014 12:28pm
Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 18
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In the Loop | August 14, 2014 11:46am
Columbus Competes with Athens for High-Speed Rail
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In the Loop | August 13, 2014 12:54pm
Is Ride-Share Service Uber Coming to Athens?
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In the Loop | August 6, 2014 4:22pm
College Square Closed Through Weekend After Flooding
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In the Loop | August 4, 2014 3:57pm
Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 4
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In the Loop | August 4, 2014 11:20am
Athens Has the Fourth Busiest Transit System in the U.S.
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In the Loop | August 3, 2014 4:08pm
Burglar Has Terrible Taste in Liquor
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Culture Briefs | August 1, 2014 3:11pm
UGA Receiver Michael Bennett Hates 'The Bachelorette,' Wants to Be Paid
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In the Loop | August 1, 2014 11:10am
The Pulaski Greenway Is Now Open
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In the Loop | July 31, 2014 11:10am
Is Caterpillar in Cahoots with Gov. Nathan Deal?
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Culture Briefs | July 30, 2014 4:56pm
Website Launched for Cyclists in Athens and Elsewhere
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Homedrone | July 28, 2014 10:44am
How R.E.M. Registered Millions of Voters
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Homedrone | July 18, 2014 11:46am
Killer Mike, Egyptian Lover Play Athens Intensified
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In the Loop | July 17, 2014 1:40pm
You Won't Believe How Much Money Jere Morehead Raised for UGA
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In the Loop | July 17, 2014 12:29pm
Watch This Parody Video of Congressional Candidate Jody Hice, Hice, Baby
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In the Loop | July 15, 2014 2:48pm
Athens Loses Commercial Airline Service
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In the Loop | July 14, 2014 3:46pm
Paul Broun Endorses Jody Hice for Congress
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In the Loop | July 14, 2014 2:22pm
CDC Accidentally Sends Deadly Flu Virus to Athens
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In the Loop | July 14, 2014 10:59am
Is Republican Mike Collins Really Wooing Democrats?