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Athens-Clarke County Commissioners could vote Tuesday on a proposal to change how garbage is collected in downtown Athens.

Athens-Clarke County Commissioners will be taking a look at a proposal to purchase 9 hybrid SUV's for the police department.

  Georgia Governor Brian Kemp went on the attack against Major League Baseball and so-called "cancel culture," while playing defense on a new elections law that has drawn criticism from across the state and the nation.

Speaking at a press conference, and backed by dozens of mostly unmasked supporters and state lawmakers on Saturday, the governor accused MLB, as well as Georgia-based companies Delta and Coca Cola of being "afraid of Stacey Abrams." Abrams was the governor's 2018 Democratic opponent, and is a vocal critic of the state's elections procedures and the new law.

A committee of Athens-Clarke County lawmakers continued to refine the language of a proposed civil rights ordinance in a meeting on Thursday.

The ACC Commission’s legislative review committee spent most of their meeting yesterday discussing a potential civil rights ordinance, something that many commissioners have wanted to pass for months. ACC officials say the current draft of the ordinance incorporates ideas from similar laws passed in the metro Atlanta cities of Brookhaven and Decatur.