I’m still slowly scanning my old photo album to create a digital album. I’ve reached the point that I have to use an exacto to scrape the pictures from the evil glue. In the middle of tons of lousy pictures are treasures like this picture of my mother and another child playing on the military […]
In my complete and utter frustration at the pointlessness of trying to be heard by local politicians, please remember this story from last week. The school board member who represented KAEC when the students had zero books, when it was physically impossible to earn a diploma there and who sold most of the outside play […]
While I consider myself a Tennessean, it would be more honest to say that I am from Memphis. I choose to live in East TN because I love the rolling hills surrounded by mountains. I love the way everyone knows everyone else through family and church connections. I like the fact that people talk to […]
I have always known that politicians treat everyone else like children. Some of them think they are helping those children who are too naive to know what’s in their best interest and others just think they need to control the naughty little children. They don’t believe Americans are capable of understanding the underlying motives for […]
As predicted, siblings who are 6th grade or older can be grandfathered (except at the new HVHS) and the few neighborhoods who were very vocal (and financially strong) are going to be removed from the rezoning. This means that our tiny little corner of Morrell and Northshore will still be zoned to cross Morrell, cross […]
Are you keeping track of your representatives in government? Since Franklin Covey isn’t stepping up to the plate, you need to create your own planner page for tracking your elected officials. Knoxvillians can visit The League of Women Voters website for help creating a list of your representatives. Everyone else can find information on their […]
Step #1 – Visit websites like this and this to create a master list of your elected representatives in government and education. Step #2 – Make a three column document in the word processing software of your choice. Step #3 – Put names in the middle column. Step #4 – Officials who would have to […]
I have a page in my planner to keep track of my elected officials’ good and bad choices. Do other cities have so much political back door dealings that you have to keep a running tally?
I have received two responses from school board members this morning. One basically said he is voting for it and the other pretty much implied she that she’ll vote for it if they add a grandfather clause. Further proof that the “public input” on May 2nd doesn’t matter to the school board at all. They […]
Doug and I are uninsured. Since I still see blog posts and news articles trying to dispute that many Americans are uninsured, I have to point out that we have tried to get private insurance and couldn’t. So far, we’ve been lucky. For the most part, we just don’t go to the doctor unless there […]