My friend Peggy Evans was all for locating a heavy industrial business near the Rockwood athletic fields and residential neighborhoods because it would mean jobs. Apparently she is against a proposed apartment complex next to Wal-Mart in spite of the fact that the new construction would also mean jobs.
As chance would have it, I personally know two CEO's of railroads. Not one...TWO! Amazing, I know, but it also recently presented me with the opportunity to ask my friends what they thought about LocoDocs? The exact words one of them said as soon as I asked: "Ten foot pole!" That is his very polite way of saying, "No way in Hell." Both of my friends rattled off a litany of obvious indicators that LocoDocs was bad news, some of them the exact same reasons Mayor Jim Watts stated as his reasons for opposing any city involvement, "inadequate funding, no coherent business plan and no successful business history" being the most obvious.
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Eco warriors and politics
- Judge allows UFC cage matches to go ahead on White House lawn (TN Lookout)
- Stockard on the Stump: Tennessee keeping intensive probation program alive – barely (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee waste task force eyes changes to law allowing local rejection of landfills (TN Lookout)
- Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds (TN Lookout)
- Trump says ‘great settlement’ of Iran war in the works, signing ceremony soon (TN Lookout)
- ‘The Dumocrats are at it again’: Trump attack on California election offers midterm preview (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee health department warns parents their children will be reported to immigration officials (TN Lookout)
- USDA Secretary Rollins blames Biden border policies for screwworm threat (TN Lookout)
Science and stuff
- A popular sunscreen ingredient can finally be sold in the United States (Science News Daily)
- A new method could spot fentanyl variants no one has cataloged yet (Science News Daily)
- Crossword: Power play (Science News Daily)
- Here’s what would happen if you tried to break a photon in half (Science News Daily)
- No, mastic gum won’t reshape your jaw (Science News Daily)
- Songs prep the brains of finches yet to hatch for a hot world (Science News Daily)
- Measles has no treatments. Changing that may not be easy (Science News Daily)
- Clocks made from an atomic nucleus just ticked on for the first time (Science News Daily)
- Neuroscientists left the lab to study memory loss. The results were surprising (Science News Daily)
- A new guideline links care for heart, kidney and metabolic diseases (Science News Daily)
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- The Constitution Won, Trump Lost in Colorado...Now What? (1 reply)
- Our Very Own George Santos, TN GOP Congressman Ogles is Pretty Much Insane (1 reply)
- Destroying Jim Jordan, All Without Mentioning Jordan's Support For Sexual Abusing Athletes (1 reply)
- Want to See Who Owns Your State Senators and Reps? (1 reply)
- 9-11 Strangest Uninvestigated Fact (2 replies)
- It's Gettin' Real, Now...Gloria Johnson Made Wonkette! (1 reply)
- Does Rep Fritts Want School Shooters to Have Access to AR 15s? (2 replies)
- How many Trees Died Trying Save Us From Global Warming? (1 reply)
- Feel Good Friday,,,From our "If Only" Dept. (1 reply)
- Tennessee Education Worsens Under Bill Lee and GOP (1 reply)
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