memphis

The Primary Wife and I shared a good laugh this morning.  See, its our 15th anniversary, and again, neither of us remembered in time to prepare anything.  Every year, it seems, one or the other remembers the day of, or the day after, and I can’t remember a time when that made either of us mad.

James Butler digs into pork and political payoffs in the Tennessee state budget in a piece at ClarksvilleOnline.com headlined The true cost of pork spending.

Corruption also rears its ugly head in Tennessee, at least last year. Rep.

The Memphis Daily News reports that Congressman Marsha Blackburn has addressed her troubles with primary challenger Tom Leatherwood in a note to supporters:

One, from Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Mike Padgett:

There were horse and train rides for the kids and basketball for anybody who wanted to play. And there was a pavilion where we politicians got a chance to speak.

Police can stop a vehicle for driving too slowly, the [Tennessee] state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that led to a drug bust.

Chattanooga police arrested three people for possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to sell or deliver after they were pulled over in 2005 for driving 20 miles an hour in a 35 mph zone.You'll have to go to the Memphis Daily News to read the rest, because

Shelbyville City Council got a scare earlier this week when one of its members suddenly collapsed and stopped breathing. Council members were waiting for a bus in front of the downtown Memphis...

alrighty…so, by the time you are reading this, we are hopefully on the road to nashville. we’ll be staying the night in memphis (in a fancy-schmancy hotel because afterall, it is our 5th anniversary) so, yeah. there you have it.

Senate candidate Mike Padgett stands with unions in a right to work state: