In the Loop
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Clarke Middle School Is Featured in the Washington Post
Wick Pritchard, a VISTA volunteer at Clarke Middle School, wrote an article on the school's agriculture program for today's Washington Post. Here's a taste:
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of May 18
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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Ted Cruz Wants to Repeal All the Things
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (left) after being introduced by Georgia Sen. David Perdue.
Capping off a day filled with red meat for the Republican base, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tossed the audience a few raw ribeyes during his Georgia GOP Convention speech at the Classic Center.
“We should adopt a simple flat tax,” Cruz said. “Let every American fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. And when we do that, we should abolish the IRS.
“Take all 90,000 of them and put them on the border… Imagine if you were swimming the Rio Grande, and the first thing you saw was 90,000 IRS agents. You’d turn around and go home.”
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Pro-Medicaid Protesters Booted from GOP Convention
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
ACC Commissioner Kelly Girtz speaks at a rally for Medicaid expansion outside the Classic Center.
About 100–150 protesters were kicked out of the Classic Center during the Georgia Republican convention this afternoon as they waved signs and chanted slogans in favor of expanding Medicaid to an estimated 650,000 Georgians who lack health insurance.
The rally started outside at about 5 p.m. “There are people dying every day single day just because we’re not expanding Medicaid,” said Tim Denson of Athens for Everyone.
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Marco Rubio: The American Dream Is Dying
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio received what sounded like a stronger response from Republican convention delegates at the Classic Center than New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with a largely autobiographical speech.
Rubio—who, unlike Christie, has announced his presidential candidacy—highlighted his life story as the son of working-class Cuban immigrants. In a speech reminiscent of President Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” lament, he said the American Dream that propelled him to political power is dying. America is weak abroad, and the economy is improving, but not as fast as it should, he said.
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Fire Destroys Abandoned Athens Mill
Photo Credit: Video still via Fox 5.
A 200-year-old abandoned cotton mill off Macon Highway was destroyed in a fire Thursday night.
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Chris Christie: I Can Work With Democrats
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may not officially be running for president—yet—but he laid out a strategy for winning over blue-state voters during a breakfast speech this morning at the Georgia Republican convention at the Classic Center.
Christie was noncommittal when reporters asked him whether he’s running. In his speech, however, he made a case for a more inclusive party that’s more open to compromise.
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Medicaid Advocates Are Protesting at the GOP Convention in Athens
Photo Credit: Michael Rivera
Two progressive groups, Athens for Everyone and Moral Monday Georgia, are organizing a rally for Medicaid expansion at 5 p.m. Friday in front of the Classic Center, where Georgia Republicans will be holding their biannual convention.
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