Stories

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  Housing in Athens Is Getting More Expensive, and SPLOST Aims to Fix That

  By Ashlyn Webb | October 23, 2019

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  Homebuilders: Regs, Zoning Add to Cost of Housing

  City Dope

  By John Huie | August 28, 2019

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  CCSD Board Members Have Ideas for Improving Education; Will Legislators Listen?

  City Dope

  By Rebecca McCarthy | February 6, 2019

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  Commissioners Talk Affordable Housing, Equity and Inclusiveness

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | November 21, 2018

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  Is Athens Ready to Downsize to 'Kinda Tiny' Homes?

  By Carolyn Crist | July 25, 2018

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  How Would Athens Handle a Mass Shooting or School Shooting?

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | March 7, 2018

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  Commissioners' Priorities for State Legislators Include Moving Elections

  City Dope

  By John Huie | November 22, 2017

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  Legislature Says Yes to Campus Carry, No to Tax Incentives for Musicians

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | April 5, 2017

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  Campus Carry Is Back, and More Legislative Updates

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | February 15, 2017

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  What Did the Legislature End Up Passing?

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | March 30, 2016

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  Spencer Frye

  Athens Superheroes

  By Blake Aued | March 2, 2016

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  Teachers and Democrats Speak Out Against Deal's School Reform

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | February 3, 2016

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  The General Assembly Is Assembling Again

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | January 6, 2016

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  Airing It Out: Short-Term Rental Homes Spark Discussion

  By Carolyn Crist | September 30, 2015

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  UGA Students Raise Awareness of Affordable Housing—but They're Also Why It's Expensive

  By Evelyn Andrews | April 29, 2015

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  Is Athens Ever Getting a Downtown Grocery Store?

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | April 22, 2015

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  Commissioners Are Talking About Splitting Up Leisure Services

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | April 15, 2015

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  2015 in Athens Politics

  City Dope

  New leadership, new development and other issues we'll face.

  By Blake Aued | January 7, 2015

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  Terrapin, Creature Comforts and Other Craft Breweries Say Georgia Law Is Holding Them Back

  By Matthew Pulver | January 7, 2015

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  Is Letting Sheep Graze on Invasive Plants a Baaaaad Idea?

  City Dope

  By Blake Aued | June 11, 2014

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  Reading and Revolvers

  Thanks to the state legislature, if we want to keep guns out of libraries and other public buildings, it could cost us a bundle.

  By Blake Aued | March 5, 2014

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  Deal's Budget Only Starts to Repair Damage to Schools

  Funding for K-12 and higher education remains millions less than before the recession.

  By Blake Aued | January 22, 2014

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  The Georgia Legislature's 2014 Session Preview

  The budget, buildings, bullets, buses and... beer?

  By Blake Aued | January 8, 2014

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  A Church and a Thrift Store Fill Up Empty Atlanta Highway Big Boxes

  Habitat for Humanity's new ReStore opened last week.

  By Sarah Anne Perry | August 28, 2013