Yes, it's been weeks, centuries, and even years since I've written here at JustNashville, but the juices are flowing again, and it's time to offer my take on issues facing our fair city of Nashville with a dash of faith, a glob of justice, and the belief that communities CAN really come together to do... Continue Reading →
Get the churches to do it . . . they’ll do anything!
It’s been a week or longer since the CNN/Tea Party Republican debate, and frankly there is little I can nor want to say about that event, for the candidates and the conversation seem so far removed from the world that I inhabit that it’s hard to imagine that we are in the same astral plane.... Continue Reading →
Alert the Media–I agree with Gail Kerr
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I haven’t always been a fan of Gail Kerr, columnist and political propagandist for the Tennessean. And yet, in a shocking turn of events, this morning’s column was one that I agreed with. She wrote: It may be time for the appeals court to look inside the Nashville... Continue Reading →
Politician Buys 20,000 Pens For Voters
In the case of Davidson County Juvenile Court Clerk Vic Lineweaver and his pens, taxpayers footed the bill. An invoice from January of this year indicated Lineweaver bought $5,000 pens himself, but the I-Team's investigation is about pens handed out last year. via Politician Buys 20,000 Pens For Voters - Nashville News Story - WSMV... Continue Reading →
My Ethical Disconnect or the Nature of Hospitality
During the past weeks, we have spent much time thinking about the financial viability of the proposed convention center, probably too much along the way. There has been much debate on whether the projections are accurate, and whether the market can sustain the burden we are bearing. Throughout the conversation proponents of the MCC project... Continue Reading →