davidson county residents

There's plenty of reasons to stay out of your car these days. The rising cost of gas. July heat that can make the front seat of a Civic feel like the inside of a rotisserie. Bumper sticker-induced bouts of rage.

Anyone who has tried to get some help through MAC prior to July 1 discovered that they'd "plumb run outta money," as one of the ladies I spoke with there told me while trying to help an elderly man fill a script.

I have sent probably close to 100 people in their direction since the first of July, as this was the

She pretty much told CM Charlie Tygard t

Information from Metro Public Works press release, via email from Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association:

SATURDAY IS HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION DAY
Metro residents can recycle items at Bellevue, Green Hills and Old Hickory drop-offs

While I have not waited to contact the three credit record companies to place a fraud alert on my records (I actually only requested an alert from one of them and before I got the Metro letter notifying me of the laptop theft, I received letters from all three acknowledging the alert), I have held off applying for identity theft insurance, in order to give one of the players in this sorry saga a chance to step up and do the right thing.

The Tennessean reports this morning that Metro's Legal Office is asking private security contractor Wackenhut to pay $100,000 for the $109,000 mailing Metro Election Commission is paying to notify all Davidson County residents warning of Christmas Eve laptop theft (which means, I guess, that Metro rather than the state funds MEC mailings--hasn't the State been conspicuously mum on this matter?).