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I'm sure George developed a very thorough understanding of the "issue of major civic concern" at hand in his two weeks in the city. Bravo!

So, who composes this editorial voice, exactly, do you know?

I have no doubt that the convention center is going to happen. I just think it's hilarious that, at a moment in the city when kids can't get school books until they're almost a month into classes, when parts of downtown had to be shut down all last week to deal with our hundred year old infrastructure, when we face an enormous budget shortfall, when people who work for the city are losing their jobs, the paper says, basically, "Well, if we have no bread, let us eat cake."

Kevin, yes, I know that and you know that. But imagine, for a moment, how that's going to play out to struggling voters.

"Why did you vote to spend my tax money on a convention center when my kid didn't have school books for a month and my husband got laid off?"

"Well, ma'am, it's very complex. Money for the convention center could only go to the convention center..."

"Why?"

"It's a state law."

"Really? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of."

I mean, please, most voters are not going to want to hear that crap.

I'm not opposed to the center. I'm not for it. I thought it was a done deal the minute they decided on it unless Gaylord could come up with something big enough to derail it, which they obviously have not.

But for proponents to act like people who haven't been paying attention to the intricacies of this whole thing are going to be okay with this is just a little hilarious.

It's fine with me. Like I said, I don't really care one way or another.

But I'm a little baffled and amused that the pro-convention center people having considered how this is going to play out public-relations wise.

I hope for y'all's sake that there are a lot of jobs created very quickly.

Hmm. So, can anyone just declare themselves a member of the editorial board, then?

And what kind of power would an editorial board member have?

For instance, could a self-appointed editorial board member (perhaps a charming, yet troublesome Pith blogger) decree that George and Lind had to have daily jello wrestling matches?

Because I think I could drum up some public support for that.

Don't fly in the face of decades of jello wrestling tradition, JR. You'll have a bikini, like every other jello wrestler and those can just be washed in the sink.

I am concerned about the bow tie. I guess I'll approve dry-cleaning expenses for your bow ties.

They could open for "Jell-O Wrestling Expense Report."

There are five editors listed on the masthead of today's City Paper.

Stephen George - Editor
Vincent Troia - Managing Editor
Geert De Lombaerde - Business Editor
Sherry Phillips - News/Online Editor
Dana Kopp Franklin - Assistant Editor

If the editorial voice of the CP is a "loosely coalesced collection of the paper's editors" which of the above were in the "collection" this time?

Was anyone else other than the above involved?

Now hold on - I thought Kopp Franklin was only in charge of the Bites blog.

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