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From Janel Lacy:

Mayor Karl Dean will kick off the MTA Easy Ride program for Metro employees with a bus ride to work on Wednesday morning. Dean will arrive at Shelter B on the Transit Mall downtown at approximately 8:15 a.m.

Amy Griffith with the City Paper looks at the Metro Budget and finds some politicians clamoring for more money to pay for school bus 'monitors':

Rex Noseworthy reports on a local television station’s absence from an important Metro council meeting:

Channel 4 called the Barry house during the gathering and said, “We weren’t at the Council meeting, can someone there tell us if anything important happened?”

By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • June 18, 2008

By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • June 10, 2008

The school system’s proposed budget would likely result in property owners paying more in taxes to fund education.

The new budget reflects 6.5 million less from the State than the earlier budget. It also does not include a State 10% Teacher raise but they will get their estimated 2 million Step Increase. The new budget includes 1.4 million for inflationary increases in bus fuel.

By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer (tennesseam) • May 8, 2008

Metro Council to look at mayor's budget deadline again
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • May 9, 2008

You see, they are the righteous pro-hunting, pro-conservation, pro-gun group!