In the Loop
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Clarke Schools Are Laying Off 33 People
The Clarke County School District plans to eliminate more than 33 positions at a called Board of Education meeting on Thursday.
The exact positions were not specified in the BOE's meeting agenda, but they include:
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Mayor Denson's Budget Includes Tax Hikes, Raises
Athens-Clarke County government employees will get 2 percent raises in fiscal 2014—their first pay increases in five years—if Mayor Nancy Denson's proposed budget is approved, but they'll come at a cost to homeowners.
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State GOP Chairman's Race Heats Up
Animosity between upstart Ron Paul supporters and other Republicans apparently is alive and well.
At a Gwinnett County forum for candidates to replace Sue Everhart as chair of the state Republican Party, B.J. Van Gundy quizzed former Athens GOP chairman and current state party secretary John Padgett about an attempted takeover of the county party by Ron Paul supporters. The episode grew so heated it led to a fistfight after a party meeting.
Padgett helped put down the uprising—illegally, Paul supporters say, although he was later cleared of wrongdoing. Here's a recap of the debate from Z Politics:
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Does Downtown Need Another Parking Deck?
Most everybody seems pretty cool with the downtown master plan so far—at least those who showed up to a public hearing Thursday night.
The town hall meeting drew about 150 people to the Classic Center, a little over half the number who attended a similar meeting in November. And it wasn't a very diverse audience. But those who did turn out largely approved of the work UGA professor Jack Crowley and his crew of graduate assistants have done so far.
Some of the ideas Crowley floated we've heard before. Others were new, like a plan for offices and apartments wrapped around a new parking deck on the surface lot behind the federal building (prompted one wag to propose selling "I Love Big Decks" T-shirts to raise money).
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Ron Paul Endorses Paul Broun for Senate
Former congressman and presidential candidate and alleged crazy person Ron Paul has endorsed the other Dr. Paul, U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Athens), for Senate, Team Broun announced today.
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Good News, Athens Tech Students
You don't have to study quite so hard to keep your scholarship.
Gov. Nathan Deal signed House Bill 372 today, which lowers the grade point average technical schoolstudents need for HOPE grants from a 3.0 to a 2.0. From Deal's press office:
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Occupy Athens Skewers Mayor Denson
Tim and Jenny Denson of Occupy Athens submitted this cartoon and commentary depicting Mayor Nancy Denson as a modern-day Mr. Wilson for supporting a proposed law restricting when people can be on public property.
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Earth Week Events in Athens
The University of Georgia and Athens-Clarke County are stretching out Earth Day into Earth Week. Here are some of the events happening on campus. Think globally, act locally and all that.
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