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Subway decided to ban homeschoolers from a recent essay contest.

I was too busy with band to be on the debate team but I was asked to “spar” with them by a teacher who noticed my love (back then) for arguing in class.  I spent an afternoon debating to get the team ready for an upcoming meet.  And I learned something that day that has stuck with me:  The farther a person is from the fence the less likely they are to have their mind changed.&nb

Once again, rain is spoiling at least part of Memphis In May's "Beale Street" Music Festival.

When are the region's non-"classical" music fans going to demand that the date for the Festival be switched with the later and more rain-free weekend for the Sunset Symphony, which attracts far fewer and mainly local attendees who do not pump up tourism coffers?

The Columbia Daily Herald reports that the property tax less city long held out as model by anti-tax activists is looking at taxing property again:

Knox GOP in disarray:

Even while agreeing that better teacher pay is most likely also in order, I must respectfully disagree with S-Town Mike’s reactionary recoil against a community land trust for

This should be an indicator of the money flowing out of the City's coffers and into the pockets of those ... very special people ... with the blessing of the BOMA.

Denver preps for gentrification of another region....

In this week’s cover story—Outlawing the Poor—Jeff Woods tells of the conflict between downtown Nashville’s homeless population and the newly arrived high-rise condo dwellers.