TennesseeTicket

Early voting for the August 7 election started yesterday, and will continue through August 2. Some bloggers have begun posting their endorsements for the federal and state primaries, as well as--and this is perhaps where you should pay most attention, should you live in the vicinity--for county elections.

Please see Chattanoogan and TFP coverage of the HUD report on Chattanooga Housing Authority's finances.

I'll have commentary later.

I have started a voter guide series over at Chattarati. So far, I have outlined the choices for the following offices:

The Chattanooga Times Free Press has published a special edition today.

This is a big day for our little city.

Developing story: An email I just received states that a Hamilton County official (whom I won't name until I can get confirmation) was just telling* a small group of other local "heavy hitters" that Chattanooga will be chosen as the new site for a Volkswagen manufacturing plant.

Developing story: An email I just received states that a Hamilton County official (whom I won't name until I can get confirmation) was just telling* a small group of other local "heavy hitters" that Chattanooga will be chosen as the new site for a Volkswagen manufacturing plant.

I know; a far greater number of Americans have been mindlessly rubbernecking a "beauty" pageant contender's misstep than even know about The New Yorker Magazine and its supposedly controversial cover.

During the break between Up with the Joneses and Bonerama on Friday evening, I ran into District 2 School Board candidate Dr. Joe Dumas, who was drumming up support for his bid to unseat Chip Baker. Standing near him were District 4 candidate Gregg Juster, who is aiming to replace incumbent Debra Matthews, and District 1 School Board member Rhonda Thurman, who is unopposed.

I first caught the news as twittered by Jonathan Mason, then found a Chattanoogan.com link at Alice's blog.

Sometime or other, I got the idea that I should keep TennesseeTicket.com focused solely on politics, elections, and news, and push the rest of the things I like to write about off to other blogs. I don't really know why; plenty of other politics, elections and news bloggers that I read regularly mix in notes about photography, music, technology, food, entertainment, or cats.