In the Loop
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UGA Falls to 15th Best Party School
Oh, how the mighty beer drinkers have fallen.
Princeton Review released its annual top "party schools" report today and coming in at No. 15 is the University of Georgia. In 2010, UGA was at the top of the list.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 4
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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Flagpole Contributor Rachel Bailey Suffers Head Injury, Friends Seek Donations for Medical Bills
Word came in yesterday that Rachel Bailey, a longtime Flagpole contributing writer who has penned many great arts and music features over the last several years, fell and suffered a rather serious head injury Friday, Aug. 2.
Though Rachel is now home and expected to make a full recovery, friends are seeking donations to help offset the costs of her hospital stay.
From the Rachel's Noggin blog:
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Athens Has the Fourth Busiest Transit System in the U.S.
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
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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The Pulaski Greenway Is Now Open
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?
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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In Oconee, Few Speak Out on Liquor by the Drink
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners, anticipating a large turnout tonight for its discussion of a liquor-by-the-drink referendum, moved its meeting from the relatively small Commission Chamber to the much larger Courtroom 1, but the change of venue proved to be unnecessary.
Only nine people spoke, with three of them expressing opposition to the proposal to put the issue before voters in November.
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