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While the City Paper is busy being Eric Crafton's tool on the issue of starting a petition to put an English Only referendum on the ballot (and the Tennessean coverage is just weak), the Nashville Scene's P.J. Tobia is actually blogging the controversy with a critical eye and actually keeping tabs on the opposition.

Southern Beale reports someone supportive of Eric Crafton’s English First charter amendment petition drive has commissioned robocalls to ramp up support for the project. The script:

Including this robocall, yesterday:

Please help Metro Councilman Eric Crafton make English the official language of city government in Nashville.

City Paper columnist Richard Lawson, writing today about the whole Bernhardt-Kleinfelter-McLean-AHR-Neighbors-Swiss Ridge mess is apparently perplexed about the notion of conflicts of interest in ci

With little to no news coverage of the event, city officials won approval of a sales tax increase in Morristown on Tuesday. A of 1,504 voted in the special election. Some 979 voted yes on the measure with 525 voting no.

With gas prices out of control and Nashville traffic skyrocketing, what is Nashville city government doing to enhance mass transit services to bring us into the 21st century?

Oregonian people experiencing homelessness are flexing their p

A proposition to increase City of Columbia property taxes by four cents will be voted on at their next meeting.

It seems to me by the way of my blog stats that the talk of La Vergne Tn today is racism and it seems people are tired of this in our city government. I am so glad that we the people arent going to put up with this at city hall anymore!! Let’s stand up [...]