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Jack Lail talks about NiT going dark. One of the sure bets of the digital age is nothing stays the same so, like Gilbert, I don’t mourn the change. The efforts that were ignited by broadcasting consultant Terry Heaton and Mike Sechrist, then general manager of the Nashville station, however, were truly innovative and have continued [...]...
Newscoma - 6:44 a.m.
An excellent interview this afternoon with Brittney Gilbert at Pith in the Wind by Betsy Phillips on the demise of Nashville is Talking. I’m just going to say it. I miss those first giddy days of blogging and what Betsy said rings true to me as well. From my perspective, when I was just starting out as [...]...
Newscoma - Mon 3:49 p.m.
Five years ago today I launched Enclave with a quote from and reflection on Peter Taylor : As one walks or rides down any street in Nashville one can feel now and again that he has just glimpsed some pedestrian on the sidewalk who was not quite real somehow, who with a glance over his shoulder or with a look of a disenchanted eye has warned one not to believe too much in the plastic present ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Mon 12:29 p.m. - 3 clicks 
Answering the Call John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee Isaiah 6:1-13 Luke 5:1-11 How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. -- Hafiz The way of creativity, the via creativa , is the way of finding our voice. It is waking up. ...
Shuck and Jive - Sun 12:49 p.m. - 3 clicks
Sarah Palin spoke here in Nashville last night. Her speech was covered by every major cable news channel in the country. Media representatives from all over the world swarmed down on Nashville. The only other person who can get this kind of coverage on a Saturday night is President Barack Obama. The woman speaks and the media obsesses, writhes and moans, all the while insisting that the ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Sun 12:23 p.m. - 9 clicks
Mayor Karl Dean's best answer to fixing Metro schools has been to promote the charter school fad, the hot latest big distraction in public education. Well, a new report on charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia reveals information about them more ominous than the probability that they cause governments to take their eye off the ball: The report found that charter schools ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Sun 12:02 p.m. - 3 clicks
If I’m going to be in Memphis more, I need to know where to go and eat. I think I found something to guide my way through the dark tunnels of learning a new place and it’s called LunchBrag. ...
Newscoma - Sun 7:22 a.m. - 4 clicks
What I do for my readers. Sheesh. I am suffering through Sarah Palin's speech. The speech she is giving 8 miles from my house. So let me set a few things straight. First, we liberals are strong, and fighting the stupidity of the Palin's of this country. We aren't running scared. We're running a long race to try to fix what Bush and Cheney did. Sarah. You're in Nashville. President Obama W...
SharonCobb.com - Sat 6:48 p.m. - 4 clicks
I don’t know why this made me spew coffee this morning, but it did. First of all, how did the groundhog and the woman get into a fight? Did the groundhog diss the woman’s mother? Was it over the love of another groundhog in some unseemly love triangle? And why did this make the newspaper? So many [...]...
Newscoma - Sat 6:23 a.m. - 2 clicks
From someone I know who is at the Tea Party who tweeted this: "Joseph Farrah just hijacked the tea party in Nashville claiming the birther movement is a legit part of tea party activism." I told ya, these people are nuts! ...
SharonCobb.com - Sat 3:47 a.m. - 13 clicks
Greg Rabidoux, opponent of right winger Marsha Blackburn, will be leading the anti Tea Party protest, and hopefully help draw attention to the national media that Nashville is blue and he represents the majority of voters in Nashville, not Blackburn. Here is the tentative schedule: Saturday, February 6 3:30 – mobilize 4:15 – arrive at visibility location 5:00 – Banquet Registration 7:00 – Ba...
SharonCobb.com - Sat 12:20 a.m. - 4 clicks
Here is what TNDP.ORG says: Maintenance We apologize for the inconvenience, but Tennessee Democratic Party is currently undergoing maintenance. Normally I wouldn't question the above, but with the crazies in town for the Tea Party convention, I have to wonder if the site was hacked because it seems like an odd time for the Democratic Party site to be down for Maintenance. Chip? Anyone? ...
SharonCobb.com - Fri 10:43 p.m. - 8 clicks
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/ Thank God Scary Sara is forming her very own Tea Pot….Bag…whatever political party. Now the Ass-End of the Republican party will have a brand new Assroots movement to be part of. (snort) Idiots….. The Tea Bag convention went well for the ones getting the speaker fees. Sara Failin got 100k for displaying her incompar...
Ablogination - Fri 11:30 a.m. - 5 clicks
With video game and HD Tv turning out kids into couch potatoes destined for an old age fighting type 2 diabetes, some folks are trying to reverse a really unhealthy trend. Yesterday the Tennessee State Senate adopted SR705 in support of:Tennessee Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights With recent concerns about youth detachment from the outdoors, lack of physical exercise and increased health ...
WhitesCreek Journal - Fri 4:06 a.m. - 3 clicks
Chris Wallace and Chris Matthews, one yahoo is on Fox News, the other yahoo is on MSNBC, and that's pretty well the only difference I can see. Women may be governors and senators, and one day vice presidents and presidents, but to these lecherous old lunatics, women are just hot babes who should sit on their laps. The leering boyz think they are so funny, but the lecherous male-dominated ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Fri 12:06 a.m. - 16 clicks
Sarah Palin (unknown photographer) (Sing to the tune of 'Santa Claus is coming to town') LYRICS You better watch out You best be on guard Lunacy's headed to our backyard Sarah Palin's comin' to town She's wingin' her way On her corporate jet With Bachmann and Blackburn and the Tea Party set Sarah Palin's comin' to town The birthers and John Birchers Will have a jubilee They're gon...
SharonCobb.com - Thu 10:02 p.m. - 17 clicks
In my reading and personal encounters, I am heartened by the number of people who see their religions clearly and remain strong in their faith without requiring departures from factual reality. Consider Myles Horton, one of the great social activists of the twentieth century. He was born into a Calvinist family in Savannah, Tennessee, not far from the birthplace of Sir John Templeton and Day...
Shuck and Jive - Thu 9:25 p.m. - 9 clicks
I can't believe I live in a city that is hosting the first Tea Party convention with Sarah Palin on Saturday. I'd like those haters and ignorant necks(long, short, red and otherwise) to try this in San Fransisco. I wish they had a country music business somewhere else. That said, there are other progressives and Democrats of all stripes in Nashville, more than you might think, and today we are...
SharonCobb.com - Wed 10:27 p.m. - 20 clicks
Colorado Springs is experiencing the contraction in store for Nashville with budget cuts, resistance to revenues, and the artificial wedges driven between "macroeconomy" (for example, primary focus on "regionwide development") and "microeconomy" (balance between local infrastructure and top-down growth): Residents constantly complained about how high their taxes were yet seemed unable to compre...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Wed 10:40 a.m. - 3 clicks
Charles Hardin Holley died 51 years ago today. You probably know him better as Buddy Holly. He started off playing bluegrass with someone in Nashville we all know or have known in our own music careers, Bob Montgomery. Then, in 1955, Buddy went to hear Elvis play, and he started incorporating what was called 'rockabilly' into his unique sound, and songs like 'Peggy Sue,' 'That'll Be The Da...
SharonCobb.com - Tue 9:03 p.m. - 7 clicks
This one blew my mind. Maybe it was seeing it in writing, with pictures , that finally connected the dots for me. And it's all happening here in Tennessee... “Father, we thank you for tonight,” he said. “We pray that we will be a representation of you.” An hour later, a member of his flock who had bowed his head was now unleashing a torrent of blows on an...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Feb 2 - 4 clicks
" I am pro-choice -- have always been since I entered politics almost 15 years ago ." -- Harold Ford, 2010 " No, No. I was not pro-choice at one time, we don't have votes like that in the Congress ." -- Harold Ford, 2006 " I'm pro-life, I'm pro-life Tucker. So I mean, I don't run from that ." --Harold Ford, 2006 More on double-speaking Harold Ford (scroll down) Politics Te...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Feb 2 - 4 clicks
A family linked to a major U.S. university elsewhere is in hot water over anonymous internet tactics that are common practice for the guerilla-style sock puppetry of Tennessee's Cooley Public Strategies : Norman Golb, a professor of Jewish history and civilization at Chicago, has been mostly a sideline figure since his son, Raphael, was arrested last March after allegedly creating dozens of W...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Feb 1 - 4 clicks
I have preached over and over that if urban neighborhoods are going to be viable for quality growth and development, a concerted effort has to be made to attract families with children. Ask East Nashville, which was recently named one of the "South's Best Comeback Neighborhoods": After 10-plus years of a slow and steady rise, the neighborhood has managed to keep its eclectic, artsy vibe while w...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 31 - 8 clicks
The Trouble With Sermons John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee January 31st, 2010 Jeremiah 1:4-10 Luke 4:21-30 Last week I titled the sermon, Being a Sermon . It was part 1. The guiding text featured Jesus preaching in the synagogue. According to Luke , fresh from being tempted by the satan in the wilderness, he is filled with the Spirit, returns to pop...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 31 - 12 clicks
Beginning Monday, our local NPR affiliate, WETS is changing its programing. It is adding some new programs and moving some others. Here is the story in Johnson City Press : WETS, the East Tennessee State University public radio station, will stop airing music in favor of news shows on weekdays beginning next month, a major change for the 36-year-old station. One of my favorite program...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 30 - 7 clicks
In October 2007, 40 men were caught in a sting in Johnson City. At the insistence of the police department, their names, addresses and photos were published in the Johnson City Press. The day after the publication, one of the men took his own life. In October of 2008 one of the men, Kenneth Giles, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city of Johnson City. Giles was represen...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 27 - 3 clicks
Burkley Allen reports the latest news about tomorrow's Planning Commission agenda changes to the Nashville Neighborhoods e-list: Sponsors of both LED bills on the planning agenda have asked for a deferral for both bills so that the two groups can have a courtesy meeting. This means that both bills will be deferred for at least one meeting. The only public comment tomorrow will be on the request...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 27 - 4 clicks
…and the shit gets thicker. Just a quick update of the prevailing story of the year. Majikthise (Lindsay Beyerstein) has more details on the perps …… It seems Flanagan once interned for none other than our own Lamar Alexander. Also, dig this… STAN DAI, Lisle, Ill., Attends The George Washington University majoring in Political Science. He is editor-in-chie...
Ablogination - Jan 27 - 3 clicks
Hillary Rodham Clinton told PBS's Tavis Smiley that she is not interested in serving as Secretary of State for two terms. Hillary also repeated her assertion that she absolutely will not run for president again. Many of us here on TGW have long predicted that fact. The country had its chance and blew it. The interview will air tonight on PBS' Tavis Smiley Reports: TAVIS SMILEY: That o...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 27 - 3 clicks
What kind of alternative universe would it be if $1,000,000 was spent on marketing the idea of addressing Nashville's chronic homeless issue instead of on hawking the goal of making a niche industry wealthier than the rest? Jeff Woods suggests the Mayor's Office has misplaced priorities: First, Dean rams through the new convention center for downtown businesses, then he asks people to toss so...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 27 - 7 clicks
Being a Sermon John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee January 24th, 2010 Nehemiah 8:1-10 Luke 4:14-21 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 Krishna said: Those who lack discrimination may quote the letter of the scripture, but they are really denying its inner truth. They are full of worldly desires, and hungry for the rewards of heaven. They use beautiful figures of speec...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 24 - 4 clicks
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Katie Kitchin the former the city’s Director of the Norfolk Va. Office to End Homelessness. Currently Ms. Kitchin is working here for the city of Memphis in the implementation of the new Rapid Rehousing program set up earlier this year via funds from the 2009 AARA. I have followed Ms Kitchin's efforts in Norfolk and have been very impressed with her action...
Confessions of a West Tennessee Liberal - Jan 15 - 3 clicks
