In the Loop
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Everything You Need to Know About Mike Pence
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore
Who is Mike Pence?
Indiana’s Republican governor and former congressman will be Donald Trump’s running mate, the Trump campaign confirmed this morning.
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GDOT Assesses Oconee Farmland at Commercial Rate
Doug Dickens, president of Dickens Farms Inc., told the Georgia Department of Transportation that it should assess his 102 acres on Mars Hill Road not as agricultural land, as it is zoned, but as the site of the large residential and commercial development he said he plans for the property.
The state ultimately accepted his argument, giving him a partial median cut that was not part of the original design and paying him $32,000 for 0.312 acres of permanent easement and 0.501 of construction easement.
That was 2.7 times the $11,800 recommended compensation for the acreage.
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ACCPD Chief: No Tolerance for Violent, Racist Officers
Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Scott Freeman.
Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Scott Freeman will fire and arrest any officer who violates a citizen’s civil rights, he said at a community forum on racial issues Tuesday night at the ACC Library.
“If you do your job, I will back you up to the hilt, even if it costs me my career,” Freeman said he tells his officers. “If you violate somebody’s constitutional rights, I will fight the GBI to be the first one to put handcuffs on you.”
Freeman defended an officer who shot an armed suspect earlier this year. He also fired and pressed charges against another officer, Jonathan Fraser, who beat up a drunken UGA studentlast August.
Freeman said he wants the right to more easily fire officers like Fraser. “He should have been fired years prior to that taking place,” he said.
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Athens Is Overrun With High, Naked UGA Bros
"We're going streaking to the poke stop!"
As we say in the journalism business, “two is a trend,” and so it’s officially a trend that UGA bros are getting hella faded and running around in public without any clothes on.
Actually, “turnt” might be the better word to describe the 22-year-old UGA senior who jumped into the back of a garbage truck downtown while naked on May 29. (IDK, somebody look it up on Urban Dictionary for me; I’m old and don’t know how to use the Google.)
It took four police officers to drag Benjamin Abele out of the truck because he “violently fought them off, and… it was difficult to get a hold of him because he was extremely slick from being coated with a foul-smelling liquid,” according to the Athens Banner-Herald. He was shot with a Taser twice with no effect.
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Oconee: No Agreement on Mars Hill Median Cut
Oconee County officials now say that the county does not have a written agreement to build a full median cut on Mars Hill Road to provide access to property owned by Dickens Farms Inc.
The officials also say that, prior to its meeting on Tuesday night, the Board of Commissioners had never voted to support that full median cut or to ask the Georgia Department of Transportation to modify its design for the road to include the full median cut.
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Athens for Everyone Celebrates Second Anniversary
Tim Denson admits that at times he wasn’t sure Athens for Everyone would last two months when he and supporters formed the organization following his 2014 run for mayor.
But two years later, A4E is still going strong. The group celebrated its second anniversary Friday with an open house at its new office in the Chase Park warehouses.
“It’s two years later,” he said. “We’re growing and growing and growing. We’re getting bigger and better.”
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of July 11
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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Hundreds Gather for Athens Black Lives Matter Rally
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
Several hundred people gathered outside Athens City Hall on a sweltering Sunday afternoon for a Black Lives Matter rally in the wake of two more African Americans dying at the hands of police and the revenge shootings of a dozen police officers in Dallas.
Speakers urged respect, both for African Americans and for police.
“All the people who want the violence and killing to stop, we need to come together, because we don’t want this to happen in our community,” said Mokah Jasmine Johnson, a teacher and hip hop promoter who organized the rally, as well as one against discrimination at downtown businesses in January.
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