You probably belong in ACAVE if you live in Augusta... because anyone who doesn't want to spend our tax dollars on scootching the GreenJackets' stadium over a few miles is a CAVE person. That's according to Mayor Deke Copenhaver in one of his [adjective redacted] guest columns for the Chronicle. Since about three quarters of Augusta folk seem to be against buying Cal Ripken a new stadium, Mayor Deke may have to abandon his charm offensive and just go for winning ugly. He's a determined Ironman and has announced that's he's looking into creative financing of some other kind of tax dollars which won't require a popular vote . I'm sure the creative financing will be painless, like plucking pennies out of a fountain .
Speaking of the Chronicle, one keyboard-punching cave dweller believes he may have stumbled onto the scent of a very vocal member of the upright citizens brigade. If you read the Chronicle online, you'll remember Countyman; he's the guy who talks like Rainman trying to sell a used car.
It's true, cave people read the paper. Partly because they get written about in the paper. (That may seem primitive, but, honestly, what's keeps you coming back to the mirror?) This week, Brad Owens' possible political aspirations are poo pooed by publisher Joe White, I mean the mysterious Insider, in this week's Metro Spirit. Hey, didn't Austin Rhodes used to be the Insider, back before he became a staunch critic of anonymity? Speaking of Austin, his current column is about a ride through Harrisburg with cave ladies, Sylvia Cooper (well, she was a member of the Facebook group until a pervert hacked her account persuading her to leave Facebook entirely) and Lori Davis, president of the Harrisburg association. Cave Lori was also mentioned in today's intriguingly-titled editorial about the pitchforking of City Administrator Fred Russell over his pay raises to department heads while city workers try to cope with layoffs, pay cuts, and loss of benefits and retirements. But he didn't step outside the lines drawn for him in the recent reorganization of government, he says somewhat eerily about himself in third person- "Fred Russell is not going to resign because Fred Russell has done what he was told to do." Will this opportunely-timed development lend weight to the reconstruction obstructionists' complaint that this was a change government that should have required eight votes instead of just the (gang of white) six that it got?
