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The Mayor of New York City has just “ordered the city’s more than 100 agencies to provide language assistance in six foreign languages.”

While there may be some logic to this for New York City, no one can deny that it will increase costs significantly at each of those 100 agencies. And who will pay those costs?

Jackie Dowd, over at the 13th Juror, is reporting some disturbing news on Sanford Florida's Project Homeless Connect.

The new school zoning lines were drawn to make the district run more economically by filling up schools that now have too few students and closing others. At least that's what the plan's advocates have been insisting.

It’s kind of sad when editorialists, lacking something meaningful to say about an actual issue, manufacture a controversy and then make [bleep] up to support an imaginary viewpoint.

Steve Gill goes on a straight rant against Tom Leatherwood’s role in the Great Income Tax Debate. Gill takes issue with John Rodgers’ article in the City Paper which portrays Marsha Blackburn and Leatherwood as equally against the income tax:

The curmudgeonly Tim Chavez is still underwhelmed by Barack Obama’s outreach to the Hispanic community:

Plans are under way to bring a neuter clinic to Maury County as officials and advocates for controlling the pet population in Tennessee gathered for a conference at Columbia State Community College Saturday.

The Nashville City Paper's Richard Lawson has written another tired and disjointed screed that does the very thing he accuses neighborhood leaders of doing: demonizing his opponents, neighborhood leaders.

Since I arrived in Nashville, I've been arguing that we must create public-private partnerships in order to fully fund and support the progams and resources needed to assist those experiencing homelessness beyond the "3 hots and a cot" band-aid approach currently employed by most of us who do this for a living.

I had a rough couple of days. I want to be clear that those days had nothing to do with me other than letting some rather disgusting business get under my skin.