disservice

Black leaders have been counting on the new school board to overturn the controversial student rezoning plan. The key vote? Alan Coverstone, who replaced board chair Marsha Warden, a strong advocate for the rezoning plan.

Whose Right?

Say what you will about him being a crazy religious bastard, and perhaps he can't be believed, but I wish there was an American politician that would point out the simple truth that in the last 60 years nuclear weapons have done nothing but expend billions upon billions of dollars (4 trillion+ according to some estimates) on technology that will, in most likelihood, never be used.

My blogging has taken a back seat to my work schedule recently, and I resent the fact that I have neglected this project. Quite a few people read this blog on a semi-regular basis, and I feel that I am doing them a disservice by not regularly updating it; therefore, I will try my hardest to update this site more frequently.

This is a great idea and it should be expanded. I have argued here previously that access - even limited access - is a necessity for homeless individuals who are trying to obtain services, find employment, or make appointments.

Despite a 2004 audit that called for Metro Social Services to outsource its nutrition and homemaker services, the public agency announced Monday that it will continue to provide both services directly.

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people can be, especially considering that in this particular instance, the author of the piece below, Mr Watts, seems quite capable of using a computer and as such has all the research power he needs at his fingertips.

At-Large Council Member Megan Barry sent the following letter to the rest of the Metro Council late this afternoon:

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry, Megan (Council Member)
Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 4:08 PM
To: Council Members
Subject: FW: task force

Publius has a post discussing theories of constitutional interpretation. This, of course, means that a fight (but since its Obsidian Wings, it’s a very genteel, intelligent fight) over original intnet and its imitators has broken out.

"The average person might lump the homeless all together, but Boyer found in her study that street people are all types and getting the drug-addicted homeless off the streets is different from helping alcoholic, mentally ill or young homeless."

Lumping folks into one category - "the homel