In the Loop
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 29
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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Mayor Denson Won't Let the Commission Vote on the Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Next Week
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Mokah Jasmine Johnson speaks about the anti-discrimination ordinance at the commission's Aug. 16 agenda-setting meeting.
The Athens-Clarke County Commission won’t vote on a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance at its Sept. 6 meeting.
Mayor Nancy Denson told the Athens Banner-Herald that she supports the ordinance as written, but she took it off the agenda because she’s concerned that some commissioners will try to include restaurants in the ordinance, which currently would only cover bars.
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ACC Names Drew Raessler Transportation Director
A Cobb County engineer and UGA graduate will take over as director Athens-Clarke County's Transportation and Public Works Department, ACC Manager Blaine Williams announced today.
Raessler replaces David Clark, who took a job as head of Fulton County's transportation department in May.
"I am excited that Drew will be coming to our dynamic government and community," Williams said in a news release. "He brings technical expertise, excellent communication skills and a natural affinity for building and maintaining multi-modal transportation systems. I am looking forward to Drew having a long and productive career here."
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The Townie Argument Against the Student Argument for Big Business in Athens
A relic of the past, according to student journalist Cassie Daigle.
A UGA student recently wrote a Red & Black column in praise of corporate chains, and people are pissed. I haven’t seen Townie Facebook this lit since the Prince Avenue Wendy’s burned down.
Ordinarily, I’d let such less-than-well-thought-out commentary in the local student paper pass. And let it be known that I come here not to bury Cassie Daigle, but to praise her. She’s discovered the power of the hate click at a young age, and has a bright career ahead of her writing on the internet. But Flagpole wouldn’t be the “colorbearer of Athens” if we didn’t offer some sort of retort to this argument.
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ACC Could Easily Extend Sewer to Oconee County
Athens-Clarke County has excess capacity at its Middle Oconee Water Reclamation Facility, the sewer plant closest to Oconee County, an analysis of the Discharge Monitoring Reports for the plant since January of this year shows.
Athens-Clarke County also has a gravity feed sewer line running along its side of McNutt Creek, paralleling the sewer line that Oconee County is building from Bogart to Epps Bridge Parkway on its side of the stream.
The existing ACC sewer line already carries sewage from a limited number of customers in Oconee County to the Middle Oconee plant.
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Oconee County Misled Public on Mars Hill Road Work
Oconee County administrators, to accommodate Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis, intentionally mislabeled $15,000 in expenses in giving a public presentation in June of a bill for added design work for Mars Hill Road.
Moreland Altobelli Associates Inc. billed the county $10,000 for requested design work to reconnect Old Mars Hill Road to Mars Hill Road and $5,000 for design work on a median break requested by businessman Doug Dickens.
In the presentation to the public, the reference to Old Mars Hill Road was eliminated, and the median cut was linked to the Athens Area Humane Society, not Dickens.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 22
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.
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
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Police Identify 'Person of Interest' in Downtown Athens Shooting
Photo Credit: Blake Aued
Police Chief Scott Freeman (right) speaks to downtown business owners Wednesday at the Classic Center as Capt. Jerry Saulters looks on.
Athens-Clarke County police have identified a “person of interest” in the murder of 28-year-old Daniel Macias downtown early Saturday morning, they said Wednesday.
Police met with downtown business owners and the media Wednesday evening to update them on the investigation into the shooting of Macias, a Riverbend Parkway resident and Agua Linda server, near the ACC Courthouse at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and Jackson Street.
Eight Athens-Clarke County police detectives and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent are working 16-hour days reviewing video, interviewing potential witnesses and canvassing downtown apartment buildings to solve the murder of 28-year-old Daniel Macias downtown early Saturday morning, they said
“We’ve got folks looking at every angle of this,” said Capt. Jerry Saulters, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.
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