In the Loop
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Breweries Can Sell You Beer to Take Home Again
Craft beer brewers have reached a deal with alcohol wholesalers that will allow breweries to essentially sell beer straight to consumers, according to the AJC.
The Georgia legislature passed a law last year allowing breweries to include beer to go with tours, rather than merely letting them drink free samples on-site. Craft breweries hailed the law as making Georgia more competitive for this growing industry; most other states already allowed breweries to operate pubs and/or sell beer to go.
However, after meeting secretly with the middlemen in our state’s three-tiered distribution system (producers, wholesalers and retailers), the Georgia Department of Revenueadministratively gutted the law, barring breweries from charging different rates for different tours depending on how much beer was included in the package.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Jan. 25
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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It Might Snow in Athens This Weekend
President Snow prepared for the winter weather by stocking up on adult beverages.
Haha, suckers, I already made my bread/milk/whiskey run before posting this, but it might snow on Friday or Saturday.
Clarke and Oconee counties (and points north) are included in a winter weather advisoryissued by the National Weather Service today. The advisory is in effect from 3 p.m. Friday until 7 p.m. Saturday.
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Pay Whatever at the Habitat ReStore This Week
Photo Credit: courtesy of Athens Area Habitat for Humanity
The Athens Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Barber Street is letting customers take any building supplies in the store in exchange for a donation of their choice.
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Hundreds March Against Downtown Discrimination
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
Hip hop promoter Mokah Johnson, rapper Versatyle tha Wildchylde and activist Tim Denson.
Chanting slogans like “shut them down!” several hundred marchers braved freezing weather on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday to protest discriminatory practices at student bars downtown, as well as what they see as a more generally unwelcoming attitude toward African Americans downtown.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Jan. 18
The Whigs.
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 State Reps Don't Like Redistricting Bill
Neither of Oconee County’s two members of the Georgia House of Representatives is willing to support a pair of resolutions prefiled before the current session began on Jan. 11 that would create an independent commission to create Congressional and General Assembly districts in the state.
Oconee County was split into two House districts in a special session of the General Assembly in 2011 to help the dominant Republican Party achieve a super majority. A super majority allows the dominant party to govern without minority support.
Oconee County had made up the majority of the old House 113th District.
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Study: Families Can't Afford to Buy Homes in Athens
Photo Credit: Blake Aued/file
Most of the new construction in Athens is infill housing, like this on Easy Street, that's far out of reach of most families.
Families with children are fleeing Athens to buy homes in surrounding counties because the housing stock here doesn’t meet their needs, according to a study commissioned by Athens-Clarke County in 2014 and released Tuesday.
The study examines “workforce housing”—housing for the 53,000 people in Athens whose households earn between 60 percent and 120 percent of the city’s median income, or about $30,000–$60,000 a year. This category includes a wide variety of blue- and white-collar jobs, such as maids, electricians, police officers, bank tellers, nurses, claims adjusters and graphic designers.
Vaughn Irons, CEO of consultants APD Solutions, who briefed commissioners on the study Tuesday night, described them as “people who get up and go to work every day, but there may be a mismatch between what the private sector provides and what they can afford.”
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