"Representatives for one of the country’s largest student housing developers will meet with the Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association on Thursday as neighbors weigh a student housing project in the area."

23 of 30 residential units at 836 Oak Street (an old JG Flynt Tobacco building)have been leased or sold.

From the story: "Alex Lange is a chubby, dimpled, healthy and happy 4-month-old.

But in the cold, calculating numbered charts of insurance companies, he is fat. That's why he is being turned down for health insurance. And that's why he is a weighty symbol of a problem in the health care reform debate."

"The first step: the developer — Dinerstein Cos. of Houston — needs 49 property owners in a targeted 10-acre area of Glenwood to sell. Last month the company sent letters to owners, trying to gauge interest. The move caused a flap when some residents objected to the idea of an apartment-style student housing complex. But Lindsey said there has also been a lot of interest."

Whenever I think I actually have a handle on all the latest offerings on the web I'm usually knocked down a peg or two when I read the blogs of people who really know what's going on. The latest instance is Fred Wilson's post on open subtitles: "The film is in swedish and the download I got did not have english subtitles. But fortunately Boxee supports Open Subtitles. If you are streaming or watching a downloaded video in Boxee, you can simply ask for subtitles and Boxee goes out and fetches them from opensubtitles.org."

That's just amazing to me.

Lex writes: "Also, a lot of people will be making a big deal out of a Congressional Budget Office report that “tort reform” would save $54 billion from federal deficits during the next 10 years — $41 billion in spending reductions and $13 billion in new revenue.

That’s not peanuts … except in the case of what the U.S. spends for health care. We spend roughly $2.4 trillion every year on it. So these savings would be the equivalent of saving a nickel on a $24 restaurant tab."

"As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s original vow to curb costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics. "