Some are afraid they will be left behind:
For the next 10 years, demographers will use the information to say, as Donato predicts, Nashville is attracting a younger population.
As someone who knows how reluctant new immigrants can be to sharing information, Donato says she is worried foreign born families may [...]
Richard Thompson on Bill Haslam’s trip to Memphis:
Again, I know it’s the Republican primary but, when you visit the county with the most people of color in the state, shouldn’t you at least make an effort to diversify?
[...]States Distancing Themselves From The Federal Government
Over 40 States Declare State Sovereignty
by J. D. Longstreet
A few snippets:
NINTH AMENDMENT to the US Constitution: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.TENTH AMENDMENT to the US [...]
Trains pay a 7 percent tax on diesel fuel, a charge trucks are exempt from paying under state law. In a federal lawsuit filed last month, Illinois Central Railroad Co. claims the train tax amounts to discrimination against its industry.
At stake are millions of dollars the state [...]
From the Times Free Press:
The bill is currently on hold, but Rep. Campfield said he plans to push the legislation in the next few weeks.
He said several University of Tennessee students, especially those in the social sciences, have told him they are concerned about professors assigning texts they have [...]
sadcox -- 3 hours of Glenn Beck radio program summarized in
Well, that's just part of the ongoing insufferable Glenn Beck Promotional Tour.
[...]Compare this placid, polite statement to what the Tea Partiers are doing - taking to the streets and the White House lawn, protesting loudly and uncivilly, engaging in raucous street theater, and demanding specific political objectives. The problem, of course, is that all of this [...]
Noting there are 24 weekdays between today and Tax Day, the National Republican Congressional Committee plans to target Tennessee congressional candidate Roy Herron’s votes on taxes with a new hit every day from now until April 15. Republicans will swat Herron, a Democratic state senator running [...]
Buried in a story in the Commercial Appeal yesterday that was wrought with various confusing items from former Mayor Willie Herenton, we read the quote ” to hell with all the bloggers.”
I had to really take some time to chew on that one from Herenton. [...]
I guess Romney will be running for President on the Anti-Change platform, against Obama's "Really, I mean it this time Change" platform. Decisions, decisions.
It’s on the Full House Judiciary calendar for Tuesday @ 3:30.
Once it passes out of Judiciary, it goes to the Floor for debate and eventual passage. The timeframe I’ve been given is about 5 weeks for full passage in the House.
We have significantly less trouble getting things [...]
From The City Paper:
When we look at Harold Ford, we might see a carpetbagger — but we should also see our future. Modern America is a mobile America, and we have started to embrace the nomadic lifestyle of our leaders. Regionalism and parochialism are being replaced by universalism. Things [...]
Don’t even think about complaining. I told you, way back on March 1st that I would do this again. J. Caesar was killed today, 2050 years ago, or so, but he was warned that something might be afoot. Guess he should have listened…or maybe not.
Unfortunately, despite [...]
From Georgiana Vines:
Former Knox County Clerk Mike Padgett, a Democrat term-limited in 2007 who later ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, attended with son Mark and greeted folks as politicians do, with a smile and handshake.
“This is our next mayor,” Padgett said. “I come as a Democrat to support [...]
Charles Maldonado looks at the practice of corporal punishment in Middle Tennessee’s public and private schools. See the policies of various schools here.
[...]An interview with the WSJ:
“There was no question in my mind that when things were as they were Thursday, that [Sen. Dodd] was going to move to the left with the bill to make sure that at least in committee he had almost all the Democrats. He obviously [...]
Over the years we have heard on the news how the Social Security Administration has been in danger of going bankrupt. The answer has always been some type of “reform” in order to keep it afloat. When I hear this news story I always scream at the politicians on the [...]
Depending on what poll you use, TN finished the regular season ranked 13th, 14th or 15th. If you seeded teams purely on the polls -- first four a one seed, second four a two, etc. -- then TN would be a fourth seed. But the only team to have [...]
From Karen Kwiatkowski:
I guess Romney will be running for President on the Anti-Change platform, against Obama’s “Really, I mean it this time Change” platform. Decisions, decisions.
[...]Davidson County mountain bike trails refined
What's a mountain in Davidson County? A landfill?
[...]Rex Noseworthy has the story:
Rex enjoys a good political fundraiser, especially those that involve heavyweights like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore.
Reid, faced with a competitive race to defend his Nevada Senate seat, flew into Nashville last week hoping to raise big bucks at [...]
By Daryl Luna, Editor at:I fear one of these mornings we're going to wake up and realize we have our troops in the wrong country.
Gunmen killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in this violent border city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after the husband of' [...]
I fear one of these mornings we're going to wake up and realize we have our troops in the wrong country.
Gunmen killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in this violent border city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after the husband of' [...]
The Memphis Poll — city government’s equivalent of the Consumer Confidence Index — said that 8 out of 10 Memphians are satisfied with city services.
That’s the highest rating since 2001.
Results of the poll never show up on the nightly news, because only a handful of news [...]
I know that sabot-encased slugs from smoothbore shotguns are basically useless (believe me, I know, although “basically useless” does not preclude them from putting very large holes in things), but they certainly do look nifty:
Also, good lord macro photography shows off dust/dirt.
When I get around [...]
Business… towns take note.
A report from the Chattanooga Times
Krystal has shut down its Dayton Boulevard restaurant in Red Bank for poor performance, according to spokesman Brian Cooley.
Another Krystal is in Hixson, three miles away, he said. The store closure is not part of a larger strategy nor related to [...]
Uh….so, this so called ‘teacher’ of 12 years, is trying to relate to his students by calling them “LOSER”?????? Let’s say this assjack graduated at age 24, that would make him, roughly, in the 36 year old age range? Is this jerk suppose to be a grown up, in a [...]
Back in December, Leonard Embody, an individual who posts by the name of “kwikrnu” on the Internet, openly carried a Draco pistol-receivered AK-47 in Radnor Lake Park. The pistol was intentionally painted in such a way that would be confusing to police officers (as expressly stated by Leonard [...]
Looks like I’ll have some leg-work to do tomorrow.
WASHINGTON – Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
Wendy Thomas should have a lot of fun with this [...]
The two top seeds, KS and KY, had four losses between them. Half those were to TN. You just kicked sand in Bruce Pearl's face. Put your seatbelts on.
[...]Without a doubt.
Think about it. Theodore Olbermann was 81 years old. How many octogenerians do you think will qualify for colon surgery under a government-run health care system? Try somewhere between few and none. The risk of complications is high (see Olbermann, Theodore) and additional, costly post-op procedures [...]
So says the Southern Poverty Law Center:
An Arlington, Va.-based group pushing for Tennessee driver’s license exams to be given only in English has ties to the “racist founder of the modern anti-immigration movement,” a researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center says.
Dr. John Tanton, the founding chairman of the [...]
One of the weapons in the Pentagon attack was seized by Memphis police in 2005 and later traded to a gun dealer; the gun used in the Jan. 4 courthouse shooting in Las Vegas as sold by a judge’s order and the proceeds given to the Memphis-area [...]
It’s worse, says a newspaper editorial:
To say that the state is reverting to a Wild West mentality is questionable, though. Didn’t those gunslingers have to leave their six-shooters outside the saloon door?
[...]Rep. Stacey Campfield is for it:
Another interesting problem is what if say I had a corporation just over the Tennessee border in Bristol VA. selling widgets. 95% of my employees live in Tennessee. 95% of my widgets are sold to a Tennessee corporations to make super widgets or are [...]
From Mike Pirtle:
Seems some folk were surprised when a recent MTSU opinion poll revealed only 19 percent of the general public could identify a candidate in this year’s state governor’s race.
Look the economy is awful and the weather has been historically bad, so why would people want to suffer [...]
Chas Sisk reports:
Each bill would save the state $325,000 to $360,000 a year. Finney, the Senate Democratic Caucus chairman, said he plans to propose that the funds be used to pay unemployment benefits to the spouses of soldiers deployed overseas.
But lawmakers who live far from Nashville could be resistant [...]
From the Commercial Appeal:
Critics have questioned the seriousness of Herenton’s campaign because he has raised no money and included little information on his Web site.
Some of the most caustic criticism came in the wake of his appearance on WREG-TV Channel 3’s “Live at 9,” when he held up a [...]
Since then, Embody has filed a federal lawsuit against the Radnor Lake State Park ranger. Friday, he received a certified letter from the Tennessee Department of Safety stating his gun carry permit was revoked.
“There was a material likelihood that I was a risk to the public,” Embody said [...]
Chas Sisk reporting:
The candidates were more divided on the question of expanding the TNInvestco program, a Bredesen initiative in which Tennessee is offering $120 million in transferable tax credits to firms that invest in startup firms selected by state officials.
McMillan, Gibbons and Ramsey said they would expand it. But [...]
In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it’s General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media — has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both. And at the root of these failures [...]
The senior Senator continues his rhetorical assault on health care reform:
On “Face the Nation” Sunday, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said that Democrats poised to push through the health care reform bill with a 51-vote majority in the next several days are on a “kamikaze mission,” and are heading for [...]
Where does one start with this article?
The campaign priorities or the place where Willie Herenton said to “hell with the bloggers” when he was questioned?
Let’s start with the campaign platform. That’s the question that Jonathan Cole is asking at Grand Divisions.
The beginning of Herenton’s campaign seemed focused more on [...]
Today’s quote of the day comes from pdb by way of this comment he left at Marko’s place:
Every time the uplifters try to pass another behavior modification law, I want them to swear on the Bible that it’s worth shooting a guy in the face over.
And [...]
Obama gets static from the Left:
The differences in tone can be jarring — and infuriating to his liberal supporters. Obama in December fired shots at “fat cat bankers,” then told bankers at the White House the next day he didn’t mean to vilify anyone or dictate their pay.
He [...]
