Thursday, March 11, 2010
Morning Roundup Morning Roundup: Would You Like Some Cocaine With Your Big Gulp?
Posted by Jim Ridley on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:23 AM
The new (improved?) guns-in-bars bill is locked and loaded, as far as a House committee is concerned. ... TSU's got some explaining to do to keep its accreditation. ... Rep. Frank Niceley's bill to reapportion congressional districts every two years dies in a tie vote. Hat tip: Kleinheider. ... Police bust a Jefferson Street market for allegedly selling pot, cocaine and ecstasy. Whew, we were afraid they might be selling wine. ... Mayor Dean sentences Nashville to three consecutive years of acoustic balladry. ... Jolly good: British banking behemoth Barclay's could bow in Nashville. ...
Work halts on one section of Wolf Creek Dam, considered a risk for catastrophe that could cause flooding in parts of Nashville and Hendersonville. ... American Idol contestant Danny Gokey launches an after-school choral program for Nashville kids. ... Karl Rove's book sez George W. Bush considered Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander and Fred Thompson as veep material before choosing the greatest of four evils. ... Vandals send a garbled message to a Clarksville store with flaming peace signs, crosses and swastikas. ...
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Regarding the "guns-in-bars" revised bill... Isn't this approach rather backwards?
Why doesn't the law allow guns in places where alcohol is served if they DO post a sign explicitly allowing it... but default to disallowing it if no sign is posted?
That puts the control in the hands of business owners without requiring them to post a sign they may consider to be inhospitable to other clients. It'd also help if the look, placement, and text of the sign was standardized like the placement of the registration stickers or health scores are (a pretty big ommission in the bill, IMHO).
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