Subject: Small Business

• Earth Hour at DrinkHaus

  March 26, 2009

• This Guy Probably Has a Better Record Than the Chamber

  July 10, 2008

• Why Is the Chamber Playing Possum with May Town?

  August 1, 2008

• Do You Like Beer? Space Capone, The Delta Saints Play Yazoo 5th Anniversary Party

  November 6, 2008

• Will Obama’s Win Mean Big Gains for Nashville’s Unions?

  It was one of the least talked about issues of the election. It also may be one of the most transformative. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce considered it so dangerous it spent $30 million at the end of the campaign to stop Barack Obama. But within the next year, it will likely be coming to a workplace near you. It’s called the card check system, and it may prove to be the rebirth of the American union movement, dramatically changing the way organizing drives are conducted. Under current rule

  November 21, 2008

• Lights Out! DrinkHaus Observes Earth Hour

  On March 28, if you a see a glowing yellow-and-white beacon just north of the pitch-black cityscape of downtown Nashville, that's probably DrinkHaus. Owner Kat Roos is observing Earth Hour by turning out the lights and holding a candlelit party in her lemon-colored coffee shop. DrinkHaus' (electric) lights will go out from 8 to 9 p.m. That's a half-hour before the rest of downtown goes dark, so people can still see to gather. Roos will bake up a batch of goodies to sample, and she's gathering

  March 20, 2009

• Not Who He Says He Is

  May 1, 2008

• Words of the Week

  January 24, 2008

• Tennessee GOP Establishment Embraces Tea Party Protesters

  Nashville's Tax Day Tea Party is only about an hour away, and Pith is all atwitter with anticipation. The Politico's Ben Smith writes today about the reluctance of the Republican establishment to join the wackos in the Tea Party revolution. What's up with that? In Tennessee, Republicans have no such fussy qualms about hanging out with angry nutjobs. Ron Ramsey, Zach Wamp and Marsha Blackburn, just to name three state GOP leaders, have embraced the Tea Party protesters in press releases. Wamp s

  April 15, 2009

• Words of the Week

  March 1, 2007

• The Bad Man of Nolensville Road

  Detailing the sleazy practices of an influential Hispanic business leader

  February 15, 2007

• The Deaning of Music City

  How a group of locals is spreading the word about the Vermont doctor running for president

  September 4, 2003

• Size Matters

  Just how big is the nation’s premier small-business lobby, really?

  July 27, 2006

• Felons in the Kitchen

  State lawmakers want to punish moms for hiring illegal immigrants

  March 30, 2006

• Word of the Week

  June 9, 2005

• Bored of Education?

  Metro schools want cash while pigs and pols remain noncommittal

  April 28, 2005

• Almond Joy

  Candy-obsessed author documents small-time confectioners' battle with "the Big Three"

  May 6, 2004

• Shameless Self Promotion

  June 5, 2003

• The Season

  Think Globally, Shop Locally

  December 5, 2002

• Say What?

  Bellevue chamber president denies bigoted comment

  August 29, 2002

• News Briefly

  He said, she said

  July 25, 2002

• A Face In The Crowd

  July 11, 2002

• The Dismal Side

  January 31, 2002

• Dialing for Dollars

  City officials ask start-up telephone companies to pay up

  November 8, 2001

• Trading Up

  The Sounds will go where they can get a new stadium, and Nashville’s holding the door

  September 27, 2001

• Paving Paradise

  Franklin’s progress is defined by disappearing pastureland and the growth of Cool Springs

  April 12, 2001

• Dot.com.uppance

  Nashville entrepreneurs rebound from the tech wreck

  February 22, 2001

• Tensions Run High

  Bizpigs spar with Purcell over downtown

  February 22, 2001

• So Few Taxes

  Is Purcell laying the groundwork for a new levy on homeowners?

  February 1, 2001

• Police Insecurity

  New secondary employment proposal will have detractors

  December 14, 2000

• Start Me Up

  Former 'Tennessean' journalists launch new dotcom

  December 9, 1999

• Train Ride

  Clement donor profits off landport expansion

  October 28, 1999

• Oh FUD!

  April 1, 1999

• Pulpit Politics

  February 18, 1999

• Questions of Fairness

  May 28, 1998

• Information glut

  April 16, 1998

• A Village Peopled

  October 2, 1997

• Stop the Madness

  June 13, 1996

• Media Readers' Poll

  March 28, 1996

• Open House at Art Space Nashville

  May 21, 2009

• Wasted Thread at Blend

  July 30, 2009

• Cooper: the Scrooge of the Health Care Debate

  ​Jim Cooper is the star of a favorable report in the Economist headlined "What now for Obamacare?" Here's how the article begins: "It's a lot easier to be Santa than Scrooge," harrumphs Jim Cooper. The congressman from Tennessee is complaining about the health-reform plan unveiled in July by the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives. He thinks it is a populist initiative that will end up fueling rather than curbing America's runaway health inflation. Such tough talk would

  July 30, 2009

• Liberadio(!)'s Freddie O'Connell Launches New Internet Marketing Venture

  ​No stranger to the pages of Pith, Liberadio(!) has been informing, entertaining and infuriating Nashville listening audiences for five years now. Each Monday morning from 7 to 9 a.m. on WRVU-91.1 FM, co-hosts Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell offer an alternative perspective to the glut of right-wing talk radio shows clogging up the airwaves. McConnell has left his job as an Internet strategist at SouthComm (publisher of The City Paper, Music Row magazine, nashvillepost.com and several

  August 11, 2009

• Buy Local: From East Nashville to 12South, Nashvillians are finding new reasons to spend close to home

  September 10, 2009

• Disputed accounts of a secret meeting may affect Metro's rezoning controversy

  September 10, 2009

• Some of Mike Turner's Best Friends Are Black

  ​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,

  November 6, 2009

• Jim Cooper: Mr. Compromise!

  ​In a surprise as the House opens debate on health care reform, Rep. Jim Cooper has announced he's deserting many of his Blue Dog buddies to vote yes. I will vote yes on H.R. 3962. My vote is not an endorsement of all the provisions of the bill because I find much of the bill to be deeply flawed. There is little chance that H.R. 3962 will become law due to the long legislative process. My reason for voting yes is to advance the cause of health care reform by forcing the Senate to act. Witho

  November 7, 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

• Vote or Die: Grimey's and Halcyon Both Nominated for $35K Small Business Grant

  Grimey's and Halcyon are my shit, y'all!​An organization known as Intuit is sponsoring a competition called Love a Local Business, in which they'll be doling out grants based on customer votes/comments. Check it out: The Love A Local Business competition lets fans, including customers, vendors, employees, and the community, determine who deserves some love - in the form of small business grants. Five nominated businesses will be randomly selected to receive small business grants worth $5

  January 15, 2010