interstates

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Vermont-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. is looking to purchase a "334,000-square-foot building in the Forks of the River Industrial Park for $10.5 million" for a packaging and distribution center. The new facility will employ approx. 360 workers.

Aunt B. takes issue with Bill Hobbs assertions about the progressive inclinations of a neighborhood surrounding a local Harris Teeter grocery store:

The Professor is slowly but surely returning to one of the things he does best--writing.  When he's in the mood he writes like Clapton plays--soulful.  I like this post about his Wanderlust. 

So, the conservatives of our fine state are up in arms because the governor wants to put in some toll roads and I’m really suspicious of anything the conservatives want that appears to make sense on the surface.

On my commute into work each day I go through communities that, let’s be nice, adhere to the speed laws pretty strictly. Lakewood is one. The limit is 45 mph and there is always either a policeman readily visible waiting to pull someone over or sitting there behind someone with their lights flashing away.

It’s that time of year–time to pick your brackets. While the official brackets won’t come out until Sunday evening, I’ve gone ahead and set up a Yahoo! Brackets contest for the Music City Bloggers crowd.

You will have to sign up for a Yahoo account if you don’t have one. But they’re free.

We won’t have any fabulous prizes available, nor will I offer to sing the fight song of your favorite team if you win. Instead, we’ll just say

As of 10 pm CST...

Memphis Int'l: 4.2 inches
Perry County: 5.0 inches
Nashville: At least 1.5 inches...
White House: 2.0 inches (just in an hour and a half)

Here in Cookeville...freezing rain and sleet along with thunder...however, snow is moving our way...

Interstates near Nashville are snow covered and dangerous.

More later....

After more than two years as a Murfreesboro-Nashville commuter, I’ve learned there are several truths about Nashville-area drivers. The No. 1 truth I have discovered, and I believe a commenter on Music City Bloggers mentioned this once, is that drivers on Nashville’s interstates take being passed as a sign of weakness. It doesn’t matter if they only want to travel at 73 mph. If someone tries to pass them, they will speed

It just wouldn't be right for you to be left with only the mayor's version of the 578.58 miles we travelled together.