Atlanta Blogs Today: Bad design, cowardly donkeys, noble causes February 19 2008

Yet the Buckhead library is a likely casualty of the ongoing movement to transform Buckhead into Alpharetta. Seems you can't have enough mixed-use developments.

— ATLMalcontent has an excellent piece about Atlanta's stagnant architecture scene posted at his wicked den of diatribes. He, like several others, bemoans the possible loss of the Buckhead Library.

I just don't get it. We've got the Republican leadership wanting to raise taxes on 174 services, increase the sales tax and essentially nickel and dime us to death. Imagine being a small service business owner and having to deal with collecting taxes now. What a mess. I see NO focused opposition to this from the DPG, caucus or the county parties.

— sndeak at Tondee's Tavern wonders why the Democratic Party of Georgia and local parties haven't shown a little outrage and backbone over the outlandish tax hikes businesses and customers across the state would see with the More-Subpar-Than-GREAT tax plan, the mutated dungeon baby of House Speaker Glenn Richardson.

Even if you are not an avid biker looking to further personalize your dangerously cool lavender fixed-speed vintage bike, this will probably be a neat place to pick up tiny original works of art for your desk or elsewhere!

— Christa at Pecanne Log spreads the word about a call for art from Octane, a great coffee shop and office-away-from-the-office for one editor of a local alt-weekly. The java joint will auction off "spoke cards" April 12 to raise money for a bicycle-maintenance shop on a coffee farm in Rwanda.