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There are a lot of long time residents, many in rented homes in that area. Sounds like you are proposing some type of gentrification of the area? Greenville could work to create with some public/ private partnership, much in the way that other nearby renewal efforts have undergone. I'm hesitant to just move in different people. There are some real issues with affordable housing, and some real social stresses with rising downtown costs pushing out long time poorer residents, areas that need to be treaded lightly and with some wisdom.

I get the feeling that schools like Winthrop or the College of Charleston need to up their endowment considerably in order to have greater national recognition.

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Colleges are notorious for being close to any kind of public introspective. Are the rankings criteria flawed, sure, I'd be surprised if they weren't. But I'll take that over what Dr. Shi and many other prefer when it comes to putting sunshine on their institutions.

They were all released last week. College of Charleston, Winthrop, The Citadel, Converse, Presbyterian, etc. were ranked in one category or another: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews....index_brief.php Here was a front page Greenville News article from last week: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs....D=2007708170323

It's huge, but on a neighborhood level: Traveler's Rest or Southside or Eastside. Spartanburg and Anderson have multiple districts, and fewer high schools, so the schools are bigger, but the aggregate numbers are similar. In Texas, or even in more rural parts of S. Carolina, an entire town will go to a school's games, but I'll stand by what I said. If you want to see your neighborhood on the ground level, a high school game is the easiest way to get in touch with it.

On the bright side, we're just a couple of years away from major retirement and medical benefits coming through with baby boom state employee retirement about to it, so we got that going for us. Yep, state's usual MO.

The new state budget went into effect on July 1st. It was created with certain assumptions about the economy. A record level of tax revenues has been brought in, in fact we would be running at a surplus for last year's budget, but.... the legislature passed a budget with higher than expected revenues, that have not come in. So in some state budget expenditures, they are not cut, but just the rate of increase has been stalled, or promised money for projects that has already started isn't coming yet, and may not this year. It's like buying a new car when you think you're getting a $10K raise and officially find out later you're only getting a $7,500 raise, spending the money before we have it. It's hard to say what this means for the economy, because the private sector is growing overall.

Perhaps one of the greatest community events has started again in the area: high school football Friday night football. I've often said if you really want to get to know a community, especially in this part of the country, go to the nearest high school Friday night football game, even if you don't care about the game, or don't know anyone at the school. You'll probably learn more about your neighborhood and people in it, than just about any other activity around.

Not unusual, especially this time of year. He'll probably get called up again in September when rosters get expanded to 40 men. Teams often call up a guy to test him out, so he can get his first game out of the way, to spell a 4th or 5th pitcher a game, etc. Probably just about every MLB is doing the same thing this time of year, and Boston, a team virtually assured of making the playoffs can afford to tinker with the line up a bit.

GE Power Systems is headquartered in an office complex in Marietta, GA off I75 near Atlanta. It's not moving anytime soon. Sounds like GE is just looking for office space/ cube farm for its engineers. That plant went through some major layoffs in 2002/2003. I'd expect they would be very careful about constructing office space. Sounds like they are just looking for some leasing agreements in the Garlington Road area, especially so that the engineers can be close to the labs there. Could be wrong though...

I think available and that space is a fungible term. Has it ever been figured out who owns it?

And of course the biggie, the old Woolworth building.

I think you'll find Stephen Jones' Presidency a lot different from his father and grandfather's.

Oh, speaking of Winthrop, I found a digital copy of the Winthrop master plan for campus reorganization on my hard drive. I don't remember where I got it, so I can't link to it, but here it is anyhow as any attachment. This is probably the biggest reorganization of campus at least in the last 70 years, if not ever. Winthrop_MasterPlan.pdf

I noticed on the wall of the Port City Java next to the ballpark that the 1927 Greenville Spinners (champions of the South Atlantic League that year) wore uniforms similar in design to the green "Greenville" throw back uniform, even the green hat with a capital "G" is the same as the '27 SAL League champion Spinners.

Well, I don't know about this specifically, but I know folks who work at market research firms and have clients in business, non profit, and government to do that sort of work. Even Sen. Demint got his start at his own market research firm off of Laurens road.

Is the Clothing Warehouse a non specialty store? I thought it was one of those vintage clothing places?

Just curious, but why take kids to Chief's? Doesn't seem like the most kid friendly place. I think I went once there about 10 years ago. Sounds like it has improved a little bit.

As far as I know, the historical statues downtown were privately built and organized,; but once they were dedicated, the maintenance was turned over to the city, along with the immediate spot of land around them.

Well, it was built long prior to the jet age, but it has handled passenger/ commercial operations in the past before GSP. But jets no much smaller than a regional jet land there all the time.

Dowtown airport could have handled the Continental regional jet easily.

Ron Paul is laissez faire in everything, including allowing his supporters to define him. Supporters in this case being the libertarian/ populist part of the GOP. An internet forum does not a candidacy make.

Schlotzsky's had some franchise operators in the Greenville area that ended up either losing interest in the business or not doing a good job of operating it.

It's only open at lunch hours during the week, it looks closed most of the time, which makes it easy to mistake for a closed business.