Subject: David Fox

• Give and Ye Shall Receive

  July 14, 2008

• School Board Breaks Sunshine Law

  The school board, in its own dysfunctional way, is defiantly moving ahead with hiring a new superintendent against the mayor's wishes. And just in case anyone might want to hold board members individually accountable for their choice, they were hoping to cast secret ballots. But Pith in the Wind, your ever-diligent government watchdog, has called the board on it and forced public votes in the future on hiring the superintendent. You can thank us later. Here's what happened: The board interviewe

  December 9, 2008

• School Board Member Karen Johnson Says She's Under Pressure to Vote Based on Race

  OK, this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say we ought to disband the school board. It started with blogger Kay Brooks criticizing board member Karen Johnson for saying she wondered if a white guy could run a diverse school district like Nashville's. Johnson was talking about Jesse Register, our soon-to-be new superintendent.Then Johnson, who actually wound up voting for Register, defended herself in a comment:"What most people don't understand is the constant fire I am under by a small

  December 23, 2008

• Pedro's Smoking Gun

  Garcia's memos may supply evidence to undo school resegregation

  July 17, 2008

• Taunts, rumors surround MBA-Ensworth basketball controversy; also news

  January 29, 2009

• School Board Won't Back Down on Rezoning, Chairman Says

  At least one key public official isn't fazed by the NAACP's civil rights complaint against the school board. School board chair David Fox says he remains adamantly in favor of the student rezoning plan. There's been "no conversation at the board level to do anything any differently," he says. Fox also insists the board will keep its promise to spend an additional $6 million on Pearl-Cohn's cluster of schools next year, despite the district's budget troubles. Fox tells Pith: "I don't think ther

  January 27, 2009

• School Board Snaps Out of State of Denial, Confesses Shortcomings to Mayor

  Mayor Karl Dean met yesterday with that merry troupe of slapstick comedians officially known as the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Education. In a surprise, the board admitted it has really sucked at its job. The surprising part is that it took the board so long to figure that out. Our schools are dropout factories, and they have failed for five straight years to meet student achievement standards. The state has taken over many of the administration's functions, and the mayor is threatening to

  January 28, 2009

• Nashville's school board defies mayor in hapless search for new superintendent

  December 11, 2008

• Separate. Equal?

  August 28, 2008

• Head of the Class

  Nashville’s earnest new mayor is willing to try something different to fix schools

  January 31, 2008

• Words of the Week

  January 24, 2008

• Best Foes Forever

  After five-and-a-half years in Nashville, Pedro Garcia is the second most senior urban schools superintendent in the nation—and as much of a lightning rod as ever

  March 22, 2007

• Media, Issues & Politics

  October 12, 2006

• Words of the Week

  August 10, 2006

• School Board Candidate Podcasts

  August 3, 2006

• School Board Candidate Podcasts

  July 27, 2006

• School Board Candidate Podcasts

  July 20, 2006

• School Board Candidate Podcasts

  July 13, 2006

• Listen and Learn

  July 6, 2006

• School Business

  With school board elections on the horizon, new alliances and old debates take center stage

  February 9, 2006

• Post Editing

  NashvillePost.com and Business Tennessee co-founder to leave the company

  August 25, 2005

• Pushing the Preservation Envelope

  A tale of two proposed conservation zoning overlays

  June 16, 2005

• The Karate Kidder

  A local martial arts talent has won over the press and some of the top brass in the U.S. military, but he's prone to tall tales and outright fabrications

  April 21, 2005

• Taking Care of Business

  The new Business Tennessee looks promising

  January 22, 2004

• Decision Time

  The chatter is that Giallombardo is close to hiring a new Tennessean editor

  December 2, 2004

• One Buck-Naked Emperor

  John Wilder is past his prime like the Kingston Trio is past theirs

  April 15, 2004

• Prosaic Justice

  Is the City Paper seducing The Tennessean’s readers?

  November 13, 2003

• Columnist or Catholic?

  Tennessean columnist Tim Chavez walks tightrope

  June 20, 2002

• A Different Soap Opera

  May 2, 2002

• Business Mag Gets Makeover

  Business Nashville, and in with the city's newest editorial player

  April 4, 2002

• Two Nashvillians Are at the Center of a National Media Controversy

  But author David Vise and publisher Morgan Entrekin have responded very differently to charges that Vise tried to manipulate the New York Times best-seller list

  March 14, 2002

• About Face

  The Tennessean’s new conservative forum misses the mark

  January 10, 2002

• Half-Baked

  NashvillePost.com debunks Gore restaurant story

  December 6, 2001

• The Vision Thing

  A newsroom debates Sutherland vs. Green

  May 10, 2001

• Grading the Daily Part 2: The Company Man

  Tennessean editor Frank Sutherland adapts to a new era of corporate journalism

  May 3, 2001

• Getting Snippy

  Local media largely disappoints in the Y2K

  December 21, 2000

• Start Me Up

  Nashville's new daily prepares to roll off the presses

  October 19, 2000

• Fast Pitch

  Rocker rocked by former 'Tennessean' scribe

  January 13, 2000

• Start Me Up

  Former 'Tennessean' journalists launch new dotcom

  December 9, 1999

• Slashing Pumpkins

  August 6, 1998

• Stop the Presses

  February 19, 1998

• Can "The New York Times" Trust This Guy?

  September 11, 1997

• Desperately Seeking the News

  December 7, 1995

• Dear Metro Nashville Public Schools: Hire David Fuqua

  (Photo H/T: Some dude named Kevin on Facebook)When people talk about finite resources, they're usually referring to some sort of precious mineral or fossil fuel like gold, silver or oil. They usually aren't talking about good teachers. But if you've spent any time working at a school, or are related to a teacher, or have a school-aged child, or have, I don't know, ever drawn a breath (have we netted everyone yet?), you know this to be a fact: There are only so many great teachers out there. By

  June 12, 2009

• Convention Center Question? Ask the PR Flacks

  ​Recently, a Nashville resident we're going to call Mr. Curious e-mailed his Council representative the following question: Mr. BLANK, I live at BLANK. I think I am in your district. My question is how do I find out more information on the convention center? I am interested in the projections Nashville CVB is using to determine future demand. It seems to me technology and a desire to be energy efficient will change the face of the convention business. What is your current thinking?

  July 29, 2009

• Manufactured Support: How McNeely Pigott & Fox Delivered a Convention Center Consensus

  OK. So a couple days after News Channel 5 broke the story of McNeely Pigott & Fox spending the city's money like frat boys with a blank check, where do we stand now? We now know that MDHA hired MP&F to help sell the convention center with a contract that was not to exceed $75,000 and quickly ballooned to half a million. We now know that tens of thousands of dollars were spent monitoring blogs, creating Twitter icons and uploading videos to Facebook. We now know that MP&F billed $2,500 to help G

  August 6, 2009

• McNeely Pigott & Fox Throws in the Towel

  Citing a "flurry of allegations" and "misleading claims," McNeely Pigott & Fox voluntarily stepped down as public relations firm for the Music City Center project according to a letter sent minutes ago to MDHA executive director Phil Ryan. The letter, penned by MP&F partner David Fox, claims that the proposed billion dollar downtown convention center is "too important for Nashville's future for these communications contract issues -- no matter how misleading -- to take center stage." Here's a q

  August 17, 2009

• Student Rezoning Case Goes to Trial Today

  ​Eleven years after winning release from desegregation decrees, Nashville's school officials are being dragged back into federal court beginning today to face accusations they're discriminating against black children. The issue is whether race was a consideration in the student assignment plan that went into effect this school year, and much of the city's white officialdom is on trial. Did school board chairman David Fox openly advocate segregation in community meetings? Did he say, as the pl

  November 3, 2009

• Chamber of Commerce Cash and the Student Rezoning Plan

  Karen Johnson​In the student rezoning case in federal court, Metro's lawyers pop out of their seats with objections at the mere mention of the possibility the Chamber of Commerce might have tried to influence the school board. It's as if they actually think the judge will believe that the Chamber didn't push for the new student assignment plan. Please. The Chamber gave great wads of campaign cash to supporters of the rezoning plan. It even endorsed and funded an obscure candidate named Co

  November 10, 2009