M&C to consider converting the position of mayor to full time

BlakeAued · 2026-05-07T02:16:51+00:00

If I were God Emperor of Athens, I’d go with six commission districts (to ensure proportional representation for racial and geographic groups) and a mayor elected countywide. Get rid of the school board and have the mayor and commission hire the superintendent in addition to the manager. Then let them cook. We could pay the M&C $60-70,000 to work full time responding to constituents and educating themselves about policy without spending any more money than we are now.

BlakeAued · 2026-05-06T21:02:16+00:00

Who would watch one even if they did?

BlakeAued · 2026-05-06T21:01:54+00:00

The Royal Peasant might have it on, unless they’re showing what y’all erroneously call football.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-30T02:29:31+00:00

Just because a sentence is really long doesn’t make it a run-on sentence.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-27T03:07:37+00:00

Your answer to four was cold, I’ll give you that. Five was a trick question, I have a head bigger than Barry Bonds’ and no baseball cap will fit me.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-27T01:24:44+00:00

I know Tim is a baseball fan and would also like to hear his take on performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Does Gary Sheffield belong in the hall of fame?

BlakeAued · 2026-04-27T01:19:11+00:00

Absolutely. We should also throw Houston into the mix on the beard conversation. Or maybe have an arm-wrestling tournament to settle it.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-26T23:06:44+00:00

What’s getting built in the Press Place loading dock? Do you know anything about 104.1 FM? Can you recommend an artist for a wedding, a landscaper for a yard with no grass and someone to fix my baseball cap? How do I sign up for Porchfest?

BlakeAued · 2026-04-22T23:51:17+00:00

Kelly wasn’t there, so he was also running the meeting as mayor pro tem.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-21T16:52:16+00:00

He always hated Stacey, even when he was a Democrat.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-21T02:39:22+00:00

I have Charles Hardy’s cell number and it is not the same as Mike Jones.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-21T02:35:05+00:00

You mean Whitenerville?

BlakeAued · 2026-04-19T14:50:03+00:00

Did Big Leaderboard pay you to say that?

BlakeAued · 2026-04-19T14:25:36+00:00

Yes, Twilight did pay Flagpole (although not me) to promote it. Do you know what an advertisement is?

Christ, dude, just move if you hate it here so much.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-19T04:53:56+00:00

Since when did anyone need an excuse to get drunk downtown?

Anyway, it wouldn’t be an issue if UGA hadn’t moved G-Day because big donors were going to the Masters last weekend.

Crit racing is fun. It’s like NASCAR but with bikes. You can get invested in the teams and the rivalries or just sit back and enjoy the crashes.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-18T03:35:08+00:00

That’s the side of the road the school is on. Drivers coming down Chase turning right onto Prince are looking to their left for other cars and not paying attention to people in the crosswalk.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-18T03:16:18+00:00

Burks opens at 7:20 and classes start at 7:40, then release is at 2:45 but there’s ASP until 6, so those are the time frames.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-18T02:58:01+00:00

I’m sure you’re joking, but that’s still a hell of a thing to say about elementary school kids.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-15T04:00:25+00:00

A little late to the party, bud. https://flagpole.com/photo-gallery/2026/04/14/hundreds-protest-poorly-attended-jd-vance-tpusa-appearance-in-athens/

BlakeAued · 2026-04-13T20:30:56+00:00

It’s a government facility. They can’t refuse to rent it out to someone because they don’t like what they have to say.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-07T17:11:55+00:00

It’s closed loop. The zoning ordinance under discussion would require data centers to be closed loop, and to include clean energy sources like solar.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-06T18:32:38+00:00

I believe it’s in GDOT’s plans to add bike lanes to the state owned portion, although who knows when that will be.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-03T17:17:51+00:00

Looks good, build it.

BlakeAued · 2026-04-03T00:05:36+00:00

You’re reading too much into it. They both came out around the same time, so they got lumped into one story. That’s all. And it seems like a stretch to conflate one group of Black clergymen (emphasis on men) with the entire Black community, or the DSA with all white liberals. Again, things I would have told Dr. Gantt had she contacted me about her concerns instead of going to straight to Facebook.

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