The Taxpayer Bill of Rights Bill sponsored by State Senator Jim Bryson has been delayed again until next week. It was originally scheduled to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Tuesday.
It is apparently being delayed again so that a rule change can take effect for there to be a roll call vote in the [...]

According to The City Paper, Fan Fair (I’m sorry…it’s now known as the CMA Music Festival) is going to be getting a two-hour primetime slot on CBS this summer.
Benson said the network television special is the fair’s biggest shot at publicity in its 33-year history, as millions of eyes will be focused on Nashville.
Well, let’s [...]

Speaking of the EU’s drafted constitution, here is a good article written last year by Marian Tupy and Patrick Basham over at the CATO Institute. They say that the EU’s constitution “is a product of 20th century welfare-state socialism.”
Maybe I shouldn’t worry so much if the following holds true:
The formal adoption of the EU [...]

According to recent surveys many think that the U.S. seeks world domination.
While this isn’t huge news (meaning…we’ve heard this before), something in this article gave me pause to think:
“Europeans want to check our power,” said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. “There’s considerable support for making the [...]

Nothing new here and probably not even worth the mention, but it seems the French love John Kerry.
Well, of course.
This article can be summed up by one excerpt:
…maybe it’s the simple fact that he’s not President Bush.
Or…maybe it’s because he looks French.

It seems that former Don Sundquist won’t be going to the GOP National Convention this year as a delegate. Sundquist said, “I decided it’s not worth arguing over or campaigning for.” He’s got a point there. Read the story by Georgiana Vines over at KnoxNews.com (registration required).

NashvilleFiles.com/blog is now officially launched. See the welcome message from yesterday.
I’ll be updating the columns as well as populating the blogroll over the next few days.
Suggestions, comments?

More ramifications from the terrorist attack in Madrid.
From a story in the Financial Times today:
Hopes are rising in European capitals that the change of government in Madrid could break the deadlock over a new constitution for the European Union.José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister-elect, said yesterday he hoped for an “accelerated” adoption of the [...]

Nashville’s schools got another embarassing mention last week over the honor roll flap. This time by Walter Williams (who happens to be one of my favorite columnists).
What passes for educational enlightenment these days boggles the mind. Matt Gouras, of The Associated Press, writing in the Jan. 5 Seattle Times tells a story about Tennessee [...]

Metro Councilman at Large and Man of Leisure Adam Dread has been recruited as a scout for a political reality show. He hopes to bring the cameras to Nashville.
Nashville may not have a presidential candidate on the national ballot in November, but some of our citizens could be featured this summer on American Candidate, [...]

Yesterday, we had an Amber Alert in Middle Tennessee. The children that were missing were found later in the day, and when I heard that they were with an 18 year old friend, I somehow knew that this was probably not a kidnapping.
From today’s Tennessean:
Sgt. David Gray said he believed the incident stemmed from the [...]

Welcome to NashvilleFiles.com/blog. This site is replacing my Opinions/Commentary section on my main site, NashvilleFiles.com. I thought it would be interesting to delve off into the world of blogging, so here I am.
In this forum, I will discuss things of personal interest, things of opinion, and other things that wouldn’t normally fit on [...]

More will be coming to this section soon…
Welcome to NashvilleFiles.com/blog. This site is replacing my Opinions/Commentary section on my main site, NashvilleFiles.com. I thought it would be interesting to delve off into the world of blogging, so here I am.
In this forum, I will discuss things of personal interest, things of opinion, and [...]

WebMD Corp. has entered into a $65 million agreement to acquire privately held Dakota Imaging Inc. of Columbia, Md. WebMD Envoy, which is based in Nashville, should benefit significantly from the acquisition.
Envoy processes medical claims and billing between healthcare providers and payers. Dakota provides software automation for mailroom, document processing, scanning, data capture, advance data [...]

Ok, I’m not intentionally jumping on a bash Kerry wagon here, but this article came my way today.
Advice from Cooter: a Southern Strategy for Kerry
And we gotta get you a good Southern nickname. Forget “Bubba.” We’ve got a Bubba surplus. “Slick” would work, but it has been used recently to mixed reviews. Animal names are [...]