6 days ago · PERIPHERAL PATHWAYS: There’s been a steady, albeit unpredictable, drip of new Nerve Clinic tracks coming out over the past several years, and the latest is “Shaping Shadows.” Composer and musician Monty Greene, the brains behind ATHICA’s Sonic Space series, delivers a deeply introspective piece of music that subtly shifts moods between blissful resignation and resolute action. That is ...

Athens GA Live Music Presents: Beast Mode, Trepid, Killick Hines, The Ain’t Sisters and More

Jun 19, 2019 · RFK, the 42-year-old younger brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, served as U.S. Attorney General from 1961–1964 and was elected to the U.S. Senate to represent the state of New York in 1964.

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 ...

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.

Oct 24, 2024 · District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez and Kalki Yalamanchili sharpened their attacks on each other during two recent candidate forums, with Gonzalez calling her independent challenger a closet Republican and Yalamanchili providing examples of serious courtroom missteps under her tenure. One forum took place Oct. 21 at the historically Black Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, while another was held in ...

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 ...

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Oct 2, 2024 · Almost a decade after the Georgia legislature legalized it, Athens residents finally have access to medical marijuana without driving to Atlanta now that the city’s first dispensary is open. Meanwhile, a new state law threatens the livelihood of existing hemp shops that sell similar products without a prescription. Fine Fettle—an outpost of one of …

Jan 8, 2025 · The Clarke County School District wants to opt out of a new state law capping how fast property tax assessments can rise, and is planning to hold three mandatory public hearings this month. Prompted by state legislators’ concerns about rapidly rising home values, and thus taxes, House Bill 581—ratified by Georgia voters in a November referendum—caps assessments at the rate of inflation ...