metro water

The Metro Council has decided to put off changing the late fee scheme of the water department. So before you click to a more interesting post or start surfing for nekkid ladies, let me explain why this is bad.

What if one day Metro Water tells you that you drank and bathed in water mixed with sewerage for four months?

The kids at the City Paper have boxed themselves into such an editorial corner that they can only see one solution to meeting Nashville's infrastructure needs: trading a part of Nashville's common wealth to a land speculator and a property owner who will stand to make the kind of returns that George W.

Good evening Mr. Penney:

Thank you for your "assessment" report. I really appreciate it. Based on our recent meeting on June 19, 2008, I had kindly asked for some additional information to be provided with your assessment.

The Metro Council Member most qualified to evaluate proposals for Metro Water Service fee hikes did as I expected she would and came out against any proposed fee increases that don't go directly back into MWS programs. In fact, she argues that many such fee increases are illegal.

While I appreciate good intentions of Progressive Nashville's call for a water rate increase to fund Metro Transit, I suspect that the people who know our water system inside and out will tell you that any coming raise needs to be ploughed back into our the water system itself to pay for stormwater run-off infrastructur

Our Guv is in serious jockey mode right now and the strategy he seems focused on is one that puts him in position to show as the horse race enters the stretch run.

Our Guv is in serious jockey mode right now and the strategy he seems focused on is one that puts him in position to show as the horse race enters the stretch run.