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NYC Just Shoved Nashville Farther into the Bigoted Backwater

Unafraid of a cutting edge, Mayor Bloomberg ordered New York City's 100 agencies to provide services in SIX different languages (even French Creole!). By contrast, the cosmopolitan metropolis Nashville--with expanding Kurdish and Hispanic populations--is on the verge of forcing all of its city employees to speak only English even if responding in another language mi...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Wed 9:40 p.m. - 2 clicks

Grantham Is Talking against Local Liberal Bloggers

Nashville is Talking's Christian Grantham says that it would be "nice to see some liberal bloggers stand up to elected officials who work with private developers to seize people's personal property." I agree. It would be nice to see liberal bloggers stand up to elected officials who work with private developers under many different conditions; that possibility is one of the reas...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Wed 7:04 p.m. - 7 clicks

Quote of the Day on North End Developers

The only thing that I would add to New Towner's Charrette comment is that the design amateurs in S-town promote the degradation of the community before they conduct their experiments: One day people are going to look back at Salemtown and bits of Germantown and say "this is where up-and-coming 30-something Nashvillians disembarked from the declining suburbs in the early 21st-century, ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Tue 8:00 a.m. - 10 clicks

Of All Things, a Liquor Store: A True Man-Bites-Dog Story

A neighborhood liquor store in Chicago becomes the local community center for positive change, including rescuing teen gang members and getting guns off the streets. I cannot imagine any liquor store in Nashville stepping up to approach that kind of community improvement....
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Mon 7:31 p.m. - 12 clicks

I Need Your Help with Some Junk Mail

Today's snail mail brought us our edition of the Nashville English First petition, which Eric Crafton is using as an end-around last year's mayoral veto in order to force Metro employees never to speak any other language to help people out. I'm trying to think of some creative means (lying beyond the lip of my trash can) of doing my part to cause a little inco...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Mon 6:04 p.m. - 16 clicks

TNT Jumps into School Rezoning Flap

Amy Griffith reports that Nashville's community- and faith-based IAF-affiliate, Tying Nashville Together has come out against the MNPS-adopted rezoning plan that would send north Nashville students to the Pearl-Cohn cluster. I wrote a Vanderbilt dissertation and an article or two in my time on TNT's brand of community organizing....
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Mon 3:00 p.m. - 15 clicks

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