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Sean Braisted posted the names of every Davidson County resident who signed the English Only (foreign language ban) petition. See Sean's post here, which also includes a link to the downloadable Excel file.

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The TNDP has released some documents associated with the State Democratic Primary Board meeting which decided (or rather failed to decide) the outcome of the Senate District 22 primary involving Rosalind Kurita and Tim Barnes.

The list of Executive Committee Members who were voted is available here.

The Davidson County Democratic Executive Committee passed a forceful resolution in opposition to the proposed charter amendment to make English the only language of Davidson County. The group urges opposition to the ballot initiative, and asks requests that people who have signed it call the Election Commission to have their name removed.

The old black woman from Memphis, Rep. Steve Cohen, is introducing a bill which would require the Attorney General to "create a pilot program to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system within 10 U.S. districts across the country."

Fred Hobbs, the embattled member of the Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee, who last week wondered aloud to the City Paper as to whether or not Sen. Obama had ties to terrorism, has seen the error of his ways and written a letter to his colleagues on the committee:

The historical downtown district might need to be renamed simply "Historical district" because a move is on to grow.

The most recent attempt to "grow" was voted down as blogged so well by our anonymous guest in his two part post [1,2]. I now have a pdf of how much they were going to grow.

Here is the town workshop agenda for tomorrow night. To my delight they do have as item 17 a "Discussion relative to Smyrna Municipal code 10-101 and 10-102 regarding animals running at large and ordinances restricting certain animals from being kept near a business or residence." Hopefully they will add it to the agenda for next month's town meeting.

I addressed the town council tonight on the issue of allowing people the ability to raise fowl in residential areas. Before I addressed them I gave them a handout that had three sections.

Section 1 had a list of other large cities that allow fowl to be raised and what limits they had.

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