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Thank you John McCain for your VP nomination. You couldn't have served up an easier more inept target than Sarah Palin. In just 20 months as Governor, Palin has shown she is truly in the Republican religious right wing conservative mode of hypocrisy, corruption, abuse of power, and cronyism.

Money held over concerns about use
By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer • September 3, 2008

Metro schools went without millions in federal grants last school year because of a misfire during the application process that eventually led to a shakeup of top-ranked administrators.

From Friday’s NY Times.

Developer Tony Giarratana  is first up and he has 14 minutes.  He says that he is supportive of the deferral but he wants that deferral to be limited to the time it takes to answer the question.  He claims that the bridge will not be paid for publicly but he and the May Family will pay for it.  Promises not to accept either state or federal money for the development.

Williamson county resident's better hope that an election year may impede the enforcement of Federal penalties against our school system's Student Privacy violation OR we better get out our check books for higher property taxes.

Last fall, even as it began spending more than $8 million ito add an underground ballroom project to the governor's mansion, the Bredesen admininstration slashed funding for certain health services for the state's more than 6,000 mentally disabled children.

Bill Hobbs comments on the filing errors which led Tennessee to miss out on tens of millions of dollars in federal money for the mentally disabled.

With Democrats now in power in Congress, it appears that the D.C. school voucher program might soon be a thing of the past.

That was the message to a House Committee today, by such medical experts from the American Academy of Pediactrics.

Mike Byrd is concerned about the bling coming into our district because people are hopping onto the anti-earmark bandwagon: