Couple of things
- Karin Albert puts together a nice letter in favor of the Athens-Clarke County YWCO, and this story is getting some good traction. We had an incredibly high number of comments on my posting, and then Blake picked it up for his blog.
- Athens-Clarke County District Nine Commissioner Kelly Girtz shared some thoughts on residential speeding and traffic calming.
- I'm not alone in picking on Kos, as Andre picks up on his new obsession with Georgia.
- Bill Shipp: It's hot, so we don't need no stinking leadership.
- Folks can trump out the tired experience card all they want, but Barack Obama makes more and more sense when it comes to matters of foreign policy, which is something Matthew Yglesias alluded to here.
- As much as I would like to see expanded service at Ben Epps Airport, Athens-Clarke County Manager Alan Reddish is right on the money on this thing. Not only are small airports across the region closing up shop, it is important to remember that we're just an hour away from the busiest airport in the U.S. in Atlanta, as well as an hour-and-a-half away from one in Greenville-Spartanburg. One has to think folks, as of now, are content with those options.
- Since we're a little more than a week away from kickoff, I like Kyle's smackdown of South Carolina right here.
- Athens-Clarke County District Nine Commissioner Kelly Girtz shared some thoughts on residential speeding and traffic calming.
- I'm not alone in picking on Kos, as Andre picks up on his new obsession with Georgia.
- Bill Shipp: It's hot, so we don't need no stinking leadership.
- Folks can trump out the tired experience card all they want, but Barack Obama makes more and more sense when it comes to matters of foreign policy, which is something Matthew Yglesias alluded to here.
- As much as I would like to see expanded service at Ben Epps Airport, Athens-Clarke County Manager Alan Reddish is right on the money on this thing. Not only are small airports across the region closing up shop, it is important to remember that we're just an hour away from the busiest airport in the U.S. in Atlanta, as well as an hour-and-a-half away from one in Greenville-Spartanburg. One has to think folks, as of now, are content with those options.
- Since we're a little more than a week away from kickoff, I like Kyle's smackdown of South Carolina right here.
posted by Jmac at 7:51 AM
2 Comments:
Couple of quick thoughts here.
Re Shipp:
I find it very amusing/interesting how state level politics has turned into a year round thing.
Used to the Lege would come to town, party at the Henry Grady, leave town, the gov would some new laws.
By the time you got to July, absolutely nothing was happening, politics-wise. Richardson's tax proposal would have been met with a big yawn.
Then football started, people started getting together and talking, and then your school won and you were mellow and satisfied with the state of the state, or your school lost, and it was all the fault of the current regime, and by the time football was over, the lege was back in town.
No such thing as full contact politics 24/7.
Although as a sometimes Democrat, I have to wonder about the "one party, one mind, one agenda" idea that the Republicans pledged would be the state of the state when they took over.
Re: the airport.
I used to fly commercially out of Athens. It was convenient especially for north/south trips (Washington, NY) because there were a lot of flights leaving Charlotte.
This of course was before TSA. The convenience was incredible. park right in front of the terminal 10 minutes before your flight left, walk through check in directly to your plane. No parking fee, no death march through miles of parking lot, life was good.
This routine led to some bizarre flights, such as flying to Charlotte to go to Miami, because it was cheaper than going through Atlanta. This was in the good old days when you could find deals on "legs" of flights. Oh well, time passes.
Then if became so incredibly expensive that even the convenience did not justify the time/expense trade off. With all the TSA crap, it became more efficient to drive for many regional trips.
Also in the list of regional commercial airports is Augusta.
I think the quest for expanded commercial service ignores the fact that a large part of the flying public refuses to ride "puddle jumpers", even if there was one leaving every hour for free.
How many people remember Kenny Rogers offer to extend the runway at no cost to the county to a length that would accommodate commercial jets fully loaded?
re: the airport.
There are three reasons it doesn't perform well:
1. The schedules suck.
2. It's expensive. Too expensive to justify #1.
3. UGA employees are required to use a carrier that DOES NOT FLY THERE.
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