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This is particularly disturbing, especially for those seniors in Nashville who are facing bankruptcy and the resultant change in lifestyle, since services that they will undoubtedly find necessary now are so scattered and fragmented that many of them will never be able to cover the distances without at least some additional assistance.

Michael Silence quotes a real estate blog re. an encouraging bump in sales for May.

Knoxville is lucky to have a fairly stable real estate market, owing, I think, to the abundance of stable government and government related jobs in the area.

Is anyone surprised that we're seeing this kind of uptick in credit disasters, especially for those folks who could barely afford to exist back when gas was 2 bucks a gallon?

Anyone at all?

When I read the headline "ATF chief: Crime rose as cities' funding dropped," I thought "ah-ha, they're going to blame this on Bush." Sure enough,

The latest Arbitron ratings for the Knoxville radio market show WIVK-FM is still the king but is losing audience at a fast pace:

(Source: All About Country)

Knox Co. had 6218 early votes yesterday, bringing the total to 27,659. The breakdown is 42% Democratic and 58% Republican, a slight uptick in Democratic turnout.

Today is the last day of early voting. Locations and times here, sample ballot here. Any registered voter can vote at any early voting location

It could be my imagination, but it seems like I’ve noticed a severe uptick lately in homeless alcoholics around town drinking mouthwash.. While the increase is merely anecdotal, it does make me wonder if more stores downtown are bowing to pressure and refusing individual beer sales on their own. Mouthwash, of course, is an unsavory but effective source of alcohol for alcoholics with no other recourse. I know that there’s been a lot of pressure from neighborhood groups in downtown

Heading into Michigan and South Carolina, and enjoying an uptick in interest and momentum following Thursday night’s GOP debate hosted at FOXNews, over the weekend the Thompson campaign released Fred’s plan to reduce Federal Spending. It’s not a particularly long read and it is thin on implementation. However, as a good overview on how Fred would address and approach spending and the budget process in general it’s quite good.

First Michael Yon warns us that January and February could bring an uptick in US casualties in Iraq due to what sounds to me like Al Queda’s final routing in Iraq.
Progress in Iraq is clear and palpable, but is of course tenuous. We can do well there if we listen to those [...]