Mike's Greater Athens Area Blog and Then Some

I was reading a blog post earlier and came upon this statement in the comments: judging by his statment that it was not his religion, do we maybe think he might have been a racist? Perhaps, if you pay attention to the news, you have also heard this term mis-used, from those who disagree with the ...

St Jude Children Hospital is a wonderful cause and organization. You may have seen some commercials on TV with Captain Sullenburger of the plane on the Hudson fame asking for support. This coming Monday, Sept. 27, you can enjoy a meal and not feel guilty about those calories. Chili's will be dona...

Bernie Marcus, one of the founders of Home Depot is featured in an interview from one of the reporters of a local Atlanta TV station. He is not kind to this administration, nor to Bush, with his analysis and insight into how small business owners are being hurt. He points out that Home Depot coul...

Yep, they are cute? Yep, the are wonderful. And yep, they have been saddled with a tremendous debt that by the time you finish reading this will have gone up. Their individual share of the debt of this nation, not future unfunded obligations, like social security, medicaid and pensions, but curre...

The Obama Administration Justice Department is appealing the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse a decision by a three judge panel that overturned the conviction and life sentence of a cocaine dealer because a GPS device was placed on his vehicle which was then trac...

The following charts show the month to month residential real estate sales volume of the Greater Athens Ga metropolitan area for the months of July 2009 through August 2010. Sales volume of residential real estate has decreased in August for the third consecutive month. The August decrease of 34...

It appears that the city of Rock Hill, S.C. is threatening to cut off water to residents in unicorporated areas that are resisting annexation. Apparantly the city put in the water infrastructure at the developers request when the sub-divisions were built with the option to annex the areas at a la...

Livability.com has just rated Athens Ga as the second best college town in the country to live. Using a variety of rating criteria, such as quality of education, quality of live both for students and non-students, culture, etc. the top 10 college towns in the country are listed. Athens, located ...

It was called the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act of 2009. It cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 Trillion (with interest added in). We were told it would create up to 5,000,000 jobs in the U.S. and keep unemployment below 8%. Well, we all know how that worked. And here is a good example of why w...

Matt Listro wrote a blog post about the new credit card rules for 18 - 21 year olds. Basically, in order for members of that age group to get a credit card, they need a co-signer, unless they can show proof of employment. Granted, this was a knee-jerk over reaction to the targeting of that age gr...