That's Cooley with the blowtorth breath.Finally, a way to settle this whole Music City Center controversy. And now ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment pleasure, we present to you a clash of titans: Dave Cooley vs. Tom Ingram. That's right, a Friday Night Smackdown in the courthouse square! How about it?
With these two lobbying/PR heavyweights now on opposing sides, what better way to decide whether to build this new convention center? On the under card, how about Mike Jameson an
State Rep. Mike Turner​In this week's Scene, I write about a secret meeting that may play an important part in the NAACP-supported lawsuit against the city's new student assignment plan. The meeting gathered some of the city's most prominent black leaders with Chamber of Commerce president Ralph Schulz and state House Democratic caucus chair Mike Turner, a member of the task force that recommended the rezoning plan to the school board.
At the meeting, Turner described his reasons for supporti
It has been a big week for the plaintiffs in the trial of the federal lawsuit against Nashville's new student assignment plan. Let's review:
Expert witnesses testified the plan isolates hundreds more children by race and socioeconomic status and contradicts decades of social science on how to teach poor urban kids. That research shows students learn less in schools where poverty is concentrated. That's because teachers are overwhelmed by all the problems these children face--poor health,
Karen JohnsonIn 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
