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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Health Care Here and Now: If it's Wednesday,
July 29 and you're already reading this fish-
wrapper, keep in mind that tonight's the night
for the "Health Care Town Hall" hosted by
Organizing for America—Athens, downtown at
Cin§. The casual part of the event (with food!)
begins at 5 p.m., and the party later may go
on all night, but the heart of the program is
the panel-discussion-and-more running from
7-9 p.m. Panelists include Mayor Davison,
Athens Regional hospital CEO Jack Drew, other
local health professionals and a UGA prof too.
Learn more and RSVP at http://ofarsvp.us, and
keep an eye out for more activity from these
organizers this fall. City Dope, meantime, will
remain optimistic that th# recent perfect
game thrown by a pitcher for Obama's own
White Sox will turn out in the end to have
been an omen of success in the President's
health-care push. This is America, right?
More Sports-'n-Politics: It is one thing to
prognosticate politically based on such sto
ries as sports', but it is another purposefully
to drag matters of such importance into the
political realm. Of course, City Dope wonders
how much forethought went into state Senator
John Douglas's recent pronouncement to the
city council in his town, nearby Social
Circle, that he wants to see about
bringing the Georgia-Florida game to
Athens as economic leverage in the
ongoing tri-state water war. Either
way, the idea's stupidity caught it an
editorial page headline or two across
the state last week for columns which
were quick to point out how much
benefit the Jacksonville game brings
to southeast Georgia, as well as how
counterproductive the idea's raw un
neigh borii ness is. In the broad view,
the little anecdote is another reality
check for us Georgians on the level of
political sophistication with which our
state legislators operate: good tidings
for the future of the water wars, eh?
And Then There's the Guv: But if
we can rag on legislators for their
approach to water matters, it's
Governor Sonny Perdue who takes the
cake for both diplomacy and leader
ship. Capitol Impact's Tom Crawford
reported July 23 that the Guv "said
flatly Thursday he will not ask the
General Assembly to pass any legisla
tion that would require more efforts by
businesses and individuals to reduce
their consumption of water from Lake
Lanier." One email forwarder of Crawford's
article aptly likened Perdue's stance to that of
George Wallace in the face of desegregation.
It also belies what must be an understanding
on Perdue's part that earlier, earnest invest
ments in water efficiency—not so much about
conservation by individuals and businesses as
about the tightening-up of municipal water
systems—could realistically have prevented a
considerable piece of the heartache now. But
why admit a mistake when you can stand in
the door and keep shouting down progress?
Local Food News: Here's a quick note to con
gratulate all the winners of the second annual
^Athens Local Food Awards, coordinated by
PLACE and announced July 25 at the Athens
Farmers' Market. PLACE presented awards to
Full Moon Farm for Excellence on the Farm, to
Jason Mann for Excellence in Education,.to the
market itself in the business category, and to
ACC Commissioner Doug Lowry for advocacy.
Lowry highlighted the link between green-
space preservation and robust local farms even
in campaigning for his District 1 seat three
years ago, so it's good to see him recognized
now—and, perhaps, encouraged to put those
thoughts more firmly into policy.
While on the topic, City Dope owes his sin
cere thanks to all who've constructively par
ticipated in the recent discussion on Flagpole's
Letters page and at Flagpole.com about the
market and, well, coffee. On the plus side, this
difficult conversation has been a needed one
as Athens' local food scene continues to grow,
and it is to the great credit of farmers' market
board members, 1000 Faces Coffee, Jittery
Joe's and many of our readers for respect
fully realizing such—even in the face of the
pointless nastiness which made its way into
the conversation, as so often happens on that
dang old internet.
The Downtown Dish: It looks to be worth
marking your calendars for the Federation of
Neighborhoods meeting on Monday, Aug. 3 at
7:30 p.m. at the old Fire Hall No. 2, corner of
Prince Avenue and Hill Street.
The topic of the night's panel discussion
is "how downtown Athens will continue to
change over the coming years"—socially,
physically, economically and so forth. Now's a
good time, too, with new projects like Hotel
Indigo coming online and the earliest begin
nings of a downtown masterplanning process
in the works. City Dope doesn't have a list
of panelists, but does have indications of a
broadly composed group "representing the
public and private sectors as well as residents
and non-profit community groups." As prelude
to what promises to be a good discussion, this
writer humbly recommends Kevan Williams'
Athens Rising columns on the topic of down
town in June and July, as well as Leon Galis's
touching and insightful "Ode to Downtown"
on the back page of this very week's Flagpole.
Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com
Sure, it’s been pictured in this space before, but it’s one of
those little local things worth celebrating: ACC crews are back
at work unearthing the old brick sidewalks along Hancock
Avenue just west of downtown. The sidewalks look great, too.
4 FLAGPOLE.COM-JULY29, 2009