Fayette County is home to 106,000 folks.  DeKalb County is nearly 7 times that size and Fulton is nearly 10 times larger.  That said, how important is this?

[Fayette] county’s green landscape — offering a feeling of seclusion — has helped make Fayette the birthplace of opposition to paying an extra penny in sales tax for transportation improvements both in and out of the county. The 10-county region will vote in 2012 on whether to tax itself for such projects.

It’s a sentiment so strong that it recently helped unseat a County Commission chairman. And though Fayette is on the lower end of the region’s spectrum when it comes to sales tax revenue and number of voters, it could have extra influence in whether the referendum passes.

Harold Bost, who heads the county’s Issues Tea Party, is organizing opposition to the penny tax across the metro area.

Show me huge opposition turnouts at Bost’s events in Gwinnett and Cobb and then maybe I’ll start getting concerned.

So now that my wife and I are toting around a small child with a few decent chompers in his mouth, we’ve begun to get an informal lay-of-the-land of Decatur restaurants’ “kid options” – both on and off menu.

Now, when I say “kid options”, I don’t necessarily mean just stuff off the kids menu.  The only qualifiers are really that they can be consumed by a little monster without a lot of teeth and that they aren’t too spicy.

We’ve discovered a few good options thus far – Leon’s chickpeas and provolone are a perennial fav – but I’m wondering what else we may be overlooking.  And the healthier the better obviously!

P.S.  I know how much we all love the larger “kids in restaurants” conversation, but that’s not what this post is about so please try to refrain this time around.

It ain’t pretty (yet!), but the Emory Village roundabout opened without fanfare on Friday.

Though the most of the brick-paver crosswalks are in, there’s still a ton of work to be done on many other elements of the roundabout plan.  However, cars are now proceeding counterclockwise through the five-way intersection.  I drove through it a couple times over the weekend, and while I’m sure it will take a while to get acclimated to it – and hopefully it will seem less chaotic when all the surrounding projects are complete – I certainly enjoyed my quick loop around from Oxford to North Decatur.

And I didn’t even have to wait 5 minutes to do it!

Hoping to hear some other initial impressions. Especially anyone who’s navigated it through rush-hour.

From the DeKalb Library website…

Date: Saturday, May 28 2011, 9:00AM—3:00PM

The Friends of the Decatur Library will be hosting their annual Spring Book Sale on the front lawn of the library on Sycamore Street. All proceeds benefits the Decatur Library. If it rains that day, the sale will be inside the library.

Funding provided by The Friends of the Decatur Library.