Today's City Paper would make George Orwell proud. First, the school board blatantly violates the state's sunshine law by casting secret ballots during its search for a new superintendent. Then Pith points it out and the board is forced to redo the vote. And that chain of events produces this City Paper headline: "School board works to add transparency to director search."
Unless I missed it, the story neglects to mention the sunshine law violation but points only to "a flaw in the search pro
Unrelated: This movie looked terrible.Eight months ago, Jeff Woods was telling Nashville to load up the 12-gauge and put one between the school board's eyes. At the time, they had just voted to install former Chattanooga superintendent Jessie Register as Nashville's newest head educator. The end result of a long, and some might say fruitless, search to replace the disgraced Pedro Garcia.
Now we're halfway through the summer and, by all indications, mere weeks away from learning that the city ha
Megan Barry and nine other Metro Council members sign onto legislation to ban discrimination against gay city workers. ... The governor focuses on higher education reform in his last year in office: It's "the last major thing on my plate." ... Three Democratic candidates for governor speak in Chattanooga. Kim McMillan: "The worst thing that could happen to Tennessee would be to let the Republicans take over." ... Chattanooga city council says no to guns in parks. Police Chief Freeman Cooper: "W
