In the Loop
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The New Crossing-Prince Flags Are Up
Photo Credit: Jessica Pritchard Mangum
Flagpole ad reps Andrea Craven Holt and Anita Aubrey try out the flags. (Spoiler alert: They're still alive.)
At the dangerous Grit and Daily crosswalks on Prince Avenue, Athens-Clarke County installed holders with orange flags this morning for pedestrians to wave as they cross the street, which either will get drivers to stop or enrage them like a red cape waved at a bull. -
Athens-Clarke County Wants You to Wave Flags to Cross Prince Avenue
Photo Credit: U.S. Navy
For a while now, Athens-Clarke County has refused to do much to make Prince Avenue safer to cross in spite of pleas from neighborhood residents and businesses—not move a dangerously located crosswalk, install more visible signals or consider even experimenting with fewer travel lanes, medians and/or pedestrian islands.
Now, perhaps county officials have come up with a solution. Tomorrow, the ACC Traffic Engineering Division will install orange flags and flagholders on either side of the crosswalks at The Grit and Daily Grocery.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Jan. 5
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.
Muuy Biien. What scamps!
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7,000 Baptist Teens Are in Athens
If you notice an inordinate number of young people not drinking, smoking or dancing in the den of iniquity that is downtown Athens, that's because the MOVE Conference is at the Classic Center.
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Nancy Denson's Daughter Might Run for Mayor, Too
State Rep. Margaret Kaiser, the daughter of Athens-Clarke County Mayor Nancy Denson, is considering running for mayor of Atlanta in 2017, according to Creative Loafing.
"I want to consider my options," she told reporter Max Blau. "But if I run, it's going to be because I think I would be a damn good mayor."
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UGA Is Handing Out Football Tickets to Lawmakers Left and Right
An ethics reform law passed in 2012 capped lobbyists' gifts to state lawmakers at $75. But giving hasn't slowed down for the University of Georgia and other public colleges and universities. That's because government employees are no longer required to register as lobbyists.
Since they're not officially lobbyists, the state ethics commission no longer keeps tabs on University System spending. But the Atlanta Journal-Constitution filed open-records requests with the schools themselves. The investigation found that they spent a total of $48,000 on legislators since last November and exceeded the $75 limit 20 times.
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Athens Rep. Regina Quick Questions Need for Transportation Funding
It is unlikely that Rep. Regina Quick (R-Athens) won any friends at the Georgia Department of Transportation last week with the comments she made at the special session with local governmental leaders organized by the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce.
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Commission Chairman Melvin Davis Suggests Allowing Bars in Oconee County
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday agreed to consider over the next three weeks changes in the draft ordinance presented to it that will allow for the sale of liquor by the drink in county restaurants.
Commission Chairman Melvin Davis recommended that the board review the requirement in the draft ordinance that no more than 25 percent of the gross income at the restaurant be from the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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