Gee, I wonder which downtown interest group just had their snout removed from the ESPLOST trough?

Who, oh who, could it be? http://www.tribune-georgian.com/articles/2009/03/06/news/top_stories/2topstory3.6.txt Funding a public park in downtown St. Marys for the enjoyment of the general public (in theory) should never have been funded by the school board to begin with. I suspect that in more prosperous times in the future, such a park may well come to pass. The proper funding vehicle would be, at least in part, a regular SPLOST after the soon-to-be-passed ESPLOST has expired in five years. In the meantime, perhaps the DMA can hold a few fundraisers to help offset the cost of their future park. But, on another matter, did you notice that a careful reading of the article reveals that the students to fill the new brick-and-mortar, wheelless schools ALREADY EXIST, are already in the system, and attending in portables strewn all over the county? We don't need to wait for the student population to grow, as some non-analytical, anti-progess, anti-intellectual, alarmists are claiming. If you did not pick up on that, please re-read it. The need is here, NOW.