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Lola Potter, the public information officer for the Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration who has stonewalled me on my open-records request for video shot at the governor's mansion underground ballroom blasting site since mid-March, finally caved in today and agreed to let me view the v

In what looks like another rather half-baked, milque-toast, lawyer-measured statement, Karl Dean supports the school board's rezoning plan:

Amy Griffith reports that at a community meeting led by Councilman and Reverend Jerry Maynard an appeal was made for Mayor Karl Dean to join the fight against school rezoning. Only one problem, he appears, more or less, to be for it:

The Bredesen administration recently claimed - without any support in state law - that some emails created by state government employees on state government computers aren't public records (even though state law clearly says they are) because the emails are "personal" rather than related to state business.

Apparently cutting edge, innovative approaches don't include stripping for clothes....

• A report says the first Portuguese citizen convicted of illegally downloading music has received a 90-day prison sentence. (The Portugal News)

Of course he won’t! That election is over! The lies served their purpose, and now it’s time to move on, folks! I mean my God, we all knew it wasn’t true! That’s the point of these smear campaigns--they don’t have to be true!

BAC posted something I didn’t know. In all the hoopla recently over Tim Russert and George Carlin passing away, she alerts us to the passing of a comedienne that I really thought was fun.

Lipscomb University announces that a Saturday, June 28, talk by Shaun Casey, the faith advisor to the Barack Obama campaign, and Stephen Monsma, theologian and author, will now be open to the public. The one-on-one discussion will be held at 10:30 a.m.