The ACC Mayor & Commission are set to vote on a program that will make Athens Transit buses free, year-round, for all Clarke County K-12 students at the August 2016 Voting Meeting. At the Agenda-Setting Session, Commissioner Sharyn Dickerson, District 1, brought up concerns that children couldn’t understand the value […]
Athens-Clarke County
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Last night the ACC Mayor & Commission adopted a budget for the 2017 fiscal year that created a path for nearly 100 part-time county workers to be paid a living wage, but left uncertainty for the remaining workers. Since the fall of 2015, Athens for Everyone has been fighting for all county employees […]
MIT operates a service that looks at cost of living and calculates a living wage by geography. In Athens, this wage is $10.17 per hour. Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 7th) we ask that you join us at 7:00pm at City Hall (301 College Ave) to demand that the hourly employees of […]
For a Sunday at 3 PM, the passion in Athens-Clarke County Library was undeniably palpable. About thirty community activists—both new and veteran, from numerous backgrounds and organizational affiliations (NAACP, A4E, EJC and others) —came together to discuss next steps following the Anti-Discrimination March organized by Mokah and Knowa Johnson of […]