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The LPGA is getting into the intolerance act by requiring its golfers to communicate only in English. It may or may not have the intended effect:

I just got a call from Joy Ford of Country International Records. She told me that within the hour her attorney, Scott Bullock of Institute for Justice was notified by Nashville’s MDHA that they were postponing their motions scheduled to be heard in court tomorrow.

I just got a call from Joy Ford of Country International Records.

An amended proposal to place a volunteer-run homeless shelter and child care center on North Main Street will be presented to the Shelbyville City Council next week, removing a request for rezoning,...

Pete Kotz on the conservative tendency to immediately excoriate anyone who tries to form consensus outside of dogma:

It may be a technicality, and it may be short-lived, but anything that makes English Only less likely to become law is a good thing, in my opinion:

English First fails on a legal technicality ... for now:

In a letter to the Davidson Country [sic] Election Commission, the Metro director of law stated that the English Only charter amendment proposal cannot appear on the November ballot because of a legal technicality.

Nate Rau with the breaker:

In a letter to the Davidson Country Election Commission, the Metro director of law stated that the English Only charter amendment proposal cannot appear on the November ballot because of a legal technicality.

The Citypaper August 25, 2008

Whatever’s in the water in Antioch made for an uncomfortable, yet entertaining, Metro Council meeting last week.Standing front and center in the controversial spotlight was Antioch Councilwoman Vivian Wilhoite, whose lengthy monologues have produced many an eye roll from her colleagues this Council term.