entire city

I was browsing the airport gift shop in Orly a few years ago, trying to find something so that I could spend my remaining francs before returning home, and a man, obviously in a hurry, plopped down a case of cigarettes on the checkout counter.

A few years ago, the city council in Spring Hill, Tennessee, a fast-growing suburb of Nashville, voted to enact a local "Taxpayers Bill of Rights," which prevented property tax increases without a referendum.

Bill Hobbs points out that the scenario that played out in Spring Hill resulting in a property tax hike cannot happen in Nashville:

Regardless of what happens to the fair itself, I agree with those who say it would be nuts for Metro to sell so much public greenspace to developers instead of making it something valuable to the entire city as well as the surrounding neighbor

Mayor Admits Current Situation Is Problem
Reported By Marc Stewart

POSTED: 10:35 am CDT March 28, 2008
UPDATED: 10:53 am CDT March 28, 2008

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two studies reveal that Nashville's own government has been overlooking minorities when it comes to bidding on city contracts.

A word to any Tibetans with a deathwish. Wait until all of the world’s cameras are there. Wait until all of the athletes have arrived. Then have a massive protest.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that housing and services for the mentally ill have critical shortages. Mental health deregulation simply forced states that were woefully unprepared to take on the responsibility for their mentally ill citizens. Of course, no money was provided with this sly "unfunded mandate," so counties and cities were quickly overwhelmed and drained their meager mental health budgets on about the first five folks who showed up with bags in hand.

Alderman Pearl Bransford, who is a Third Ward resident herself, says she's keeping an open mind about the candidates' qualifications but knows what she wants:

And now its official. Andy Cordan on the theft of 337,000 Social Security numbers by smash and grab compared thieves:

And here is the symbolic sand in the eye to me. The break in happened on December 24th. Today, as I write this, it is January 11th.

Another candidate, Deborah Faulkner, has submitted her application: State inspector general wants to be Franklin alderman

While friends and colleagues encouraged her, Faulkner, 56, said no single thing spurred her to apply. [Ohhhh ... those are shivers running down my spine]