Couple of things
- OK, the feud between The Red & Black and the Athens Banner-Herald apparently won't evolve after all, with the former sort of wussing out. They rightfully played it straight by honing up to some of the apparent problems in the reporting, but didn't push back in defense of their journalistic independence or chastize the Banner-Herald for publically calling them out. But, where The Red & Black backs down, Hillary does not.
- Good editorial today by J.T. and the boys regarding the proposed changes to the Community Development Block Grants. I've worked with these things for some time now through IHN of Athens, and it's obvious we need to tinker with the formula. So let's all credit Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Alice Kinman for her hard work in helping to formulate some of these ideas. Blake Aued did a nice job with his Sunday examination of these proposals, and he managed to get a couple of quotes from our executive director. On a related note, seeing how IHN of Athens helps homeless families and combats poverty in the community, the first report from Partners for a Prosperous Athens is due out, and its findings aren't pretty.
- This happened a few years back when I was a student, and the University fixed it. Why tinker with the system now ... particularly when it leads right back to the same type of confusion and disturbances?
- I watched the first two parts of Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke last night and found it to be very powerful and very well done. It was amazingly fair in its assignment of blame, particularly being hard on the actions of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin. I'll definitely tune in tonight to see the final two portions.
- Matt Yglesias takes a look at book review on Lyndon Johnson ... and me being of the history-loving type, particularly progressive history, it interested me.
- Good editorial today by J.T. and the boys regarding the proposed changes to the Community Development Block Grants. I've worked with these things for some time now through IHN of Athens, and it's obvious we need to tinker with the formula. So let's all credit Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Alice Kinman for her hard work in helping to formulate some of these ideas. Blake Aued did a nice job with his Sunday examination of these proposals, and he managed to get a couple of quotes from our executive director. On a related note, seeing how IHN of Athens helps homeless families and combats poverty in the community, the first report from Partners for a Prosperous Athens is due out, and its findings aren't pretty.
- This happened a few years back when I was a student, and the University fixed it. Why tinker with the system now ... particularly when it leads right back to the same type of confusion and disturbances?
- I watched the first two parts of Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke last night and found it to be very powerful and very well done. It was amazingly fair in its assignment of blame, particularly being hard on the actions of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin. I'll definitely tune in tonight to see the final two portions.
- Matt Yglesias takes a look at book review on Lyndon Johnson ... and me being of the history-loving type, particularly progressive history, it interested me.
posted by Jmac at 9:05 AM
2 Comments:
This student ticket thing is crazy. Obviously there were some computer issues that slowed things down but the big problem is that the students are idiots. Unlike when you and I were undergrads and this happened Jonathan, we are now GUARANTEED our tickets. All we have to do is show up at the Coliseum anytime this entire week, have our ID scanned and get our reserved set of tickets. All the students yesterday that created this mess went apparently so they could get lower level seats....trust me, I went today and there are still TONS of lower level seats. On top of that it took me all of one minute as I waited in line behind ONE person.
The system works fine, the Athletic Association just needs to provide better information regarding the availability of seating OR release a certain number of lower and upper level seats each day and the mess can be avoided.
TIM
Jmac,
Can you give me an email address where I can contact you? basmith@randb.com
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