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We could have 15 minute headways, but instead Mike Hamby wants to give his constituents a $15 tax cut they’ll never notice.

I didn’t say that fare-free was the cause of low wages. I said that ACC should have kept contributing to transit out of the general fund and added onto it with TSPLOST and improved service that way.

That’s not what UGA did. They banned bikes on sidewalks, which is state law anyway.

Same, except it’s plotting my strategy for winning Risk

Like, who are we trying to serve here? Let’s concentrate on that.

He kinda skirted it, but I think Gavin’s audit raised a great point, which is: are we trying to attract choice riders, or is this is the transportation mode of last resort?

It seems to me the main concern is homeless people riding the bus all day, which fares aren’t going to solve, because nonprofits used to get free passes to hand out to clients anyway.

A little bit, but they also cut some routes due to lack of drivers because they’re not paying enough. So it comes out in the wash.

I’m sure it goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: Cutting transit would be an absolute catastrophe from a business perspective, because it’s a way for people to get to work, even if not the most convenient way. People who rely on it aren’t suddenly going to be able to afford cars.

There aren’t really any strong transit advocates on the commission right now, and a few who’d probably scrap the whole system if they could.

(Also I’d add that Athens Transit as it exists now, while inadequate IMO, is not “a joke.” It’s way better than I’ve ever seen in a city this size. Macon only has like four routes.)

The thing is, it wouldn’t generate enough money to improve service much. What bothers me more is that the commission replaced the general fund money we used to spend on transit with TSPLOST instead of supplementing it with TSPLOST.

I knew a guy in high school in the ‘90s who had a birth defect, like he had one shriveled arm and used to make these Heil Hitler gestures with it, and we all thought it was an involuntary tic. Turned out his whole family was a bunch of Ruby Ridge-style doomsday prepper white supremacists.

Next time shoot your shot

Your biggest regret is about to be lowkey admitting you regularly check the Craigslist missed connections

Every damn hour, for the Mac G4’s in the Daily Mississippian newsroom

Commissioner Dexter Fisher wants to organize all the local nonprofits to do one big “back to school bash” downtown for kids to pick up bags and school supplies. Which sounds great, except I keep hearing about how families and POC don’t feel welcome downtown and don’t leave their neighborhoods?

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Lukasiewicz and her husband were the primary forces behind saving the Lyndon House and creating the arts center

Well, she did get one dropped and pleaded down the other. I wish we had gotten an explanation (was it a bad mix of medications or what) because clearly she was somehow impaired

This is such Trumpy logic: There is a class of people I dislike and believe are freeloaders, so I’ll waste my own tax dollars in order to make them pay.

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“I’m wiping the slate clean. I ain’t got grudges against nobody.”

Narrator voice:

Athens Town Hall Meeting Addresses Gun Violence - Flagpole Earlier this month, Mayor Kelly Girtz announced that, for the first time, Athens had made it through half the year without a single murder. “This has been a team effort with ACCPD, every community sup...

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Commissioner Ovita Thornton announced she’s running for re-election. She told people she wasn’t 4-5 years ago because COVID and George Floyd were “a freakin’ nightmare.” Then two DUI arrests. But she said she has unfinished business. “I feel like Nehemiah. I’m staying on the wall.”

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Yes. I’m trying to find it.

My household is basically Spanish in terms of meal times. Of course we both didn’t used to get off work until like 9 or 10 most nights, but even after having a kid dinner is more like 7 or 8 usually.

Lucy Rowland had a good one years ago

Maybe Dale Murphy can drive.

Cool. Let’s invite Jimmy. Is there room in the car for Chase Utley?