Morning Metro: Melton’s Pledges to Reopen, OTPers Find Downtown Safer and 24 Hours at Empire State South
Decatur Metro | November 28, 2011- Melton’s pledges to reinvent itself and reopen after hearing from passionate patrons [Saporta Report]
- More Atlanta ‘burbanites feel safer downtown today than in 2002 [11Alive]
- John Kessler goes on a juice fast and gets the vapors [AJC Food and More]
- Agnes Scott now diverts 73% of its waste from landfills, up 45 points from 3 years ago [AJC]
- Why our water bills must go up [Atlantic Cities]
- Apparently it might snow tomorrow [AJC]
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“I will eat anything, and I do eat anything — often quite a bit of it.”
I would be curious to know how much he spent, the specialized juices for fasting can go into the hundreds if you purchase them. How about just easing up on the alcohol, and not cleaning your plate at every meal? Everyone is searching for a way to get to a higher spiritual/mental/health level but you don’t need anything to get you to there. Make quiet time, eat/drink thoughtfully with purpose, let your body handle the rest. No need for a juice fast.
Yay for Melton’s reopening!
That was quite a rush hour at Empire State South.
Lunch looks relaxing. Dinner looks exciting. Would have to make sure my energy level was up to it!
On the burbites feeling safe.
The article states that people are getting less information from print media and more from the web. I imagine that they are not reading the crime blotter and the other easy news that crime makes, so they are not deluged with stories that make for an impression of unsafe downtown.
Who knew there would be an upside to the end of newspapers.
For the first couple years we lived in Decatur, my mother-in-law (who was born and raised in Carroll County) would call us seemingly every day saying, “I saw on the news that someone was shot/stabbed/raped/carjacked/shortchanged in Dekalb County and I just wanted to make sure you were alright.” It took us a while to convince her that Dekalb County is, in fact, a pretty big place with a lot of people and that it is possible that much violent crime happens within its boundaries that we neither know of nor worry much about.
The ironic postscript is now I see similar reports from Carroll County and I feel like giving her a call.
Boy, I find web news to be even more sensational than newspapers. Plus you can easily click from one source to another, all of which are reporting on the same few facts about a breaking story, but seems like a big deal because you just read the story on 20 different websites–all over the country!
My cynical guess is that as crime moves out to the McMansions and foreclosures result in weeds growing in the McLawns, they do not feel so safe and isolated out there anymore and the contrast with Downtown no longer seems so large.
On a serious note, I know of at least 5 former Melton regulars who swear they will never eat there again. They cannot get past the idea of rats in the kitchen.
I hope the owner considered the weight of this bad pr in his reopening calculations.
According to the owner, it was the unexpected flood of requests from regulars to reopen, along with their pledges to return, that convinced him to go for it.