In the Loop
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Chris Conley: Stop Calling Trump's Offensive Comments 'Locker Room Talk'
Photo Credit: Jim Hipple
Chris Conley, Flagpole’s all-time favorite Bulldog, wants you to know that “grab them by the pussy” isn’t locker-room talk.
The former UGA receiver, who now plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, shot off a few tweets lasrt night aimed at those who’ve been dismissing Donald Trump’s controversial comments made on the “Access Hollywood” set in 2005.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Oct. 10
Tony B.
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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RIP Darius Weems
Photo Credit: Darius Goes West via Facebook
Darius Weems—the subject of the award-winning documentary Darius Goes West—died today at the age of 27.
Weems died of complications from Duchenne Musculary Dystrophy, the disease that confined him to a wheelchair for most of his life.
Logan Smalley, then a University of Georgia student, organized a trip to California for Weems in 2004, fulfilling his lifelong dream of traveling across the country, and documented it for the film, which has raised more than $1 million for DMD research.
The Darius Goes West Facebook page posted the following tribute:
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UGA Stonewalls Student Journalists on Sexual Assault
Days after Grady Newsource asked the University of Georgia for comment on recently released rape statistics, the university still has not responded.
A UGA report released in September included reports of 29 rapes on campus, including 22 at residence halls. The student-run TV station asked UGA why so many of the rape reports came from residence halls and why so few result in an arrest, among other questions. A university spokesman told the reporter Monday he was working “feverishly” to find answers, but as of Wednesday, he had not provided any.
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Gov. Deal Orders Georgia Coast Evacuated as Hurricane Matthew Approaches
Gov. Nathan Deal has ordered more than half a million coastal Georgia residents to evacuate as Hurricane Matthew approaches.
The mandatory evacuation order applies to everyone in Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden counties who lives east of I-95. Another 30 southeast Georgia counties are urged to voluntarily evacuate.
Eastbound lanes on I-16 between Savannah and Dublin have been reversed. All lanes are now westbound.
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Mayor Denson Will Allow a Vote on the Anti-Discrimination Ordinance After All
Mayor Nancy Denson will put a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance back on the agenda next month, she announced at the Athens-Clarke County Commission meeting Tuesday night, shortly after hundreds of protestors marched on City Hall to demand a vote on the ordinance.
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
About 200 protesters marched from the Arch and gathered outside City Hall, then entered the building singing and chanting as the meeting was getting underway. Several dozen of them stood in the back of the commission chamber continuing to sing as new Public Utilities Director Frank Stevens attempted to introduce himself to the commission.
Denson told the protesters that she would have police escort them out if they didn’t quiet down. “I think it’s not loud enough, if you ask me,” one woman replied. But the crowd did grow quieter when Denson said she would put the ordinance up for a vote Nov. 1 after blocking a vote for the past two months.
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Athens Education Experts: Vote 'No' on the Opportunity School District Amendment
Photo Credit: Federation of Neighborhoods
A panel of education experts left no doubt about the intention to vote “no” this November againstAmendment 1, the Opportunity School District constitutional amendment, at the latest Athens-Clarke County Federation of Neighborhoods meeting Monday.
The amendment, which would allow the state to overtake schools labeled as “persistently failing,” faced criticism throughout the forum, which focused on one question: “Who will control our schools?”
The amendment’s language is broad, vague and a “power grab,” said C.J. Amason, a local parent and director of the Foundation for Excellence in Public Education.
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Oconee Can't Dump More Sewage Into Calls Creek
Photo Credit: Lee Becker
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has denied Oconee County’s request for a 3 million gallons per day waste load allocation for Calls Creek, saying the stream is too small to handle the treated effluent.
The denial means that the county will have to change its plans to upgrade its Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant on the outskirts of Watkinsville, run a sewer line down Calls Creek, or find another way to discharge treated sewer water from an expanded Calls Creek plant into the Middle Oconee River.
Residents along Calls Creek have voiced strong and persistent opposition to construction of a sewer line down the creek, with many saying they will force the county to take condemnation action against them to get easements for the sewer line.
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