In What May Be The Funniest Post Of The Day
It’s the earthworm comment and photo dramatization that slays me.Read more →
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Closed And/Or Crawling
R. Neal has a list of state buildings that are closed in Nashville as the waters begin to slowly recede. And K. Beckley took this photo a few minutes ago on Vietnam Veterans Blvd. A Crawl
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The Opposite Of Darkness Is Light
Now we know why we are called the Volunteer State. Encouraging words and observations from Bill Seaver. The irony of a bad situation is that it brings out many great things. It’s in the darkest places...
View ArticleTennessee Voices On The Flood
From our friend Paul Chenoweth Shelters are at capacity, missing people are unaccounted for, many homes are under water, we’re in a water conservation emergency, much of Nashville’s economic base is...
View ArticleThe Victims In The Tennessee Flood
Michael Silence has the list, the names and how they died. They woke up those days the same way we did, not knowing it would be their last day.
View ArticleForget It
From blogger Lori Lenz who writes about the lack of national media attention on the floods in middle Tennessee. So I was thinking…what’s different? Why aren’t we getting the media attention like other...
View ArticleNashville’s Homeless Are Forgotten
Jeff Woods reports that the homeless population and residents of Tent City in Nashville appear to be safe although it is still early. The recent flooding had Rep. Mike Turner worried. I am concerned,”...
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Morning Coffee – Day Six
Creeks are still jumping the banks into fields. When they devastate crop land you have to ask, what chemicals went back into the creek. As we said yesterday, we are trying to monitor damage to west...
View ArticleAARP Help In Tennessee
They tell you what happen. NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services lost its office to floods that devastated much of Middle and West Tennessee, but that hasn’t stopped them from working...
View Article$9.5 Million Dollars Estimated For Dyersburg In Flood Damage
Those are just the preliminary numbers taken from the sky. Preliminary estimates of damage caused by the flooding of the Forked Deer River reveal nearly $10 million worth of damage to homes and...
View ArticleNew Information And Cost Estimates Out Of Carroll County
From Jackson station WBBJ-TV. With the stores’ damage and other places as well as homes across town, Mayor Dale Kelley estimates the costs are in the millions. “We’re looking at somewhere around $3.7...
View Article$1.5 Billion in Estimates For Nashville
This list is getting depressing this evening and these, including Carroll and Dyer Counties, are just preliminary. Flood damages in Nashville alone are being estimated at $1.5 billion, a number the...
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Morning Coffee – Fatigue Sets In
Several bloggers met with elected democrats in Leadership yesterday in a planned visit for the second year. It was just a few of us, invited up, to discuss new media, blogging and online communication....
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Morning Coffee – Budget Pie
Tennessee has to have a balanced budget. Pesky rules and constitutional amendments and such but it has to be done. Gov. Phil Bredesen and democrats are going to battle this week with the GOP. It’s like...
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Rep. Mike Turner And Sen. Jim Kyle Say The Budget Isn’t A Gamey
Both democratic state party leaders have taken to the deadwood of the Tennessean to discuss their problems with the last-minute GOP introduced budget. The editorial says basically that this isn’t a...
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A Middle Tennessee Blogger Is Fed Up
Jim Voorhies is one of the calmest and level-headed guys I know on the ‘tubes. But recent legislation in this state has infuriated him and he says emphatically he has had enough. Tennessee no longer...
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40,000 Acres Of Farmland Under Water In Dyer County
West Tennessee Farm The Commercial Appeal has a story today on how farmer in west Tennessee have been impacted by this month’s flood. I mentioned in another post today of speaking to man that owns a...
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Humphrey Breaks Down The State Budget
No one does it better than Tom Humphrey. This, my friends, is what this week in Nashville is going to be about. Perhaps the most interesting pieces of the current Tennessee budget puzzle, which our...
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A Brave Mother
KAG Anyone who blogs in Tennessee has read Katie Allison Granju. She’s a power house when it come to writing and she’s never walked away from writing about the tough stuff. Miscarriages, divorce, a new...
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Gaylord To Lay Off 1,700 Employees
Breaking from WKRN: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Gaylord Entertainment Company announced plans Wednesday to release more than 1,700 employees at its Opryland Resort in the wake of historic flooding that hit the...
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