Thursday, November 5, 2009
Barry / Media Morning Roundup: Cheating is Hell
Posted by Bruce Barry on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:00 AM
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On day two of the Nashville public schools desegregation hearing in federal court an expert witness described the "segregative effect" of the school system's assignment plan as deliberate and undeniable. ...
State lawmakers are pondering the old switcheroo on Gov. Bredesen's ethanol-from-switchgrass biofuels program at UT after learning that the university pulled its own switcheroo, from switchgrass to corncobs. ...
Tennessee's largest National Guard combat unit will redeploy to Iraq in February. ...
Bart Gordon plays footsie with his upcoming vote on health care reform in the House of Representatives.
What do you do when you're a city struggling to keep revenue collections up during an economic downturn? It's the parking meters, stupid. ... A pissing match between MDHA and the largest owner of land in the footprint of the proposed convention center is headed to court. ... It's all over but the demolition at the Fairgrounds Speedway. ... In local cool quotient news, the Belcourt Theater will be a satellite host --one of just eight--for the Sundance Film Festival next January.
The truck window of Turin surfaces in Jonesborough. ... And in related news, an MTSU professor has students sign a pledge saying that cheating means one has "violated God's Ten Commandments, will be sorry for the rest of my life and go to hell." Now that's an honor system with teeth!
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