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Jeff Woods points to Pat Nolan’s column which points out that the new rezoning proposal for Metro Schools and the accompanying promises of increased funds for Pearl Cohn will be hard to accomplish without a

Senior Writer Jeff Woods, who seems to have been channeling Tim Wise in his recent coverage of the Metro schools rezoning plan, is unimpressed with Mayor Karl Dean’s comments in support of the plan:

Jeff Woods thinks so:

Maybe Dean didn’t help apply the pressure for resegregation. But at this point, until they tell us otherwise, we can only assume the mayor and his so-called progressive colleagues are all OK with it.

According to the NashPo blog, School Board Member Karen Johnson seemingly cast the deciding vote (5-4) to pass the rezoning plan that establishes post-desegregation-era neighborhood schools without any mechanism for preventing the resegregation of Nashville public sc

Jeff Woods, in a post exploring the revelation of possible open meetings violations by the school board, calls the school rezoning plan set to be voted on today a “public-policy disaster.”

The always cynical Jeff Woods actually sees authenticity in the political persona of Jeff Woods:

Sean Braisted reviews the latest chapter in the Nashville Scene’s anti-Waller crusade:

PiTW has the news on the House Appropriation Committee's rejection along partisan lines of Jim Coopers attempts at bipartisan accords on cutting spending.  Jeff Woods wants to know if Middle Tennessee can have its earmarks back now.  Did we ever deserve to lose them in the name of bipartisa

Jeff Woods handicaps the race for state house in District 52. It appears he has a favorite:

Jeff Woods reports that predominately white “urban pioneers” are lobbying to be exempted from a plan to rezone Metro schools into neighborhood schools.