In the Loop
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Morehead Backs UGA Health Care Navigators
Tea Party activists have protested University of Georgia health care navigators, and state lawmakers are considering putting them out of work, but UGA President Jere Morehead defends the navigator program as one that's in line with the university's mission.
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Clear-Cutting for Hard Labor Creek Reservoir Starts Monday
Residents of southeastern Walton County as well as others traveling through the area will soon get a clearer sense of the scope of the 1,400 acre Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir project.
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Oconee Commissioner Asks for SPLOST Delay
Oconee County Commissioner Margaret Hale asked her fellow commissioners Tuesday night to delay the vote on the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum from May to November, but none of them expressed any support for her request.
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Broun Urged to Reconsider on Immigration
Representatives from the AFL-CIO union, Asian and Latino groups, Freedom University and Tim Denson's mayoral campaign gathered at U.S. Rep. Paul Broun's Athens office this morning to urge him to reconsider his opposition to comprehensive immigration reform.
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Former Athens City Councilman Jailed
Matthew Ware, a Lithonia accountant and former Athens city councilman, recently started serving a six-year prison sentence for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars for cocaine traffickers.
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Union Endorses Melissa Link for ACC Commission
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union has endorsed Melissa Link in the Athens-Clarke County Commission District 3 race.
The UFCW represents 1.3 million grocery, retail, meat packing and food processing workers.
"We applaud your support for working men and women and wish you success in the upcoming election and in the days ahead," says a letter to Link from UFCW President Steve Lomax dated Feb. 13.
Link faces Rachel Watkins and Herb Gilmore in the District 3 race.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Feb. 17
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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Thanks to Student Apartments, Oconee Building Permits Top Pre-Crash Levels
Athens Ridge
The Oconee County Code Enforcement Office issued 502 single family and town home permits in 2013, exceeding the number issued for residential construction in 2006—before the housing collapse of a year later.
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