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From the rumor mill:

Last night the Metro Council voted 22-15 to table Eric "English Only" Crafton's bill to exact interpreters fees on people whose primary language is not English. The 15 who voted with Crafton against the tabling motion include two at-large members who are supposed to be representing all of us: Tim Garrett and Charlie Tygard.

I'm going to have to watch the tape of last week's Metro Council debate on the Bellevue TIF--which devolved into incremental suck-ups--again, because the Southcomm snoop dog fingered CM Erica Gilmore as one of guilty parties sha

MNPS Children First Announces Free Health Fair
Saturday, August 9, from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., in the K-Mart parking lot located at 2491
Murfreesboro Road, the Antioch and Southeast Nashville community will hold the first

Thank you to all of the volunteers from the Southeast Davidson community who came out to help Mayor Karl Dean, his Director of the Mayor's Office of Children and Youth Danielle Mezera and the outstanding leaders of the First Day Festival. We were responsible for crowd control, helping to fill the backpacks, distribute flyers and prepare for the event.

OK, so we can disagree on the supposed wisdom of the May Town Center or whether a biz pig lobbyist can fashion himself a Democrat. We can even argue about whether all we (I?) do here at Pith is air petty gripes. Fine.

It was a Robert Duvall moment. You know -- that moment in "Apocalypse Now" when he steps out into the breaking dawn, takes a deep breath, and says, "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning ..." I...

The Antioch and Southeast Nashville community will hold its first Southeast Health Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in the K-Mart parking lot, 2491 Murfreesboro Pike.

The Tennessean spills some ink for the two Republican candidates seeking to lose to Jim Cooper this fall.