• It was proclamation day at City Hall Thursday and the mayor’s office was teeming with little ones for a while. One of the proclamations Mayor John Peyton handed down was to twins and triplets.
• Suzanne Griffin, formerly of Legislative Services, is City Council member Lynette Self’s new executive assistant.
• Looking for a scapegoat in the spat between the City and Landing owner Toney Sleiman over parking? Try Humana. In a letter to Sleiman, JEDC Executive Director Ron Barton wrote, “Were it not for Humana’s failure to construct its parking garage, this solution would already have been implemented and the city would be under no further obligation to provide additional parking to the Landing.”
• Will it be happy hour? Perhaps, but it will be St. Paddy’s Day when City Council President Kevin Hyde and Council member Suzanne Jenkins meet today at 2 p.m. at the Twisted Martini with Landing tenants to discuss the negotiations between the Landing and the City.
• Cecily Sorensen is leaving The McCormick Agency to become the manager of corporate communications for Firehouse Subs. Sorensen’s brothers Chris and Robin own the 212 Firehouse chains.
• Some of the area’s most notable gathered at the Osborn Center Thursday for the 20th Annual Celebrity Chefs luncheon. To see who was serving up their favorite dishes, see page 5.
• Mitch Legler, attorney for Landing owner Toney Sleiman, sees the latest City offer to provide parking to the downtown mall as a good first step toward resolving the parties’ differences. City officials see it a bit differently. “I don’t think this is a conversation opener,” said JEDC Executive Director Ron Barton. “I think this is an opener and an ender.” Barton said parking is the City’s only legal obligation to the Landing.