Blake Aued
News Editor at Flagpole Magazine
Contributor at Streetsblog Network
Editor @FlagpoleMag, contributor @streetsblogUSA. My name is my handle everywhere. #WAOM
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flagpole.com | Blake Aued
Mayor Kelly Girtz broke a tie in favor of a land swap for a student housing development north of downtown that will net Athens-Clarke County millions of dollars for affordable housing, as well as a free public parking deck and sewer improvements.
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flagpole.com | Blake Aued
The Athens-Clarke County Commission split along familiar lines in approving Commissioner Mike Hamby’s budget proposal that, in a novel juggling act, uses accumulated interest from sales tax collections to pay for a small property tax cut and a number of requested items, such as raises for sheriff’s deputies. Commissioner Carol Myers had proposed a budget that included a much smaller amount of SPLOST and TSPLOST interest—Hamby’s budget included $6.7 million and Myers’ $1.5 million—and no tax cut.
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flagpole.com | Blake Aued
The Clarke County Board of Education approved its own budget last week as well. The $255 million spending plan is $13 million more than the current fiscal year. Almost all of that is salary raises and benefits, including $8.5 million in state-mandated increased health care costs and retirement contributions.
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flagpole.com | Blake Aued
The AthFest Music & Arts Festival downtown this weekend won’t be just a good time—it’s for a good cause, too. The festival raised more than $100,000 in 2024 for AthFest Educates, its parent nonprofit, which has raised almost $700,000 for K-12 arts and music education in Athens-Clarke County to date. Funds come from Club Crawl wristbands, merchandise and beverage sales, artist market and vendor fees, sponsorships and donations.
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flagpole.com | Blake Aued
Local officials in red and blue communities around the country are puzzled as to how they landed on a since-retracted U.S. Department of Homeland Security list of about 500 “sanctuary cities,” and Athens is no different. The list renewed a debate that dates back to the February 2024 arrest of a Venezuelan man who crossed the border illegally on charges of murdering nursing student Laken Riley—a case that continues to make national headlines.
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Trump discards everyone who tries to curry favor with him once they’re no longer useful. I can’t understand why so many people think they’re the exception.
Rand Paul: I’ve just been told that I’ve been uninvited from the White House picnic. Every Democrat and Republican will be invited. I just find this incredibly petty. It really makes me lose a lot of the respect I had for Donald Trump. https://t.co/5jutaqX87Q
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