Blake Aued is a News Editor at Flagpole Magazine. He covers a range of topics including transportation and mobility, climate change and environmental issues, as well as regional interest and social issues in Georgia. Blake's work has been featured in Ecotopical, Streetsblog USA, and Flagpole Magazine.
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The University of Georgia and Clarke County School District have both canceled in-person classes and other events on Wednesday as snow started to blanket Athens on Tuesday afternoon. “Due to the current snowfall and the forecast for very cold temperatures overnight and throughout tomorrow, all CCSD schools and district offices will be closed Wednesday, January 22,” CCSD announced. “Schools will have a remote learning day (asynchronous instruction), and individual schools will provide families with additional information about student work expectations for the day. In addition, all after school and extracurricular activities and programming will be canceled for the day.” At UGA: Faculty members are expected to ensure continuity of instruction by making up for the missed material through alternative means. […]
By: Blake Aued
Audrey Haynes teaches a class at UGA. Credit: Paul Efland / University of Georgia
By: Blake Aued
Athens-Clarke County received a $5 million grant through the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law to install electric vehicle chargers, according to an announcement last week from Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Switching from regularly scheduled leaf-and-limb pickup to an on-demand service would keep the Athens-Clarke County Solid Waste Department from falling behind after major storms without adding to the budget, officials told ACC commissioners at a work session last week.
Transportation for America gave the Biden administration middling grades. Meanwhile, President Trump is already following through on promises to cancel EVs.
Snow surrounds the bulldog statue in front of the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Hotel. Chamberlain Smith/UGA
Is working from home here to stay, or will bosses eventually force their employees to come back to the office? And how will that affect transportation patterns?
Money for Acela, the D.C. Metro and other transit systems could have been spent on a moon base instead.
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