Morning Metro: Looking Back at Pete, Arts Coalition Becomes Part of ARC, and Adding Dirt to Diets
Decatur Metro | June 25, 2012 | 9:35 am- Pete the Cat Retrospective at the Seen Gallery [Patch]
- ARC on track to absorb Atlanta Arts & Culture Coalition [Saporta]
- Sandy Springs gets featured in the [NYT]
- Study: High-Speed trains feasible in the South [AJC]
- Poem: On the Disadvantages of Central Heating – Amy Clampitt [poems.org]
- Let’s add a little dirt to our diets [NYT]
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NYT story was surprisingly shallow on the topic, currently the subject of much public policy research, about the question of what a community loses when it gives up the capacity to do things for itself. The story cites, briefly, one of the drawbacks encountered in California, but the issue goes much deeper. It’s hard to imagine a government run like Sandy Springs’ developing the sort of initiatives that Decatur’s has, adding so much to the quality of life and economic vitality of the community. Of course, a suburb without a core is a different kind of community, and generic services at the lowest cost may be exactly what the people who choose to live there want. But for some of us, where we live is more than just a place to sleep and park our cars.