I’ve been meaning to investigate this further but for now I’ll just give me first impression.
The Garnett high rise is a low income housing apartment building on the corner of 12th and Edgehill. It’s located right across the street from a larger public housing block on the other corner. I’ve been there a number of times for neighborhood meetings. There are real needs: dealing with and reducing crime, finding programs and activities for the youth to be involved in, and bringing retail business to the area. …

If your seeing this site you’ve probably wandered over from the newly launched RelevantMagazine.com website after reading my article on the site.
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So if you didn’t notice the news yesterday or this morning there was some direct interaction between those raising concern about the TennCare cuts and Bredesen himself.
Somehow Bredesen was the keynote speaker at a convention about Health Care, as if he has the answer for everyone.
I joined others passing out flyers that gave some information about the other side of the story, things the folks at the convention didn’t hear from Bredesen’s lunch address.
If you haven’t seen the mainstream media’s look check it out:
The Tennessean has some photos.
Click on the …

We were walking through the mall Saturday when we were waiting for our car to get fixed and I saw a sign at the GAP.
Now I’m not a fan of the GAP, to many rumors of sweatshops, but I’ll stick it to the man when I can.
They are offering a free iTunes song just for trying on a pair of jeans. I literally grabbed a pair walked into a dressing room, tried to put my leg in (they were way to small) and then I walked …

I have a xanga. I started my blogging on a xanga because a lot of my friends where using it and I figured that was the place to be. The way I would post on there (and still do) is I tend to post just a few thoughts each couple days and I wait till enough people comment on the post before I post again.
Well, enough of that, this blog is for me. It can be for you too, and I apologize to those who …

Having just moved from the Chicago area, I still like to keep up on the news there. This article seemed to sober me to the fact that not all that much has changed in the years since the book, Savage Inequalities
(Jonathan Kozol’s look at the public education system), came out about ten years ago.
Sadly, the situation seems to be the same across our country and has been this way for a hundred plus years, we do NOT have equal education. For a country that so …

So I was calling a bunch of churches to tell them about this TennCare Town Hall Meeting, and I had two interesting responses.
First, nearly 90% of the churches I called nobody answered and I had to leave a message on a machine. I realize that many churches don’t have enough staff to have a full-time phone person, but still. I mean isn’t a churches main point to meet the needs of the people (It’s not a business, it’s supposed to be a community of people, more on this …

note: I submitted my blog to NashvilleIsTalking.com a sweet blog run by a news station (actually by Brittney) that just blogs about bloggers in Nashville (Like me!). Which means:
WELCOME MY NASHVILLE FRIENDS!
My own welcome to Nashville about a month ago came right in the midst of the State cutting off TennCare (the state’s health care program) for hundreds of thousands of people. Not a very nice thing.
I’m not a politician or anything, but I guess I basically think that a humane and justice society would take care of …