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Kay Brooks is doing what the local media ought to be doing on the story of the Music Row-area woman whose property the city is trying to take - via eminent domain - in order to give it to a wealthy real estate developer. Today, Brooks reports on a walking tour of the neighborhood and compares the targeted property with the properties around it.

***Hi Friends, This is a repost from Jan. 1st. All my friends were posting resolutions and I had to join in the fun. Sorry about mixing in posts from my archives. We are still without a job/home/sanity. ;)***

This is yet another post about woman stuff, so if you're male and reading this, you might want to stop right now and find something else to read. Why not take a look at Keith Olbermann's Countdown site ? Trust me, you'll be glad you did.

The New Jersey legislature is considering a bill that would limit gun owners to one gun purchase per month.

We are back out of the wilderness and fun that was PAPA fest. It was a good time, I might blog about it a little later, good and disappointing, but overall it was a nice little trip. The kiddo did great with tent camping and handled the hot summer days pretty well.

I loves me some Cuban food. No matter how high fuel prices get, we pretty regularly make a trek from our little shack in the Westland Ghetto to Taste of Havana on Tazwell Pike. TOH used to be at Kingston Pike and Lovell Road, but it seems like they made a good decision to change locations, even if it’s not as convenient for us.

There are two critical developments affecting rezonings in Knoxville and Knox County of which all neighborhood groups should be aware.

The Senate GOP, even though it is in the minority, recently blocked a travesty of a global warming bill that would have represented a massive tax and regulatory increase on the American people for absolutely no good reason at all.