Blog Topic: Government
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In the Loop: Lawyers Fight for Travelers Trapped by Trump
Lawyers huddled up, poring over papers on the floor of Dulles International Airport, outside of Washington D.C. a couple hundred feet away from the throngs of protesters cheering, chanting and welcoming home people coming out of customs from international flights.
Since President Donald Trump signed a poorly considered and chaotically implemented executive order banning immigrants, refugees and even green card holders from seven majority-Muslim countries on Friday evening—stranding people already in transit to the U.S.—these lawyers have been busting their asses.
“I could quit my job and just file Habeas writs,” one said. Her colleague laughed wearily.
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In the Loop: Two Ex-Commissioners Up for Downtown Post
Two former Athens-Clarke County commissioners are among the finalists to head the Athens Downtown Development Authority.
Linda Ford represented Five Points from 1999–2003. David Lynn represented the Prince Avenue area from 2003–2011.
A third finalist, William Herbig, is currently a program director at the Congress fort he New Urbanism in Washington, D.C., and former director of urban design for the Midtown Alliance in Atlanta. He studied architecture and historic preservation at the Savannah College of Art & Design, and holds a bachelor's degree in urban policy studies from Georgia State University and a master's in city planning from Georgia Tech.
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In the Loop: ACC Restricts Parking at World of Wonder Playground
Photo Credit: Blake Aued
The new World of Wonder playground that reopened in December is popular—a little TOO popular.
In response to what Athens-Clarke County officials call "dangerous situations that have been created for vehicles and pedestrians in the area, particularly children," the county government has instituted new parking restrictions at the Southeast Clarke Park playground.
Parking on the Whit Davis Road shoulder has been banned, and anyone who parks there can be towed by ACC police.
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In the Loop: As Trump Is Inaugurated, Protesters and Police Clash
Photo Credit: Baynard Woods
Police use tear gas against protestors at President Trump's inauguration in Washington, D.C.
Dozens of police officers with shields and batons and big canisters of tear gas and pepper spray stand in lines block off the corner at 12th and Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. gripping their batons and big canisters of pepper spray, faces obscured behind shields, as nearly 100 activists who had already been arrested are cordoned off behind them, waiting to be processed.
Protesters line the other side of the street. More and more arrive, chanting, yelling. “Let them go!”
A trial of pink smoke cuts through the air. There is the sound of a flashbang grenade and several officers open up with long orange streams of chemical warfare pepper spray.
“Because, today… we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.”
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In the Loop: Gov. Deal Bet 12 Tropicalias on the Falcons Game
Photo Credit: courtesy of Creature Comforts
It's hard to imagine Baptist Gov. Nathan Deal kicking back with a cold one to watch some football, but if he does, he has good taste. Deal included 12 Athens-made Creature Comforts Tropicalias in a wager with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over this weekend's Falcons-Packers game.
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In the Loop: Creature Comforts Is Building a Second Brewery in Boulevard
Photo Credit: courtesy of Creature Comforts
Creature Comforts will renovate part of an old mill off Chase Street just north of Boulevard into an $8 million new brewery slated to open this fall, the Athens company announced today.
The Athens-Clarke County Commission unanimously approved a $475,000 taxpayer contribution to the project at a specially called meeting tonight. The county Industrial Development Authority will use the money to buy brewing equipment that it will lease to Creature Comforts for a nominal fee for five years, after which Creature Comforts will own the equipment.
"This is an Athens company, and we want to keep those expansions here," ACC Manager Blaine Williams said.
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In the Loop: A Bible College Wants to Build Its Campus on an Old Oconee County Golf Course
The location of the proposed campus in northwestern Oconee County near the Clarke County line.
The Oconee County Planning Commission tonight will consider a request to convert a portion of the former Green Hills Golf Course and Country Club in the far east of the county to a ministry college.
Green Hills Farms LLC, the current land owner, is seeking a special use to allow the Athens College of Ministry to develop a campus on just more than 100.2 acres on the agriculturally zoned land.
Green Hills Farms LLC currently owns 189.2 acres in the small triangle of Oconee County on the east side of the Oconee River tucked between Athens-Clarke County and Oglethorpe County. The property has been vacant since 2009.
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In the Loop: New Chairman John Daniell Is Changing the Oconee Commission's Secretive Culture
Photo Credit: Lee Becker
Melvin Davis wasn’t at the work session of the Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Friday, but he had impact on the discussion nonetheless.
The meeting began with a review of the ethics ordinance for commissioners, which has been used only once—in a complaint filed against Davis.
The next topic was an ordinance passed by the commissioners in 2009 to reassert the power of the commission as a whole versus the power of the chairman. Davis opposed the ordinance when it was passed and fought it until he retired on Dec. 31.
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In the Loop: Oconee Commissioners Turn Down Solar Farm
Photo Credit: Lee Becker
From left, Oconee County commissioners Mark Thomas, Chuck Horton, Bubber Wilkes and Mark Saxon.
Oconee County commissioners in a 3-1 vote Tuesday night turned down a request for a 30-megawatt solar energy farm at the intersection of McNutt Creek Road and Dials Mill Road in the northwestern part of the county.
Commissioner Chuck Horton made the notion to deny the request for a special use of the 205 acres zoned agricultural for the solar farm, proposed by Rural Green Power LLC of Athens. Commissioner Mark Saxon seconded the motion and was joined by Horton and Commissioner William “Bubber” Wilkes in the vote on the motion. Newly elected Commissioner Mark Thomas provided the sole vote against the denial.
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In the Loop: Judge: Georgia Immigrants Protected by DACA Can Pay In-State Tuition
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Undocumented students and supporters protest Georgia immigration policy outside UGA President Jere Morehead's office in 2014.
Georgia residents who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and are protected from deportation by an Obama Administration policy should be allowed to pay in-state tuition at Georgia colleges, a Fulton County court ruled today.
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