City Council splits on police drone grant, advances budget cuts
The Athens City Council met Tuesday evening for both committee meetings and regular session to debate a proposed drone grant and adjustments to the city’s 2026 budget.
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The Athens City Council met Tuesday evening for both committee meetings and regular session to debate a proposed drone grant and adjustments to the city’s 2026 budget.
Coming off consecutive road losses, Ohio (14-13 overall, 8-6 Mid-American Conference) returned home Tuesday night and avenged an early conference loss against Ball State (8-18 overall, 3-10 MAC). The Cardinals packed a punch in Muncie in mid-January, but Ohio flipped the script with a 69-57 win to take some momentum into the final stretch of its season.
Spoilers for the book and movie ahead.
On Jan. 29, the star-studded cast of the new Broadway revival of “The Rocky Horror Show” was announced.
For audiences, theater performances start when the lights go down and the curtains open. For the cast, crew and directors, the show begins weeks or months before with preproduction meetings and auditions.
In 2024, 10,500 athletes competed in the Paris Summer Olympics. This year, around 2,900 athletes are competing in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The difference in athletes is staggering, but it’s not shocking when you consider the cost and accessibility of winter sports. These sports are less affordable and also less accessible to people of color than summer sports, and athletes and federations need to provide access for minority communities.
In music, there’s a phrase that goes "separate the art from the artist,” meaning overlooking the personal views and actions of creators to engage with their work. This concept is an outdated defense mechanism used to ease personal discomfort in tricky controversies.
Ohio’s (4-6, 1-5 Mid-American Conference) regular season comes to a close with its final dual meet against the Buffalo Bulls (3-11, 2-5 MAC) at home. The Bobcats are coming off their fifth loss in a row to the Clarion Golden Eagles.
Concerns of childcare fraud from daycare centers in Minnesota caused a frenzy among Ohio politicians, investigative journalists and influencers in Columbus.
A new form of gambling has taken off. Event predictions allow people to place bets on the outcome of future events with unknown outcomes; this could be betting on the winner of a football game or the next candidate for the 2028 presidential election.
Ohio (1-2 overall) kicked off its season on the wrong foot, losing a neutral-site series against Murray State (2-1 overall). Ohio had a lot of new people in the building this offseason, including new head coach Andrew See and an entirely new coaching staff, as the Bobcats hoped the regime change could spark a turnaround from the 2025 campaign.
Friday, Feb. 6
New legislation in Ohio could create a nonpartisan council to examine the growing footprint of data centers. If the bill is passed, the subsequent council would review data centers’ environmental impact, electricity and water use, light and noise pollution and local economic effects.
The Super Bowl is as much about commercials as it is football, with 78% of people watching the commercials during the Super Bowl and 24% watching them attentively, which gives the Super Bowl the label, “American culture’s marketing machine.”
Ohio (7-2 overall) kept the hot start to the 2026 season rolling this past weekend in Chattanooga, Tennesse, in the Chattanooga Classic.
Ohio (26-6) won the first game 2-1, but fell to the Liberty University Flames (19-9-1) in a rematch 3-1. The Bobcats outlasted the Flames in the first contest with discipline and effective defense. The intensified emotions of senior night may have gotten the best of the home team on Saturday night. Opportunistic plays, blocked shots and a calm goalie powered the Flames’ win.
Ohio (4-6, 1-5 Mid-American Conference) has been in a slump its wrestling program hasn’t experienced since the 2022-23 season. Back then, the Bobcats lost six dual meets consecutively in the middle of their season.
A road salt shortage across Ohio during the late-January winter storms pushed Athens’ supply to low levels before a 500-ton shipment arrived Feb. 12.