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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Some Needed Leeway: One of the details to
emerge at a charrette on the Classic Center
expansion project last Saturday (see this
week's Pub Notes) was that the county-owned
parcel of land across Hancock Avenue from the
CC's current exhibit hall is not large enough
to accommodate 50,000 square feet of exhi
bition area along with the required kitchen,
service, circulation and pre-function spaces on
the same level. Since the
project's design team appar
ently isn't authorized to
consider the acquisition of
additional land, that would
seem to leave only designs
that "bridge" Hancock—
which, we've been told,
would be prohibitively
expensive—as alternatives
to closing the street.
But ACC Commissioner
Kelly Girtz says he will
instruct the design team
to pursue an option that
might make locating the
whole 4,500-capacity facil
ity on the north side of .
Hancock more feasible.
Partially in response to a
proposal by Flagpole’s Kevan
Williams, Girtz has spoken
with the developers of a
planned hotel immediately
to the west of the county
property about the pos
sibility of footprint-sharing
between the hotel and the
expansion. He says they're
interested in the idea of sharing parking and
loading space, and he'll communicate that to
the design team with the suggestion that they
consider it in their plans.
Will that be enough to keep the expansion
from sealing off Hancock? Ain't no telling. But
it's a step toward opening up the rulebook a
little in what so far has appeared, despite the
adoption of a much-needed public input stage,
to be a pretty narrowly prescribed design
process.
Heidi Hiding from Hideous Ham Hocks: This
just in from Taste of Athens Committee mem
ber Judy Long: the celebrity judges for this
year's local food extravaganza (Sunday, Feb.
20 at—you guessed it!—the Classic Center)
will be former Athens mayors Gwen O'Looney
and Doc Eldridge, and the current one, Nancy
Denson. Heidi Davison, whom Denson suc
ceeded merely a month ago, was invited to
Local capitalist Warren Blackmon (I) makes a contribution to Pete
McCommunist, titular (non-playing) chairman of The McCommunists, the
Flagpole band seeking victory in the finals of the Nugi’s Space "Athens
Business Rocks” battle of the bands Feb. 19 at the 40 Watt Club.
"I just didn’t want the McCommunists to win without admitting they
needed some capitalist help.” Blackmon said.
“From each according to his ability.” McCommunist replied, “and to
each according to her need, especially Flagpole, y’all.”
All contributions support Nugi’s Space: www.athensbusinessrocks.com.
participate but had to decline because her
vegetarianism would have rendered her unable
to weigh in on the festival's meatier offerings.
"She said she would do anything else that
we ask of her," Long explains. Let's hope that
doesn't include raffling off her prized deco
rative pigeon; she's having enough trouble
meeting the ransom demands of newsman/
bearded villain Blake Aued for its safe return.
Dave Marr news@flagpole.com
Krazy Korner
Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. has had a busy couple weeks.
Mere’s some of what Broun has done for you lately:
• Broun introduced his bill to repeal the last year’s health care
law and replace it with four "market based solutions, such as allow
ing individuals to shop for health care across state lines." Like that's
been the problem all alonfe, that 1 can't get some of that Alabama
Insurance. Broun’s bill would reinstate the ability of insurance corpora
tions to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. But the bill would cre
ate "high-risk pools” for those rare humans who become ill. Could there be
anything less inviting than "high-risk poof?” Sounds like a scary place to swim.
• Broun’s name made headlines around the country after he tweeted during
President Obama’s State of the Union Address, "Mr. President, you don’t believe in
the Constitution. You believe in socialism.” Broun has around 3,700 followers on his
Twitter account. Here's hoping that none of that number are Jared Loughner types who
are just crazy enough to believe in Broun. Think about it: if one were to actually believe
all of what Broun has said about the President to this point (and some certainly do),
wouldn't it make a certain amount of sense to pursue—hmm, how to put it—emer
gency measures against Obama?
• And Broun made his annual call for submissions to the 2011 Congressional Art
Contest. The contest is limited to students in grades nine through twelve, which I feel
to be needlessly discriminatory, so I’m entering. Imagine, if you will, a canvas full of
old-ish white people shooting guns, overlaid by bald eagle, also shooting a gun, all of
which overlaid by the text "taxes are for communists," spoken by another eagle. You
will be able to see my work hanging in the U.S. Capitol once I win. [Matthew Pulver]
4 FlAGPOLE.COM • FEBRUARY 16.2011
KELLY RUBERTO
