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Ed Tant
Ed Tant is a freelance journalist in Athens, Georgia and biweekly columnist for the ''Athens Banner-Herald'' newspaper. He has written since 1974 for a variety of publications including ''The Progressive'', ''Z magazine'', ''Remember magazine'', ''The Athens Observer'', ''Astronomy (magazine), Astronomy'', ''Odyssey children’s magazine'', ''National Comment'', the ''Sinclair Lewis Centennial magazine'', and unpaid, unsolicited opinion pieces in the letters sections of ''The New York Times'', ''The Nation'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Atlanta Constitution'' and ''The Village Voice''. He is also a volunteer and speaker at the annual Athens Human Rights Festival, usually held in May in downtown Athens, Georgia on College Square. His full-time occupation is as a security guard for the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia for which he receives a salary of around $16,000. Tant has been a political activist since 1968, traveling over 50,000 miles (80,000 km) to cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens, Georgia
Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County. As of 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau's population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) was 127,315. Athens is the sixth-largest city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, which had a 2020 population of 215,415, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Comb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
