Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Morning Roundup

Posted by Liz Garrigan on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:45 AM

Mayor Karl Dean is persona non grata among state fair supporters. ... Metro Council member Eric Crafton wants a public referendum on whether to build a $600 million convention center, saying "I'll trust the common sense of the voter over the [mayor's] administration." ... As a Memphis mayoral forum last night attests, politics in the Bluff City remain crazy as hell.
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As if there's aren't enough of them already, here are yet more appalling parents. ... Speaking of which, Maria Gurrolla and her husband aren't among that atrocious class. The Department of Children's Services returned their newborn and three other children to the parents yesterday, and the TBI is looking into whether the state agency illegally released to the media sensitive investigative information -- namely the now dismissed claim that the couple may have been trying to sell
their baby. ...

Check out the October issue of Nashville Retrospect, the newspaper that, to our great delight, prints decades-old news. ...

Nashville will get another upscale restaurant in Yolo when it opens this fall in the building that formerly housed Fire of Brazil and Green Hills Grille.

Update: Nashville Post with news that Tony the G pulled a rehearing for the May Town proposal.

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Nashville Retrospect is soon to be the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

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Posted by Ashley Spurgeon on October 7, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Crafton is a joke. Nashville has been debating a new convention center for years. All of the candidates for mayor supported it last election. It was an issue in all of the council races.
Sounds like Crafton and his Gaylord buddies need to get a spine. Everyone knows they're against this. Well, vote against it then. What are you afraid of?

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Posted by Noodles Sarducci on October 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM

How come the expanded SouthComm with more local coverage totally missed Tony Giarratana withdrawing his development team's request yesterday to the Planning Commission to rehear the May Town Center proposal on Thursday? No one in the mainstream media made the catch.

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Posted by S-townMike on October 7, 2009 at 9:38 AM

It didn't miss it. I was in touch with reporters about it last night, and there is something on Nashville Post and a link to CP coming any minute.

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Posted by Liz on October 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM

It's always a good day when Liz is paying attention to details.

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Posted by Curious on October 7, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Okay, Liz, but while your reporter was covering this yesterday did he bother to ask whether the May family was going to live up to its promise to make the land donation to TSU regardless of whether MTC is approved? Maybe that's tomorrow's NashPo story?

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Posted by S-townMike on October 7, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Mike, we're just as interested in that as you are and are still reporting. I wish you a good day and a trash-free yard.

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Posted by Liz on October 7, 2009 at 11:36 AM

And may you find your recycling bin constantly empty, Liz. Only trying to help you live up to your CEO's promise to provide _more and more and more_ local news through consolidation so you won't have to waste all of your latest gig at the Scene constantly discrediting lowly pink-slippered bloggers.

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Posted by S-townMike on October 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Are you saying you wear pink slippers?

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Posted by Hargrove on October 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM

I guess I'll ask the most logical question of the warrior-grammarians of journalism: did I write "us lowly pink-slippered bloggers"? If not, then perhaps that's not what I meant.
Isn't there a project for disclosing as much personal information for joke material as possible from police blotters that needs your attention?

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Posted by S-townMike on October 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM

"...disclosing as much personal information for joke material as possible from police blotters..."
This doesn't even make sense.

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Posted by P.J. on October 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM

Scene: what's the status of the donation to TSU?

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Posted by The OG DG on October 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM

What makes no sense, P.J., is that I keep visiting Pith for local news on whether the Mays will keep their promise to donate Bells Bend land to TSU, and there is no news.
Remember: we were promised _more_ local news.

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Posted by S-townMike on October 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
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