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Saturday, December 19, 2020
The mayor's $1.6 million transportation plan is the wrong plan for Nashville.
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Friday, December 18, 2020
Families Flock to the Nashville Suburbs for Good Schools, Low Taxes and Some Southern Charm
By Beth DeCarbo, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 17, 2020 11:00 - In downtown Franklin, Tenn., a giant Christmas tree and Victorian-era storefronts draw flocks of shoppers in search of very merry merchandise. This chic charm is wooing scores of new home buyers, too.
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
How members of the Council voted on derailing the closing of Bordeaux Nursing Home.
by Rod Williams - On the December 1st agenda of the Metro Council was a resolution asking the mayor to stop the process of winding down the closing of the Metro-owned long-term care nursing home in the Bordeaux community of Nashville. The facility at that time had less than 15 people remaining at the site. Metro has been in the process of finding other homes for the residence since September and has placed approximately one hundred residents elsewhere. It is not anticipated there will be difficulty in finding beds for the remaining patients at Bordeaux as there is adequate capacity at nearby facilities. The rational for halting the closing of the facility was to keep the residents safely in place during the pandemic.
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Only 15 percent of Tennessee Republicans believe Biden won election
By Carrie Moore, Vanderbilt University - Only 12% of Republican voters in Tennessee are confident that nationwide votes were counted fairly and accurately, as compared to 97% of Democrats. Even when assessing the accuracy of the vote count within the state, Republicans still expressed more doubt about the accuracy of the results than did Democrats.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The Beacon Center's 12 days of pork, #8: Valets should pay.
The Beacon Center- At a time when Nashville has abused our tax dollars in the midst of a crisis and is now hitting up taxpayers for even more money, we hate to be the bearers of bad news but it gets even worse.
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Tennessee is the top state for fiscal stability
by Rod Williams - US News and World Repot in its Dec. 11, 2020 editions ranks Tennessee as the top state for fiscal stability. It’s followed by Florida, South Dakota, North Carolina and Utah to round out the top five. The study looks at things like government credit rating scores, pension fund liability, budget balancing and liquidly.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Rev. Al Sharpton hired by TSU as a Distinguished Guest Lecturer to teach in the area of political science grounded in social justice.
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Tennessee State University announced it has hired MSNBC host and progressive activist Rev. Al Sharpton as a Distinguished Guest Lecturer.
Beginning in January 2021, Sharpton will teach “in the area of political science grounded in social justice during the academic term.” (link) |
by Rod Williams- This is an embarrassment. Al Sharpton is an anti-Semite, a race-baiter, and a con artist. The State legislature should reduce any appropriation to Tennessee State University equal to the amount of money paid to Al Sharpton.
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The Road to socialism should not run through Georgia. Now is the time to step up to the plate. Freedom hangs in the balance.
by Rod Williams, 12/15/2020 - Yesterday early voting started in Georgia for the January 5 Senate runoff elections. Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock are challenging incumbent GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. These races weren't decided in November's elections because no one received a majority of the vote in either contest so the top two vote-getters in each race are in a runoff. Early voting ends on December 31.
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Robert Duvall, Rest in Peace
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Only an idiot would require a sidewalk to be build like this. Why can we not sanely build sidewalks?
by Rod Williams, 12/13/2020- Please look at these pictures. This was taken yesterday while I was taking a walk, on a street that runs between Belmont Blvd. and 12th Ave. South. Out of many city blocks with sidewalks, this is the only lot with a portion of the sidewalk not aligning with the existing sidewalk. it sticks out like a sore thumb. This is nuts!
Not only do we tear up perfectly good sidewalks to replace them with clean new sidewalks, and not only do we spend millions on building sidewalks but get almost no new sidewalks where sidewalks did not exist before to show for it, and not only do we burden homeowners who want to remodel there home by making them pay for new sidewalks, and not only do we increase the cost of housing and hasten the demise of affordable housing by our sidewalk policy, we also build sidewalks stupidly.
For more on our inability to sanely build sidewalks see the following:
Perfectly Serviceable Sidewalks being Ripped up and Replaced with New Sidewalks!
Why are they tearing up perfectly good sidewalks?
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The Beacon Center's 12 days of pork, #6: Freezing out the taxpayers. Shelby County's freeze on new hires only lasts one month.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
The Beacon Center's 12 days of pork, #5: Bluff City Flaw. A $1.4 million subsidy for a show cancelled after one season.
The Beacon Center - A few years ago, when Memphis and the state handed millions of tax dollars to the upcoming show “Bluff City Law,” we told them what would happen.
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