Or, The Unemployed Cats Need Somewhere to Live Lest They Turn to a Life of Crime.

Somebody better bring some coyotes to the next Athens-Clarke Commission meeting, because commissioners have cats on the brain.

Tuesday night’s end-of-the-meeting round robin, for some reason, included a laundry list of all the housing reforms gathering dust on a shelf somewhere in the bowels of Dougherty Street. Mayor Heidi Davison mentioned recommendations from a county infill housing study, a law allowing in-law suites or granny flats recommended by Commissioner Andy Herod’s workforce housing committee and a Friends of Five Points’ McMansion study. What’s the Planning Department’s work schedule? she asked.

Pretty busy, considering everything the M&C piles on them, and it sounds like it’s about to get worse.

Then Commissioner Alice Kinman chimed in, asking to revisit a report by a TNR committee she chaired.

I just finished an interview with Rep. Paul Broun about the effectiveness of the stimulus act. More on that later, but the quotable Broun had a quip about the Obama Administration’s economic policies: “Voodoo economics,” he called them.

The phrase was originally coined by George H.W. Bush in the 1980 primary to describe supply-sider Ronald Reagan's fuzzy math. Broun defined it a bit differently.

“You have to be a dead man walking around with no soul to believe the economic ideas they’re putting forward,” he said.

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