Wednesday, April 30, 2008

NCLB cat skinning

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Not sure if this sort of 'out of the box' thinking should be rewarded or not but it certainly proves there is more than one way to s...

Why not START here?

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The Tennessee House, lead by its Democrat leaders, continues to coddle it's own despite their conviction by the people of felonies. The ...

Gone before it got here

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The largess graciously handed to the peasant classes by our congressional overlords appeared in the checking account this morning. We had ev...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Acting responsibly

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"I think, to me, it's a little irresponsible to wait until someone commits a violent act and then deport them," [Davidson Coun...
Friday, April 25, 2008

AT&T and parental controls

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I've been online now for some 13 years. I started with AOL and quickly learned that they'd rather promote spam than provide me with ...

It's Briley's fault, I'm sure

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Yes, I'm more than well aware of the Google ads for "girls" that's been appearing on this blog lately. That URL showed up ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Proximity and Power

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Jay Greene (of the Washington Post and Manhatten Institute ) has his own blog now--that's good news. Here is a snip from his Proximity...

Return to sender

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From the Wall Street Journal's Letters section in response to some teachers who blame poor performance on the children: Still, [teacher]...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

It's holiday time again

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Ben Cunningham's mail from State Sentor Joe Haynes (D-Nashville) included this 'invitation' to take a sales tax holiday. Ben wo...
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Briley v. Men

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The Tennessean does a LOUSY job this morning of reporting on State Rep. Rob Briley's (D-Nashville) "Ophelia" moment last we...
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Outrageous, again

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State Rep. Rob Briley (D-Nashville) is proving, again, why he needs to step down from the State Legislature. As if his personal battle wit...
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Nashville perspective

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We knew Garth Brooks was a really big star, especially here in Nashville, but until today's Business Section of the Tennessean publishe...

Stakeholders and money

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Bit and pieces that have collected over the last couple of weeks. Stakeholders: The City Paper editorialized on 4/7/08 in regard to the nu...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Revolving doors

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FAA officials often are former execs of the airlines they now regulate. Education officials are often former employees of the schools they n...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Trusting Blackburn

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Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-Williamson County) is amending her 2002 campaign disclosure forms. Seems they found some errors and need to...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

But we're special

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There isn't enough information in this Tennessean article to provide a clear understanding of the complaints of 'a group of Metro p...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008

They should probably wait longer

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A little filler in Wednesday's Tennessean tells us that BOE member Mark North's (Madison) rezoning committee will delay its reco...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

Color over competence

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I've said for years that Memphis is a 'whole 'nother planet' and I'm regularly amazed that it continues to top itself in...

So there was fat to trim

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"I do not think people will be able to visually see the reduction [of 7-9% of the personnel at Public Works) because of the way we'...

So which is it?

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I get emails with news updates from the Nashville Post. This morning I clicked on the link for AC's new space at the Post and I got the ...
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