Ben Holder's ear is hearing that Councilwoman Bellamy-Small's support for re-election might be eroding in some of the neighborhoods she represents.

After being a solid supporter of Bellamy-Small during the last election, I, too, have been completely underwhelmed with her performance on the Council.  Even though she has been an improvement over her predecessors - Rev. Belvin Jessup and Earl Jones - that wasn't real hard to accomplish.  I was hoping for much, much more.

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To all of you out there who have children, are having children or are thinking of doing so:  As soon as you receive your child's birth certificate, go down to the Jeff Thigpen's joint and have them run you off about 30 copies of the document - you are going to need them.

My kids are involved in all manner of activity that requires a copy of their birth cerificate and hopefully yours will be, too.  The request for proof of your children's age will always come at a time when it is quite inconvenient to make a trek to the Registrar's office.

Note to our blogging Registrar:  If you want to get elected for life, make an effort to see that every new parent has the opportunity to easily acquire a dozen certified copies of their new arrival's birth certificates as a matter of course.  They may not understand your foresight during the first year or so of their children's lives, but by the time their kids are starting to join soccer teams and the like they will be convinced you are a friggin' genius and heap generous contributions on your future campaigns.

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I just love this.  Two of our more frequent City Council bloggers apparently left the Council budget session yesterday and and assumed the blogging position at around the same time last night to let us know of the results of their deliberations: no increase in City taxes next year.  But the fun is how their blog post headlines reflected their political bent and level of tolerance for taxation.

10:42p - Sandy Carmany - "No city tax increase"  Which pretty much matches this morning's N&R's headline on the same subject: "Council's plans hold line on taxes".

10:18p - But Councilman Phillips. bless his heart, is rarely satisfied with simply holding the line on taxes.  He scooped everyone in his post 24 minutes before Carmany with a headline expressing his belief that his colleagues should have reached deeper: "We could have a tax cut.  (If we had the will)".

While I am quite pleased with the reason for both headlines, I like Phillips' sentiments and attitude on this the best.

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