clarification

“Providing information to the public is an essential function of a representative government and an integral part of the routine duties and responsibilities of public officers and employees;”
- The Tennessee Legislature

(If your eyes glaze halfway through, at least read the last bit, okay?  Pinky swear you will.)

So, I wanted to make a clarification after yesterday’s post.

This email from Metro Planning's Craig Ow[e]nsby was posted on the Council District 17 listserv:

You want to know - Is it a Condo, Townhouse or PUD? (Don't call us)

We're getting a LOT more calls, about four times as many as in the past, asking whether a development is a condo (development) or townhouse (development) and/or what its common or private elements may be.

We recently received a memo from Robert Otwell to his hospital staff. We decided to publish it, it is not incriminating, it is simply a clarification of facts by him to his staff, and is as follows:

Today, I was driving Murfreesboro Rd. in L.A. (Lower Antioch) and a billboard caught my attention. It was for 103.3 WKDF. (side note: remember when WKDF played good music? people will make this observation for years.)

It said in big letters:
RICK MARINO IN THE MORNINGS. And it had a big picture of Rick Marino.

There isn't enough information in this Tennessean article to provide a clear understanding of the complaints of 'a group of Metro principals' but you do get the feeling that MNPS still thinks they're special and exempt from real world consequences.

my friends jennifer & david have started the process to adopt their first child. they are just salt of the earth people and erin & i love them dearly. they started a blog to give some updates on the process, which i have kept up with. their recent post has my mind just spinning...

I don't know if this qualifies as being in the same ballpark as a Stephen Glass or Jason Blair, as Newsmax is only considered a serious news organization inside the Conservative movement, but it appears that their reporter has been caught fibbin'. A "clarification":

Bill Hobbs adds some clarification to the story on the white separatist who appeared on the R