Dec 27, 2024 · The Athens-Clarke County Commission narrowly approved a resolution last week that could do away with costly and often sparsely attended runoff elections. The resolution in support of ranked choice voting, also known as instant runoffs, passed 6–5, with Mayor Kelly Girtz breaking the tie. The resolution doesn’t commit ACC to implementing ranked choice voting—where voters rank the ...

Dec 18, 2024 · If you drew up a list of the two dozen people most likely to become the 48th president of the United States, Gov. Brian Kemp’s name would probably be on it. So, halfway through his second and final term as governor, Kemp has decisions to make about his political future. And while the man in the governor’s mansion knows things that the rest of us cannot, from polling data and donor lists to ...

Apr 3, 2024 · “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” So begins 1984, author George Orwell’s frightening novel about citizens under the thrall of a dictatorship. “Big Brother is watching you” is a threat and a warning to the populace that is surveilled by the all-seeing eye of the “telescreen” that tracks their every move while also pacifying them with cheap ...

Nov 4, 2024 · This article was originally published at ProPublica. When Donald Trump was president, he repeatedly tried to raise the rent on at least 4 million of the poorest people in this country, many of them elderly or disabled. He proposed to cut the federal disability benefits of a quarter-million low-income children, on the grounds that someone else in their family was already receiving benefits. He ...

Oct 28, 2024 · The annual Wild Rumpus Parade & Spectacle drew the magical, fantastical and unimaginable to downtown last Saturday night. Musicians lined the streets to cheer on the parade, and a giant crowd gathered at the main stage in front of the 40 Watt Club for a dance party and various performances. Check out photos from the parade and festivities below, courtesy of Flagpole contributor Jessica Gratigny.

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Nov 13, 2024 · In the summer of 2020, millions of protesters nationwide took to the streets after George Floyd died with his neck underneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer who’d stopped him on suspicion of passing a counterfeit bill, calling for his mother with his last breath. That included Athens, where some protesters were met with tear gas late at night. A couple weeks later, thousands more ...