The modern furniture company Agliest Collections is moving back to Decatur from Norcross into one of the ground floor retail spaces in the recently spruced up 127 East Trinity Place office building, according to Oakhurst Realty.  Via Twitter, they alert us DM folks…

Agilest Collections , a modern furniture and accessories retailer, to open at 127 E. Trinity Place http://bit.ly/abufcl

In a follow-up note, they project a late September opening.  Great to finally see some street-front retail in this building!

For those who don’t have every Trinity building address memorized, I point you again to my crappy – yet high-def! – video of the building after the jump.

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UPDATE II: According to AP, Paste’s Print Edition is dead.  The website and online components will live on.

UPDATE:  Damn, Wikipedia is already referring to it in the past tense.

Aw hell.  From Gawker…

We heard earlier today that Paste Magazine was in imminent danger of folding. Looks like it’s already happened.

A tipster tells us “They announced it internally yesterday in an afternoon meeting, giving employees approx… 2 hours notice.” Rough. A few (former) Paste editors took to Twitter:

I saw Rachel Maddux’s Tweet about needing work last night, but never followed up.  This is a sad flippin’ day.

Water Street + W. Trinity Place, Decatur, GA (pic submitted by Luis)

If you weren’t able to attend last night’s City Schools of Decatur Strategic Plan round-table, you can still chime in by taking the “Community Survey for City of Decatur Schools“.

Open-ended questions ask what should be changed/preserved in the current school system and what should be built upon and what is in need of improvement.  Multiple choice questions ask about CSD’s “top challenges” and the “top issues facing students today”.  You also have an opportunity to rate the school system “in the area of Support for Early Learning and Student Success”, staffing, governance, infrastructure and responsiveness to the community.

William Lind writes in The American Conservative that they should.  Here’s a snippet….

The perception that conservatives do not use public transportation is only one of the mistaken notions that has warped the Right’s position on transportation policy. Another is that the dominance of automobiles and highways is a free-market outcome. Nothing could be further from the truth. Were we to drop back 100 years, we would find that Americans were highly mobile. Their mobility was based on a dense, nationwide network of rail transportation: intercity trains, streetcars, and interurbans (the latter two electrically powered). Almost all of these rail systems were privately owned, paid taxes, and were expected to make a profit. But they were wiped out by massive government subsidies to highways. Today’s situation, where “drive or die” is the reality for most Americans, is a product of almost a century of government intervention in the transportation market.

Another misperception is that public transportation does not serve conservative goals.

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