Hemlock, flea markets, slums of Athens, global energy, lost and found, puzzles and puzzle conventions. We've got it all in this issue's Athens Voice, plus, of course, plenty of thoughts on the sheriff. This is your voice, Athens, cherish it.

Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history.

Anyone who has been a reporter for any length of time will remember using what in the newsroom used to be called "the cross-reference directory" but which formally was "R.L. Polk's City Directory."

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Now that the White House has acknowledged that the Assad regime in Syria did use sarin gas on several occasions in March, killing 100-150 people, a couple of questions are immediately obvious. What will Obama's next step be? What role should the United States play in this increasingly bloody conflict?