Couple of things

- Good to see that Nuci's Space got a key to the city. Now, I wonder if they're going to charge 'em tax on it.

- I just don't really get a lot of the opposition to the parking deck, particularly the concerns over scale. Obviously, we all should have realized that a 520-space parking deck complete with commercial components incorporated into the design was going to be, you know, big. And, as Athens-Clarke County District Nine Commissioner Kelly Girtz noted, if the goal is to encourage denser populations in the urban core of the community, that's going to result in larger buildings ... and that's not a bad thing! We're not talking about putting the Empire State Building here, but rather a mixed-used development the community overwhelmingly approved in the last round of SPLOST projects. Getting all up in arms about it now is a tad revisionist, isn't it?

- And, to think, this editorial didn't even touch Katherine Harris's, er, Karen Handel's interference with Jim Powell's campaign or her decision to re-open qualifying for one election only to Republicans and not Democrats.

- I'd by curious to see the crime data ... I have some doubts.

- Lee Becker wraps up last night's Oconee County Commission meeting, and he focuses on the discussion of the ordinance that would restrict solicitation on public roads. I'm still partial to an outright ban, but I think what the commission is discussing here is a very strong compromise that would permit the practice in a limited, but fair way.

- The Interfaith Hospitality Network of Athens, an organization on whose board I used to serve, has opted to withdraw from the proposed Athens Resource Center for the Homeless, which is a component of the Navy School redevelopment.

- I don't disagree with David Ching, but I still think it's silly to put all this focus on a player who took his helmet off after the game.