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  Nick
  Coltrain

  Rep. Regina Quick pulls no punches on Chamber scorecard

  Rep. Regina Quick, R-Athens, was one of two local delegates to score less than an "A+" in the Chamber of Commerce's annual legislative score card. She and I played phone tag Monday when I was reporting the story and I wasn't able to get her comments in a timely fashion. Instead, she sent over this statement Wednesday morning and she did not mince her words. (Links and italicized portions are my own; otherwise, it's as she wrote it.) Dear Friends: read more

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  Nick
  Coltrain

  UPDATED: Draft language of so-called curfew ordinance

  The committee opted Tuesday night to put off deciding on the ordinance until, at the earliest, its next meeting. Of note: The Athens-Clarke County attorney highlighted that the proposed times are, in essence, placeholders for the commission to change or keep as it pleases.   Full text of the Use of Public Right-of-Ways ordinance draft is below. read more

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• Politically Correct...

  I am reminded of something from my childhood..."Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."Grow...

• The Peoples Elbow

  What's more sad is that we have a Police Chief that, for years, has turned the other cheek at our "gang" presence and the crime...

• jtsim

  I think young people should spend their time and money learning something that will help them get a good job after...

• Jaki

  "Honkee"(sp?), "Cracker"...references to rednecks...somehow this is not seen as racist?Racism works all ways.

• Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks

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• Athens sees a surge in teen street gang violence

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