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One of the few voices of sanity on the May Town Center development is long-time Scene fixture Christine Kreyling, who points to the alarming ignorance with which the Planning Commissioners are set to decide the fate of Bells Bend this afternoon: Unfortunately, the commissioners are scheduled to make one of the most important decision of their careers without the necessary facts. The whole prem...
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Assuming we permit a "second Downtown" to sprawl across Bells Bend in order to compete with Williamson County, what's to stop WillCo from upping the ante in the competition to attract relocating corporations by packaging a campus that is even more attractive than May Town Center? Do proponents really think that our largely Republican neighbors to the south will sit by while it ...
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Reporters (Analysts? Gentlemen Bloggers?) Lawson/Rau call Bells Bend council member a flip-flopper on May Town Center tug-o-war while Tony G. talks to them like he is choreographing CM's actions. Oh, and the Mayor suddenly goes bold on the bridge and finds a backbone to stiffen on untrammeled development....
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Knoxviews reports that McCain cancels his campaign appearance in New Orleans to promote offshore drilling. It wouldn't be the best time, given that the Mississippi is saturated in an OIL SPILL ....
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So, if this is what can happen with a moratorium on off-shore drilling, just imagine what might happen should John McCain become President, end the moratorium, and loose the hounds on the Gulf of Mexico in the name of keeping the money flowing into oil company coffers. Amateur video of the spill at Jackson Square: AP/Coast Guard video of the spill from a helicopter: ...
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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...
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Via AOL, someone had a video camera rolling at a Bush appearance when it was prohibited. The result, more candid comments caught on film: It would be newsworthy--and refreshing--if he said this kind of thing in public:"There is no question......
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But no sign of a harvest festival on the once bushy Concept G property....
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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...
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Dean Holtzman is gone : In 1959, [Jerome] Holtzman, then covering the Chicago Cubs , invented the statistic known as the save, which helps measure the effectiveness of relief pitchers. Mr. Holtzman’s notion was that if a pitcher entered a game with a lead and had to face the potential tying run, and he then held the lead and finished the game, he should be credited with a save. Mr. Holtzman...
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Here's a window-rattler on North End builds: [T]he industrial complex of Werthan Mills has excellent window-proportioning, classical brick pilasters, story articulation, and many other traditional design characteristics that manage to humanize the place. If a traditional single-family house and a pre-war purse factory can deploy the same essential elements to achieve comely neighborliness, why...
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The Mac-Daddies-No-More are killing the mortgage market: bond investors, worried that the companies may not be as big a support to the market as they have been, are driving up interest rates on securities backed by home loans. That added cost is being passed on to consumers through the mortgage markets. For a $400,000 loan, the increase in 30-year rates in the last few days would add $71 to a ...
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University professors let go of education of the whole person a long time ago, and now some of them are bitching about the " misguided functionaries " in Student Life who have rushed in to fill the void they left. Maybe the faculty should buck up and start participating more in the everyday residence life of students. The scholars issuing the complaint choose the cheap and easy solution: p...
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From the AP : Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches .... Niteroi, the state's biggest zoo, already has already received about 100 penguins for treatment this year and many are drenched in petroleum, Muniz said. The Campos oil field that supplies most of Brazil's oil lies offshore. John McCain beco...
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Spread the word.......
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Christine Buttorff gives City Paper readers a break from Richard Lawson's pandering to the May Town Center development team by reporting the findings of a study commissioned by those trying to save Bells Bend as the last rural area close to Downtown (Buttorff inaccurately refers to it as the last "undeveloped" area around Downtown; there are parcels of undeveloped properties various places close...
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A sign of our hate-filled times....
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In San Diego a disproportionate share of subprime loans were doled out two and three years ago to minorities and immigrants in the same zip codes with predatory arrogance and wishful thinking. Now bank-owned, ghost-town neighborhoods languish and drag down property values across other San Diego neighborhoods....
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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, ...
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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....
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Trying to recall all the songs beyond BÖC's (Don't Fear) the Reaper that have prominent cow bells. Off the top of my head, I can recall these by LTD, Barry White, and Nazareth: ...
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Take note: Dear Friend of Bells Bend, We need your help one more time before the July 24th Planning Commission Meeting. The planning commissioners have not heard from many Bells Bend supporters. It is CRITICAL that they hear from us over the next 3 days. Please email all of the planning commissioners ... even if you have already written the planning department and your councilman. This...
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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...
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Kia Franklin responds to Barack Obama's video-address to a progressive bloggers' conference in Austin, Tx, pointing to the higher stakes of FISA: One issue that should be of top priority to progressive bloggers and blog readers is fighting for civil justice and access to the courts for ordinary Americans. Progressive bloggers felt the exhilarating rush of our potential and power to mobilize on...
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Court rules FCC fine against CBS for 2004 halftime wardrobe malfunction "arbitrary and capricious."...
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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....
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So, the progressives are discussing a caucus to help streamline and coordinate their initiatives so as to avoid the fracture of issues like placing LEDs in residential neighborhoods, huh? Whose fault is that they fractured? Was it really those progressive constituents who Nate Rau speculates "blogged" Charlie Tygard to death? Given the rather limited influence of blogs, I doubt it...
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In this clip Matt Simmons laments that there hasn't been a greater public policy response to high oil prices. It is remarkable. Think back just a few years, before hurricane Katrina. If someone had told you that oil would soon......
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