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Vol. I, No. 1 · Sunday, April 26, 2026

Bavarian Brainrot

Bavarian Brainrot

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Cleveland, GA

Cleveland, GA

Coverage of the White County seat — the Cleveland City Council, the County Government Center, and the surrounding small-county machinery of self-government.

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The Cleveland City Council chamber, Tuesday evening. Item 9(d) is, to the council’s evident relief, behind them. (Photo: Bavarian Brainrot / Margaret Holcomb)

The Cleveland City Council chamber, Tuesday evening. Item 9(d) is, to the council’s evident relief, behind them. (Photo: Bavarian Brainrot / Margaret Holcomb)

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Cleveland City Council Quietly Adjusts Millage Rate By 0.0142 Mils, Triggering Most Significant Single Local-Tax Event In Memory

Tuesday’s 6–1 vote of the Cleveland City Council — nine items deep into a thirty-one-item agenda, after public comment had ended and most attendees had gone home — fractionally adjusted the city’s 2026 millage rate. Nobody noticed. We are reporting on it because somebody must.

By Margaret Holcomb · April 13, 2026 · 7 min read

Cleveland City Hall, Friday morning. The re-vote is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Monday, March 9. (Photo: Bavarian Brainrot / Margaret Holcomb)

Cleveland City Council Schedules Re-Vote On March 2 Millage Rate After Discovery That Original Vote Was Missing One Commissioner, Who Was Asleep

The Cleveland City Council's March 2 millage-rate adjustment — reported by Bavarian Brainrot as a 6-1 vote — was, per a clerk's recount completed Thursday and transmitted to the full council Friday morning, actually a 6-0 vote, because the seventh commissioner present was, at the time of the vote, asleep in his chair at the dais. The council has scheduled a re-vote for March 9.

By Margaret Holcomb · Mar 5, 2026 · 5 min

The White County Historical Society building on Hunt Street, Cleveland, Friday morning. The compromised slate section is on the north-facing rear slope, not visible from the street. (Photo: Bavarian Brainrot / Margaret Holcomb)

Cleveland Historical Society Unanimously Approves $8,400 Roof Repair For 1883 Building, Minutes Record Two Commissioners As 'Sighing Heavily'

The White County Historical Society's quarterly business meeting on Thursday evening produced one substantive vote — unanimous approval of an $8,400 contract for repairs to the slate roof of the Society's 1883 headquarters building on Hunt Street — and a set of certified minutes that represent, in the Bavarian Brainrot newsroom's experience, a departure from standard parliamentary-record practice.

By Margaret Holcomb · Mar 3, 2026 · 5 min