Couple of things

- You may be taking a boat to the game.

- Dan Matthews recaps the Watkinsville City Council meeting, and he talks about the success of the pouring permit in the downtown area.

- I'm not sure I can get behind the taxation of services, and I don't know how you can effectively handle the purchase of goods over the Internet (though the commission makes a valid point), but something needs to change. Personally, I'd like to see a more progressive income tax scale and more flexibility for local governments to control their forms of taxation. For instance, if Athens-Clarke County wants to levy a three percent sales tax to meet the revenue shortfall, it shouldn't need permission from a hostile state government to do so.

- Point taken, but I think the reason for the 'wait-and-see' approach is to effectively see if the economy turns around. If the federal or state government takes some action which bolsters consumer confidence and spurs sales, that will have a positive impact on the local budget and make much of this moot. Granted, such a dramatic change isn't likely, but the point is you often never know what's going to happen when it comes to the economy.