edited by: Kate,
Tennessee Editor
This teachable moment brought to you by local-to-Nashville social media big-shot, Rex Hammock, who is seemingly tired of people finding fault with a new Twitter function unless they can actually alter that Twitter function with brawn and their bare hands:
Council District 5 challenger Jamie Hollin finished last night unofficially 3 votes ahead of Pam Murray (542-539), but he responded to the news that there are still 4 provisional votes remaining to be counted today with some misplaced swagger:
CM Kristine LaLonde's SP rezoning ordinance sailed through Metro Council public hearing tonight with no protest or debate, even though SP proposals have come to be lightning rods for some communities. In her comments CM LaLonde thanked the Hillsboro-West End neighborhood association and the developer [...] 
Kindred spirits, you know.
If there is absolutely one thing that MNPS food services has to get right is it implementing time-efficient business models for food delivery or is it insuring that little kids get healthy and balanced meals when they are at school? [...] 
If Parks Director Wilson's latest round of cuts to community & nature centers is adopted expect the parking lots at scenic Beaman Nature Center to remain empty more days of the week, more hours each day. We will just have to be satisfied with the splendor [...] 
At last night's Salemtown Neighbors meeting, Metro Police reported a shooting last weekend that broke out in a known "craps house" during a dice game. The craps house is located in a shot-gun cluster of tiny efficiency apartments at 1701 3rd Avenue, North. According to police [...] 
I won't be able to go to this Halloween Party because we'll be trick-or-treating-focused, but this sounds like a great time for those of you looking for something to do on Saturday night.
It's the concert that starts at 4:30 on Saturday, but rest of the day is full of events that stretch from Beaman Park to Bells Bend Park to the Cumberland River:Inventory of All Taxa: Biodiversity Study in the Park
9 am-Park Naturalist and [...]
According to Michael Cass:
Fresh off their bid to overbill Metro as convention center pitch men (including $10,000 to monitor local bloggers) and to charge the airport authority $10,000 to generate a holiday e-card and set up a Twitter page, McNeely Pigott and Fox is getting an [...] With President Obama breaking his promises to immigrant families and reform unlikely to come by till 2010, right now he is scores a big fat zero on the pro-migrant scale.
Due process violations, terrorizing home and workplace raids and malicious immigration [...]
Not that I belong to an anarcho-syndicalist commune, but sometimes blogging makes me feel like an annoying peasant.
Via Karen Y. Johnson (click on image to enlarge):
Originally the state and Metro Council 
The frightening story of a rape victim who was denied 
From the EPA website via 
StreetsBlog 
