Photo Courtesy of the New York Times

There’s a great, colorful article on the front page of today’s New York Times, detailing the mixed emotions of quarantined, flu-stricken students in Emory’s Turman South dorm.

Sounds like the reporter even ventured inside.

The Ox has responded to an outraged Inman Park.   Hot out of the Fresh Loaf oven…

“I love East Atlanta, Morningside, Grant Park, Inman Park and that entire wonderful part of our great state,” said Oxendine. “But I know we must find a way to move Georgia forward towards “greener” roads, mass transit, light rail—every option must be on the table.”

I can only assume he means covering all the roads in sod, but that sounds rather expensive.

As Wheatley points out in his analysis of the statement, though there’s little chance this bypass would ever be built, it’s win-win for the Ox, who already has little support on the blue-tinted east side of the metro.  Pissing off Atlanta earns major brownie points with the rest of the state.  Politicking at its finest.

Too bad it doesn’t work the other way around…”Hey rest o’ Georgia, Atlanta needs all your property to create a massive metro parking lot!”

Here’s the other half of the list sent to me by the city: the candidates who paid their $35 to run for CSD school board.

At-Large – Valarie D. Wilson  (incumbent) Robert H. Pope,  Elizabeth A. Hagberg, Carla Melissa Anderson

School Board Dist 1 - Marc J. Wisniewski  (incumbent), Judith Lomas, Garrett Goebel, Alan Greenberg

School Board Dist 2 – Bernadette J. Seals (incumbent), Stephan Yurman, Dr. Catherine W Carter, Mildred Thompkins

Bryan Alexander writes in with this report from Sir Harold Evans keynote yesterday evening…

Is Bookzilla a dinosaur, an extinct species rolling over in his grave, praying for his footnote in the history of communication?

The Sir Harold Evans event at the Chapel in Agnes Scott’s Presser Hall had the feel of old home week, or whatever it’s called when the mothers and fathers and grandfolks of yore come together to reminisce. First there was this old guy (not Sir Harold) in the college’s parking deck who had a most dense and drooping handlebar mustache. Then we parked next to a little car that was covered with mossy green mildew, and had apparently died there in the parking garage so long ago. (I kid you not that there were issues of the AJC from the Bush administration heaped in the passenger seat.) Finally, there was the audience: average age of 65. A woman was knitting in row 4. Everyone had arrived 20 minutes early. Need I go on?

No, no, I like old . . . books. And Sir Harold is one of them. They’re polite and they’re also feisty. And they remember back when things were done a different way, and they warn us real good that a lot of the stuff they liked to do had great value. We had better not screw up and forget it.

Newspapers were great, he said. Foreign reporting was great. Investigative journalism was great. Reading about things you didn’t realize interested you was great. Never forget it. That’s feisty.

Who was responsible for getting rid of these things? Which generation?

Bottom line for Sir Harold is that it’s so important to preserve high quality newspapers that he’s willing to advocate the use of digital technology to make it possible, namely, through print-on-demand. You will have a high-quality printer in your home that will print the newspaper when you want it. This has the feel of placing one’s finger in that crumbling dyke with the hope of preventing the flood. He himself reads books on a Kindle.