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[Coming to your town, as long as it is approved in triplicate by the other 341 planning entities.]

1. This weekend is the 2008 Share the Road Bicycle Ride.  It’s goal is to promote a safe passing law in Georgia.  No worries, you can still flip us off as you provide a wide berth.
2. Grant Park Summer Shade Festival is this weekend.  We preferred when the festival didn’t coincide with Georgia’s home opener.
3. East Atlanta’s Gravity Pub was recently featured in Maxim Magazine for having the “most awesomely disgusting bar food.”  It is recognition, but it comes from Maxim, so, we’re confused as to whether it is a good thing.
4. Crescent Moon reverting to its original owners?
5. Lake Lanier may be up by over three feet by the end of next week.
6. Trader Joe’s goes to Buckhead, but not Decatur.  Decatur Metro says this stems from their desire to “open a huge store in a sea of parking and be the only funky outlet for millions of decidedly un-funky people.”
7. Please file under believe it when we see it.  A transportation plan calling for hundreds of miles of rail has been approved by one the regions 342 various planning bodies.  The Business Chronicle has the details on Concept 3.
8. The AJC writes an interesting article on in-town migration and then ruins it by calling Atlantic Station the “grandfather of infill projects.”  Blech.
9. Clayton County Schools………..fail.  That is all.

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