renovation

I saw a story on WATE about the destruction of the old cafeteria building and on the site of the former Morristown College. But check out this opening line from the coverage of the Morristown's newspaper, a line written by the paper's managing editor, John Guillion.

A simple question. Should the town use your tax money to fund a 'business' that openly competes with private businesses?

The other day the Tennessee Center for Policy Research shopped a story to the Tennessean regarding the First Lady of Tennessee, Andrea Conte, and her aptly named non-profit venture to raise funds to renovate the Governor's mansion for future TN Governors.

An online store started by First Lady Andrea Conte to defray the cost of the Executive Residence renovations has been losing proposition:

If it wasn’t in the paper we might have missed this one. Another Bush staffer quits.

Steve Gill this morning was talking with his listeners (or at them) and raised an interesting beef about the Bredesen administration’s proposed buyout of state employees.

While I was reading Carrington's review of Mad Donna's this week—you should check it out if you haven't already, it's one of her best—this passage struck me: