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The Commissioners have been stopping opponents of May Town Place from addressing that development in their comments in support of the Bells Bend Design Plan.  The first MTP proponent in a green "May Town Place" shirt just got up and spoke in favor of the development design and was allowed by the chair to complete her comments.

Assuming we permit a "second Downtown" to sprawl across Bells Bend in order to compete with Williamson County, what's to stop WillCo from upping the ante in the competition to attract relocating corporations by packaging a campus that is even more attractive than May Town Center?  Do proponents really think that our largely Republican neighbors to the south will sit by while it&nbsp

Christine Buttorff gives City Paper readers a break from Richard Lawson's pandering to the May Town Center development team by reporting the findings of a study commissioned by those trying to save Bells Bend as the last rural area close to Downtown (Buttorff inaccurately refers to it as the last "undeveloped" area around Downtow

Christine Kreyling gets knee-deep in the controversy over the proposed development in the Bells Bend area of Nashville:

Might be the fuel of the future - cheaper than gasoline, and producing lower carbon emissions - be the same thing you use to barbecue burgers?

Today's Nashville City Paper featured an excellent article written by John Rodgers reporting from the Promptness Sub-Committee meeting of the Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty. You can read more about the sub-committee meetings in previous blog posts.

The Hamilton County Board of Education will be deliberating on whether to renew Superintendent Jim Scales' contract tonight, even though that contract is in force for two more years.

The following was forwarded to me by Jeff Boothe. I've known Jeff for several years, and consider him a friend. He worked on Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield's staff in the 1970s and/or 1980s (he told me, but I don't remember exactly).

Looking in on the DNC's fight over seating delegates, it is amusing to watch as Democrats beat each other over the head with classic fallacious arguments.

The American Courthouse on judicial selection in Tennessee: