Thursday, February 28, 2008

Politics Memphis style

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(Red Hat) Rob Shearer posts over at the Tennessee ConserVOLiance his take on this whole HB2795 testing for every student dust up. He star...

Let's go to the replay

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Here's the video of the Special Initiatives sub-committee yesterday. I want to remind folks that as HB2795 stands now it includes ALL ...
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Hardaway punts

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Yesterday's House Education Committee's Special Initiatives sub-committee was very well attended by parents, children and others int...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The pressure is on

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Not surprisingly the volume of calls regarding HB2795 which would require non-public students to submit to public school tests has been hug...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

World's collide

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Tomorrow the Legislative Plaza will have two very different views of early childhood education on the hill. Tomorrow is Pre-K Day on the Hil...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Testing for all: public, private, home schooled

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Rep. G. A. Hardaway (D-Memphis) has introduced HB2795 which will require all students whether public, private or home schooled to submit ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Cleaning up the backlog

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I haven't fallen off the planet. I'm busy updating websites, investigating some current legislation and trying to clean up some proj...
Saturday, February 09, 2008

Goose/Gander

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This is interesting. The potential ramifications are huge, for a ruling in favor of the couple could affect the millions of Americans who se...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Super Tuesday--Quiet Wednesday

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I'll be very glad when this day is over...no matter who wins what. It'll mean the end of constant robo-calls and just now one of the...
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Memphis (F)liar II

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AC Kleinheider posts that the misleading photo of Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) published in the Memphis alt-weekly Memphis Flyer ...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

Construction for Bredesen, but not children

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Apparently Gov. Phil Bredesen can find $12 million to fund his party bunker from a very tight state budget but the hundreds of millions o...

Memphis (F)liar

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This isn't about Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) , it's not about any legislation he has, is or will offer. This is about the l...
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Friday, February 01, 2008

MNPS needs a CEO

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As I consider the Metro Nashville Public Schools' need for a new Superintendent I'm of the mind it may be time to abandon the usua...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

BOE is unsure--I'm not

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It's the sub-headline that tells the real story regarding the MNPS BOE and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean's 'partnership' to ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

It's 2 to 1

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Yesterday's mail contained letters from Experian confirming they've placed a security freeze on our credit accounts after the theft ...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Hillary's Blue

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Since last evening I've been getting robo calls from Blue Solutions (615-254-2200) inviting me to a Hillary Clinton townhall meeting ...
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We're not stuck yet

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When Fred dropped out I posted about my intention to still vote for him. Bob Krumm voted for Fred yesterday. I'm glad he did. He explai...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

TransUnion says no

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I've just gotten off the phone with TransUnion. After writing them a very specific letter with 5 pages of documentation with the inform...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Foxy idea

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Yesterday's real surprise wasn't what the Chamber thinks needs to be done about MNPS or even Fred's dropping out. It was David...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I'm disappointed

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He's still getting my vote. I'll be examining the Republican convention delegate names very carefully. I'm not sure what to thin...