Couple of things
- It's been a busy week with IHN of Athens, work and my mom in town (which is a good thing), but it's limited my blogging time. I'll try to catch up somewhat.
- Sure ... his 'friend' was 'too shy' ...
- Not that I particularly enjoy seeing fees passed on to consumers, and Lord knows I scour our phone bill each month to see what fees I could live without, but this makes sense and seems only fair, doesn't it? It isn't as if there is some other 911 service which Internet phone users partake in.
- In the good news department, Gov. Sonny Perdue still doesn't like the Glenn Tax. In the non-connected-to-reality department, Glenn Richardson's spokesperson says the Glenn Tax will give local governments more control.
- Carol Goerig has a well-intentioned, albeit misinformed, letter regarding developers overbuilding Athens-Clarke County. As Nicki pointed out in the comments here, there really isn't a whole heckuva lot you can do to stop them. If developers meet the existing ordinances and requirements to build, then, well, they can build.
- It's a couple of days old, but I want to echo Athens Politics regarding Bill Shipp's column from Sunday ... namely that it would be nice if he actually knew what he was talking about. Specifically I'm speaking of the fact that he said Barack Obama was leading in Georgia when, in fact, Hillary Clinton is doing so. Now while I would like Obama to be ahead in the polls, I also have enough common sense to, you know, not just make up stuff so it neatly fits into what I want write about.
- Rumor has it that it's already looking for a new wife.
- Sure ... his 'friend' was 'too shy' ...
- Not that I particularly enjoy seeing fees passed on to consumers, and Lord knows I scour our phone bill each month to see what fees I could live without, but this makes sense and seems only fair, doesn't it? It isn't as if there is some other 911 service which Internet phone users partake in.
- In the good news department, Gov. Sonny Perdue still doesn't like the Glenn Tax. In the non-connected-to-reality department, Glenn Richardson's spokesperson says the Glenn Tax will give local governments more control.
- Carol Goerig has a well-intentioned, albeit misinformed, letter regarding developers overbuilding Athens-Clarke County. As Nicki pointed out in the comments here, there really isn't a whole heckuva lot you can do to stop them. If developers meet the existing ordinances and requirements to build, then, well, they can build.
- It's a couple of days old, but I want to echo Athens Politics regarding Bill Shipp's column from Sunday ... namely that it would be nice if he actually knew what he was talking about. Specifically I'm speaking of the fact that he said Barack Obama was leading in Georgia when, in fact, Hillary Clinton is doing so. Now while I would like Obama to be ahead in the polls, I also have enough common sense to, you know, not just make up stuff so it neatly fits into what I want write about.
- Rumor has it that it's already looking for a new wife.
posted by Jmac at 8:31 AM
5 Comments:
FYI, there was a Strategic Vision poll on the Georgia primary that came out a day or two ago. According to the poll, Clinton is at 34%, Obama 25%, Edwards 13%, Richardson 8%, and Biden 5%. All other candidates get less than 5%.
Hey JMac, any particular reason why your links are staying pegged to the very bottom of the page? Just curious and don't know diddly about blog mechanics . . .
David
I don't know ... I'm going to go into the template and play around with it. My home computer has them do that, but my work one does not.
It all happened after I added the podcasts ...
I love Carol but, as you've sorta pointed out, she is as misinformed and confused as most people in thinking that the Mayor and Commission have to approve every development, house, building, business, etc. that pops up around here.
One major reason for having clearly defined zoning ordinances is so that folks don't have to jump through hoops if they are building according to the existing zoning requirements - they can just get on with their business and the Mayor and Commission doesn't even have to be informed about them because it doesn't come before them.
This reminds me of a letter that Heidi got from a child in one of the elementary school classes that she spoke to (these letters are great to read!) and it said something like "also, please tell your workers to stop building all those apartments". I honestly think that there are probably lots of adults who think that somehow the city government is directly responsible for building all this stuff.
As an aside, if you own any stock in banks or lending institutions, you should check what kind of development stuff they are financing right now - some of these banks are bound to fail and the ones that don't fail are not going to be very good investments for a while.
Al
(BTW - nobody takes polls from SV seriously)
On the 911 fee, Alan Brown dances around it, but the "enhanced 911" for VOIP only shows the billing address on the account. You can't get the full benefit of 911 with VOIP, so it is a debatable question about how "fair" it is to charge those users full freight.
The $1.50 charge for wireless phones pays for a system that provides the latitude and longitude of a 911 caller's location.
I'd like an update on this too. Last thing I read, this system had not been widely installed, and was not being used by the PD. Seems like it depended on the cell companies upgrading their technology and they had been dragging their feet.
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