Couple of things

- Looks like Northeast Georgia has been spared the worst, and I even see the sun shining faintly out my window.

- Really? Another non-profit? Have we learned nothing from the pleas of local officials, non-profit professionals and other various players from across the community? Why in the world are we adding another competitor to a more than saturated non-profit marketplace, particularly when it is going to do nothing but duplicate existing services? Why are we fighting over shrinking funds rather than pooling our efforts to raise money in a common purpose type of way?

- Though he hasn't officially filed yet, Rep. Paul Broun has drawn a challenger in the 2010 Republican primary.

- This is a mess ... primarily because no one outside of a handful of folks wanted this tennis center, thus suggesting this whole ordeal ought to be a lesson in how not to recommend SPLOST projects to the public. Regardless, now it's gotta go somewhere, and no one wants it in their backyard. Compounding problems is if Athens-Clarke County has to acquire property to build the center, that's gonna chew up all the available funding ... thus meaning the center would have to be reapproved by the voters as part of the next round of SPLOST projects. Fun. Lots of fun.