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Enclave

• Gangs and Higher Taxes in the 'Burbs

  Urban myths busted and homecoming roosters. [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:22pm Eastern Daylight Time

TennesseeTicket.com

• Sizing up Wamp's opposition

  U.S. Representative Zach Wamp has not faced a well-supported challenger in any of his re-election bids. Tennessee's congressional districts are gerrymandered enough; but the Third District was represented by a Democrat for twenty years... [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:15pm Eastern Daylight Time

Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee

• This Congressman’s Dead Anyway

  Herman Wang reports that Rep. Lincoln Davis doesn’t think it is the role of a superdelegate to commit to a candidate before the convention.

  Davis has apparently taken his belief quite seriously reportedly rebuffing an invitation for a sit down with Hillary Clinton:

  “He says that’s not true,” [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:11pm Eastern Daylight Time by Kleinheider

Enclave

• Schöne Ansicht Bad Salemtown Neighbors Once Again

  Friday night/Saturday morning was a fun-filled time for Salemtown neighbors living around Schöne Ansicht who were awakened to graduation party-goers spilling out of a townhouse and into neighbors yards to take their pisses and to form drunken, juvenile-style fight clubs for two or three hours after midnight. The townhouse hosting [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:06pm Eastern Daylight Time

• Greenway Connector between MetroCenter and Downtown Starting to Take Shape

  
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  Today I went out to MetroCenter to check out progress on Metro's project to connect Downtown and the Cumberland River Levee greenway. I was surprised to find that I could walk a good distance from the I-65 bridge to a point between Nashville Island [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:55pm Eastern Daylight Time

Smart City Memphis

• Beale Street Needs Signs Of The Times

  
  
  It’s always interesting compare the hyperbole about Beale Street with the reality of Beale Street.
  
  In a recent article in The Commercial Appeal about new security on the street, this statement jumped off the page. It was made by the head [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:40pm Eastern Daylight Time

TennesseeTicket.com

• Michelle Obama in Tennessee Thursday

  The event is a fundraiser. Details are at Post Politics.... [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:30pm Eastern Daylight Time

Smart City Memphis

• City Employment Numbers Just Don't Add Up

  In time, we suspect that the controversy over the growing payroll in City Hall will be tempest in a teapot.
  
  A week ago, Memphis City Council members cross-examined Memphis Chief Administrative Officer Keith McGee about a budget document that showed that the number of employees growing from 5,162 in [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:24pm Eastern Daylight Time

Tiny Cat Pants

• After a While, It’s Hard to Say Which is Which

  After a while, the houses all start to run together.  The street names–Greenwood, Woodlawn, Greenland, Riverwood, Creekwood, Woodwood, Woodforest, Forestwood, Forestforest, Forestlawn, Lawndale, Dalewood, Woodgreen, Greenwood–all seem to come full circle after a while.  Did we drive down this street already?  Did we look at that house already? If we bought [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:13pm Eastern Daylight Time by Aunt B.

Smart City Memphis

• Putting A Price On The Suburban Commute

  The Tennessee Legislature is flirting with the idea of toll roads to fill the gap in road funding.
  
  We cast our vote for Highway 385.
  
  It’s the most expensive gift ever given in this county to developers and to sprawl, and it’s time to make them pay a [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:05pm Eastern Daylight Time

Truman's Take

• Hillary Clinton skewered by SNL as a Sore Loser

  Ouch! What candidate do you think the folks at SNL have cast their lots with?

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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:01pm Eastern Daylight Time

Smart City Memphis

• Council Member Offers Winning Funding Idea

  Finally, a City Council member suggested the obvious: tenants for Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium should help pay for the $7.6 million in upgrades that they will benefit from.
  
  Savvy Council member Jim Strickland, after listening to labored justifications for a new home locker room, moving the visitor’s locker room, [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:49pm Eastern Daylight Time

Thaddeus Matthews Dot Com

• Why Would The City Give Elkington's For Profit Company The Lease On Handy Park For Just $1.00 A Year?

  John Elkington is the President and CEO of Performa Entertainment Company,the company that manages The Historic Beale Street District under agreement with The Beale Street Development Corporation. Performa is listed with the state of Tennessee as a FOR PROFIT corporation. So why did the City of Memphis give a for [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:31pm Eastern Daylight Time

Truman's Take

• Where does Nashville's Education Mayor send his kids?

  Dean campaigned as the education mayor and is pushing hard for reform. But his daughter attends Nashville's prestigious Harpeth Hall all-girls school, and his son is a Montgomery Bell Academy graduate.
  
  "As for where my children go to school, that is a decision my wife and I made about [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:28pm Eastern Daylight Time

Smart City Memphis

• Traumatizing Our Public Meetings And Records

  State Rep. Ulysses Jones must have been frightened by sunshine while he was in his crib.
  
  Only a childhood trauma could have given him such an obsession in eroding the transparency and openness of government with his amendments to weaken Tennessee’s open meetings (Sunshine Law) and public records laws.
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:27pm Eastern Daylight Time

Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee

• Michelle Obama To Headline Nashville Fundraiser Thursday

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  Ken Whitehouse breaks the news that First Lady-in-waiting and vigorous opponent of a “dream ticket”, Michelle Obama, will be headlining an afternoon fundraiser right here in Music City for her husband’s presidential campaign on Thursday, May 15th. The shindig is set to be held at the home of [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:15pm Eastern Daylight Time by Kleinheider

Truman's Take

• Rising Gas Prices Goad Brentwood's Budget

  Gas prices affect Brentwood budget
  
  City leaders hope to avoid tax hike
  
  By CHARLES BOOTH
  
  BRENTWOOD — Rising gas prices and a slowing economy are putting the squeeze on Brentwood's budget for the next fiscal year, but City Manager Mike Walker said the city has [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:11pm Eastern Daylight Time

Smart City Memphis

• Getting The Comparables Right

  Some opponents of the Beale Street Landing project – which is vitally needed to reinvigorate a riverfront ready for embalming – have recently taken to asking how Memphis City Council can justify spending $29 million on the project while considering the closing of libraries and community centers.
  
  It sounds [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:07pm Eastern Daylight Time

• Aiming Higher For Our HBCU

  We’d feel better about our public tax money being funneled to a private college – Lemoyne-Owen College - if we were getting some signals that it’s making the kinds of strides that will set it on a new financial and academic foundation.
  
  One such indication would be that Lemoyne-Owen [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:44pm Eastern Daylight Time

ElephantBiz

• Happy Mother's Day

  From John and Roberta McCain... ...and all of us here at ElephantBiz. 

  

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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:03pm Eastern Daylight Time

LeftWingCracker

• Steve Mulroy and Smart City Memphis are right about Bass Pro; WHY is Robert Lipscomb so hell-bent to give up the store?

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  Ok, as today's CA story about the BPS debacle shows, at least there are people in this town, like Steve Mulroy and the good folks at SCM, that know that BPS is just trying to wear down the city of Memphis until we hand them free use of [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 7:09pm Eastern Daylight Time by LeftWingCracker

TennesseeTicket.com

• Registration drive nets scores of new voters

  Staffers and volunteers gathered on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga Saturday for the kickoff to "Vote for Change," a national voter registration effort sponsored by the Barack Obama campaign. Organizers say some 55 volunteers... [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 4:05pm Eastern Daylight Time

Nashville for the 21st Century

• Goin' Strait for Obama

  Crystal Strait, the DNC Committeewoman for the Young Democrats of America, has come out for Barack Obama.
  
  

  “While representing the Young Democrats of America at the DNC, my number one priority is to ensure that young people are fully represented at the polls and in the Party. [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 3:48pm Eastern Daylight Time by Sean Braisted

TaxingTennessee

• Tennessee Penny Post Cards

  Davidson County
  
  Tennessee [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 3:35pm Eastern Daylight Time

Tiny Cat Pants

• My Secret Identity

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  Oh, I forgot to tell you the weirdest, funniest part of this whole thing so far.  So, I’m talking on the phone with the banker, going over my credit report and she’s asking me about this charge and about that charge and there, on my credit report, is a loan [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 12:42pm Eastern Daylight Time by Aunt B.

Nashville for the 21st Century

• Department of Bad Movie Analogies

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  Congressman Cohen attempted to surgically remove his foot from his mouth after going on a local Fox affiliate where he said in reference to Sen. Clinton, "Glenn Close should have just stayed in the tub." Over at Egalia's house, Rep. Cohen left a comment apologizing for his remark:
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 12:14pm Eastern Daylight Time by Sean Braisted

Newscoma

• Jack’s Pool Hall In Paris

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  It looks like a juke joint and I would say it probably is. But sometimes you find wonderful things in places you least expect it. The mural in the back of this little dive off the court square in Paris holds one of the most fascinating murals I’ve ever seen. Squirrel Queen [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 12:08pm Eastern Daylight Time by newscoma

• Cuddle Parties

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  Huh? A Cuddle Party may look like a pajama party for grown-ups. It’s fun but there are rules. The number one rule, pajamas stay on the whole time. This is a non-sexual event. Okay, now that we have that out of the way you may ask yourself, what’s a cuddle party? “This is [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:16am Eastern Daylight Time by newscoma

noe4accountability

• May 11, 2008 Mother's Day

  I received an e-mail from a friend. I forwarded it to others and want to share it on as a blog post in honor of mothers everywhere on Mother's Day 2008.
  
  JUST A MOM?
  
  A woman, renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk 's office, was asked [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:16am Eastern Daylight Time

The Crone Speaks

• Abortion as a Terrorist Attack: Welcome to the Mother’s Day Parade

  On Saturday, Trinity Chapel, along with other churches and one hearse held a Fake Funeral to mourn aborted fetuses in Knox County, TN. But, even the local news can’t call the Fake funeral what it is, equating women as terrorists, they called it a Mock Funeral for “unborn babies.” About 350 [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:44am Eastern Daylight Time by archcrone

Newscoma

• Gone Country Demolition Derby

  SQ, our friend Trudy and I went to the Gone Country Demolition Derby last night. I have never been to a demolition derby. It was, in a word, different. I don’t think you can tell but it was raining like hell. We got muddy. With that said, I had a great time. I [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:22am Eastern Daylight Time by newscoma

• James Hart In His Sandwich Board

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  I’ve written about Hart before. Hart has run against John Tanner in the last two elections in District 8. He makes me nuts . With that said, I was in Paris yesterday and, if you didn’t know, Hart marches around the Henry County Courthouse in a sandwich board. I shot a [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:08am Eastern Daylight Time by newscoma

KnoxViews

• Happy Mother's Day!

  To you and yours.

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 10:02am Eastern Daylight Time by R. Neal

Bill Hobbs

• Democrats Dominate List of Candidates Who Failed to File Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures

  The Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported Thursday that 19 candidates for the state legislature have failed to file required conflict-of-interest disclosures. It is no surprise that most of them are Democrats.

  The TCPR examined races for 20 contested Hous