edited by: Kate,
Tennessee Editor
Chris Sanders highlights its importance:
Local GLBT newspapers play a vital role in not only reporting the news, but giving a community a sense of itself. It would be difficult to gauge the role that Inside Out Nashville, Out & About Newspaper, and the Triangle Journal have played over the [...]
Homeless advocate Steven Samra on the death of his friend:
Elringo De’Angelino, aka Velvet Thunder, was a local icon here in Nashville Tennessee. He’d spent the better part of the past 30 years on 2nd Avenue, singing on the street to anyone and everyone who’d lend their ears for [...]
This week's Nashville court decision about "guns in bars" leads to our question of the weekend for reader response and comment. [...] 
In a recent development regarding the attempted ousting of Constitutional Conservative, Matt Collins from the Davidson County Republican Party (more on this story here and here), it turns out that an e-mail of Mr. Collins' was leaked to a local online newspaper.The USPS pared its list to 241, 35 percent fewer than the last potential closure list which included 371 offices. The three Nashville locations — Donelson, Northeast and Glenview — were not among the 130 saved.
[...]NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Nashville judge finds new state law allowing guns in bars unconstitutional due to vagueness. -- More.
SayUncle: I don't see how this ruling will stand. Seems that they presumed the onus of knowing restaurant laws was on permit holders. Bonnyman's ruling is pretty asinine. [...]
From Ken Whitehouse:
General Sessions Judge Aaron Holt has dismissed the harassment charge filed against country singer John Rich.
Former Nashville Star contestant Jared Ashley had claimed that Sebastian Bach and John Rich left a harassing voice mail on Ashley’s phone.
[...]Seasonally Adjusted Rate Unchanged from September
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for October was 10.5 percent, unchanged from the September rate of 10.5 percent.
“While the national unemployment rate increased to 10.2 percent, Tennessee’s unemployment rate held steady at [...]
From the Murfreesboro Post:
The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center in Nashville today announced that it will continue to support and recommend that its patients follow guidelines for the early detection of breast cancer established by the American Cancer Society.
The announcement comes on the heels of a new study released this [...]
From the comments at Tiny Cat Pants:
You know the percentages of our young men who are convicted felons. They are our lost generation. Do you know how many of our community members can’t get a drivers licenses? Nashville has even created a special designation for us: HO(pronounced like it [...]
From a recent fundraising email:
The big team news this week is the opening of our headquarters at 917 8th Ave S. in Nashville!!
The staff, dedicated volunteers and others have already logged many hours at the headquarters as we continue to get things into top shape. And that’s where you [...]
If you’d think that the self-appointed leader of tea partiers in Nashville wouldn’t want to predict the preferences of a large, diverse and centralized movement, you be wrong:
“We plan to be very involved in the governor’s race,” says Phillips, adding that they’ll be using the group’s Internet presence as [...]
Do you know someone who is? You should nominate them:
“Nashville InCharge is the definitive list of businesspeople and community leaders who are writing Music City’s success story. It is not a beauty contest or social register, but our best attempt at bringing you the people who are shaping Middle [...]
Betsy Phillips paints a word picture of what it is she think Sheriff Daron Hall is doing trying to enforce immigration laws here in Nashville:
It’s like Hall is standing in a high spot in the river at Tiptonville, trying to scoop out the blue water from the brown, in [...]
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:From the blog of Nashville’s gay newspaper:
Some gay and lesbian voters may be reluctant to consider voting for Herron because of his religiosity. In his book, God and Politics, he writes, “I do, however, write–and serve–out of my own faith, and I pray my experiences will be useful to [...]
The convention will take place February 4 thru February 6 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel:
Tea Party Nation is pleased to announce the First National Tea Party Convention. The convention is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking [...]
Mayor Karl Dean’s proposal to turn the former Bob Frensley car dealership on Charlotte Avenue into a new $14 million West Police Precinct and crime lab received overwhelming Metro Council approval Tuesday night.
Despite vocal opposition from some west Nashville Council members, the panel voted 34 to 5, [...]
Politico takes notice:
Zelenik, the Rutherford County Republican party chairwoman, still faces a tough road for the nomination. She faces a competitive Republican primary against businessman Kerry Roberts and military veteran Dave Evans. Her most serious GOP challenger, though, looks like GOP state senator Jim Tracy, who told NashvillePost.com that [...]
He says it will bankrupt the states:
“I picked up my newspaper in Nashville on Sunday morning, and here was the headline: ‘Governor Bredesen Faces Painful Choices as Tennessee Begins Budget Triage.’ That’s the sort of talk you usually reserve for an emergency room. I have said several times that [...]
From the keyboard of J.R. Lind:
Sources say the Nashville-based guitar manufacturer is charged with violating the Lacey Act, a key piece of environmental law, for importing endangered species of rosewood from Madagascar. Rosewood is widely used in the construction of guitars and sells for $5,000 per cubic meter.
It appears that the Metro Nashville City Council will be reconsidering guns-in-parks:
Councilman Sam Coleman wants to allow guns in Metro's rural parks, so visitors to isolated parks could protect themselves.
The thing I find interesting is that Sam Coleman was one of the most vocal opponents of [...]
Tennessee Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker, who serves as the second-ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is hosting “Water for the World,” an event at the Gordon E. Inman Center at Nashville’s Belmont University on Monday, November 23. The “Water for the World” event will [...]
Gubernatorial candidate Ward Cammack says we need it:
Nashville businessman Ward Cammack said energy efficiency and independence are important to keeping money within Tennessee. He also stressed the need for Tennessee to be part of a national high-speed rail system.
“To not have high-speed rail is like saying we were going [...]
