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When can the poor and hopeless buy their tickets, already?
The muckety mucks who will oversee the state’s new lottery have finally been chosen, after months of irrelevant bickering about who could choose them and why. Gov. Phil Bredesen appointed the seven lottery board members after interviewing some 50 or more people about the volunteer positions. Among the governor’s picks were Denny Bottorff, a former Nashville banking executive who’s now chairman of a venture capital firm, and Deborah Story, president of an executive search consulting firm. State officials hope the lottery is in place by January or February.
Will Purcell throw the first pitch?
In a Sunday Tennessean story, Mayor Bill Purcell offered perhaps the most promising signs to date that his administration would support a new baseball stadium for the Nashville Sounds. Saying that any help the city might offer would be “modest,” Purcell nevertheless sounded positive about a replacement for the aging Greer Stadium. As for a new convention center, which pretty much all Nashville hoteliers except Gaylord are pushing for, Purcell has gone from skeptical in previous months to noncommittal.
When a disability really is a disability
Be on the lookout for the lazy-eyed bank robber. Police are searching for a man who robbed a Bank of America branch on Murfreesboro Road Saturday, threatening a teller and walking away with a wad of cash. The man has sandy hair, green eyes and a hefty sense of fearlessness.
The beetles have landed
Bag the bugs? Or don’t bag the bugs? For gardeners, that’s the question now that the seasonal Japanese beetles have landed on roses, tomatoes, tropicals and everything else. Here’s the answer: If you’ve got a decent amount of property where you can place the beetle traps far, far away from the plants you’re trying to protect, do it. If not, you’re just gonna attract more than what you’d have in the first place.
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