Couple of things

- As Dan Lorentz notes, our liveblog is slated for Thursday. We'll first be at Walker's Pub from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., and then at Trappeze from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. If you're an elected official, come on by and share your thoughts with us. If you're a loyal reader eager to see the magic happen in real-time, swing through. If you've got a cause to promote or event to tout, drop by and introduce yourself.

- Speaking of Dan, he's got a link to an article on the role of urbanism these days.

- I'd like to care more about the raw milk stuff ... but I don't.

- This is good for a variety of reasons. Obviously, there's the visual benefit to removing blighted properties, and there's the fact that you're removed a likely haven for crime. In addition, the public sector took on the cost of demolishing the property and now is reopening it for renovation and rebuilding. It would be nice to see some sort of incentive program put in to place that would encourage developers to re-utilize these cleared spaces once the buildings come down.