Report: 1,120 Tennessee businesses closed permanently due to pandemic
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Friday, August 07, 2020
Digging Out: Where does Nashville's tax money go?
by Dennis Ferrier, FOX17 Nashville, Tuesday, August 4th 2020 - Local tax incentives: that sounds boring until you realize it is one of the biggest reasons Nashville is raising its property tax.
The formula goes like this: You come to Nashville to build something big, a hotel like the Westin or a high-rise condominium like the Viridian, and Nashville gives you big tax breaks.
“Essentially what they are doing is come to an already booming real estate market an area that doesn’t need any help to develop and we will cover a lot of these costs and use property taxes and sales taxes to help pay back the developers,” Ron Shultis, director of policy and research at the Beacon Center of Tennessee, said
....An 1,100 square foot apartment goes for more than $400,000 with a tax bill of about $4,000. Because of local tax breaks, only $115 of property tax goes to Davidson County. Everything else goes back to the developers. (link)
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Get Covid-19, Metro Health will tell police and other first responders. What happened to HIPA?
Metro health board approves sharing limited COVID-19 case info with first responders
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - The Metropolitan Board of Health approved a limited interim process that will allow the Metro Public Health Department to share with first responders the addresses and names of confirmed COVID-19 cases until a long-term solution can be configured, tested and implemented.
The Board of Health approved the measures during a board meeting on Thursday. (link)
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Thursday, August 06, 2020
The Most Educated City in Every State: Tennessee - Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin
Adults with a bachelor’s degree: 35.9% (state: 27.5%)Median household income: $65,919 (state: $52,375)
July unemployment: 2.7% (state: 3.5%)
Number of college and universities: 56
Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, is also the best-educated city in the state. It is the only metro area of the 10 in the state where more than one in every three adults has a bachelor’s degree or higher. In Knoxville, the second best-educated city in the state, only 28.7% of adults have a four-year degree. Adults with a bachelor’s degree are nearly half as likely to be unemployed as those with just a high school diploma, and in Nashville, the unemployment rate stands at just 2.7%, well below the 3.5% state rate.
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Best Public High School in Every State: Tennessee - Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet School
Number of students: 903
Student-teacher ratio: 21-to-1
Avg. SAT score: 1330
Avg. graduation rate: 99%
The Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet School in downtown Nashville ranks as the best public high school in the state. More than 70% of students in the state enroll in at least one Advanced Placement course, and the school has a near-perfect 99% graduation rate among high school seniors. All but 5% of students and teachers at the school surveyed by Niche describe the student body as competitive, and the vast majority of respondents made positive comments about the teaching staff, including that teachers genuinely cared about students and gave engaging lessons.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2020
The New York Times: Tennessee Republicans, Once Moderate and Genteel, Turn Toxic in the Trump Era.
In the Senate primary race to replace Lamar Alexander, two candidates are fighting to see who can better emulate the president. It isn’t pretty.
The New York Times - .....Mr. Hagerty ..., with an attack-filled tirade, claiming that Mr. Sethi, an orthopedic surgeon, had an “abysmal” record of supporting the Trump agenda and a soft spot for “socialized medicine.”
Amid a chorus of boos from Mr. Sethi’s supporters, Bill Lee, the governor of Tennessee, who has remained publicly neutral in the race, nudged Zach Wamp, a former congressman from the area. “Have you ever seen anything like this?” he asked.
“No,” Mr. Wamp, who has endorsed Mr. Sethi, recalled, responding, “I haven’t.”
...when Mr. Sethi, trying to position himself as the more authentic ally of the president, called Mr. Hagerty “Mitt Romney’s guy” and erroneously claimed Mr. Romney had endorsed him, Mr. Hagerty attacked his former friend,...
.....The contest has become a proxy war of sorts for Republicans looking to gain a foothold in an early, so-called S.E.C. primary state ahead of the 2024 presidential election, with Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas stumping for Mr. Hagerty and Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky hosting rallies for Mr. Sethi.
... Hagerty’s ceaseless promotion of Mr. Trump’s endorsement, have only served to highlight how unnatural a mouthpiece he can seem for Trumpism. “It just reads as kind of a campaign tactic — not a lot of heart and soul in it,” said Tom Ingram. ...
... Mr. Hagerty has relentlessly attacked Mr. Sethi for donating $50 in 2008 to ActBlue, a liberal fund-raising platform. One recent Hagerty ad features a wounded veteran who says the donation shows that voters cannot trust Mr. Sethi to defend the American flag.
...Meanwhile, Mr. Sethi has attempted to link Mr. Hagerty to the Black Lives Matter protests, launching a web ad that points to Mr. Hagerty’s recent position on the board of an investment firm that issued statements in support of the movement following George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minnesota. (Read more)
Rod's Comment: I am totally disgusted with this campaign. I am disgusted with both candidates. I would have been pleased if either one were to be elected. Now, I don't think either one of them deserve to be elected.
I don't think you can see daylight between their ideological positions and both of them are capable and have certain talents. There is something to recommend either of them. It is a shame that have each ran such vicious negative campaigns.
In my whole life, I don't think I have ever not voted when I had the opportunity. I have not yet voted in this election and not sure I am going to bother. If I vote, I don't know if I will vote for Byron Bush or George S. Flinn for Senate.
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East Nashville house party has caught the eye of the White House and has become an international story.
See: White House releases statement after large house party in East Nashville.
The story was picked up by CNN, MSN.com, Mircosoft News, Yahoo News and even the UK's Daily Mail.com.
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Alternative budget bill fails at Metro Council; second in two weeks
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A bill to reduce Nashville’s 34% property tax hike came before Metro leaders Tuesday- but was struck down as invalid in its first reading. Councilman Steve Glover proposed a bill that would reduce the property tax levy down to 22%. Glover believes this is feasible, saying sales tax projections for 2020/2021 are lower than they should be in the budget and should be revised. (link)
Stay tuned. As soon as the minutes are posted I will publish the list of how Council members voted.
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Tim Skow calling out those who demonize the other side in the Hagerty-Sethi primary contest.
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| Tim Skow |
QUICK QUESTION?
Recognize ALL the names on the following list of notable Conservatives?
- Vice President Mike Pence [R- IN]
- Senator Rand Paul [ R-KY]
- Senator Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]
- Senator Ted Cruz [ R-TX]
- Senator Tom Cotton [ R-AR]
- Senator Jim DeMint [R-SC] *
- Congressman Chuck Fleishman [R-TN]
- Congressman Ed Bryant [R-TN] *
- St. Sen. Majority Leader Johnson [R-TN]
- Congressman Jimmy Duncan [R-TN] *
- St. House Majority Leader Lamberth [R-TN]
- Congressman Zach Wamp [R-TN]*
- FOX News & radio show host Sean Hannity
- FOX News & radio show host Mark Levin
- ALL are very experienced and savvy when it comes to Conservative politics.
- ALL are trusted by their Conservative ‘’constituents.’’
- ALL have endorsed their candidate of choice in the Tennessee’s US Senate primary.
Half have endorsed Manny Sethi!!
It is NO surprise that dozens of elected office holders in Tennessee have also added their endorsement to their candidate of choice.
Clearly, the overall message is that BOTH candidates are highly accomplished, highly respected by their peers and trusted by the many supporters they have earned during the campaign. You would think such a race for the US Senate, campaigns would be BIG ideas and BIG concerns facing our State and the nation.
HOW SAD … that so many supporters (on both sides) have devolved into trite pithy Social Media spats, verbal nit-picking, whining about the trivial and pushing outright fabricated BS!!
Does a contribution from a couple of decades ago really matter when it comes to dealing with China or wrangling with healthcare issues that comprise 20% of the US Economy?
Unlike Judge Roy Moore in Alabama and other recent toxic Senate primary candidates, neither Mr. Hagerty nor Mr. Sethi would put Tennessee’s US Senate seat in jeopardy. So its time to ask, ‘’Is it too much to expect that supporters reflect the caliber of their candidate’’? Is it too much at ask that before any of us hit the SEND button, ‘’Would my candidate of choice have said, written or posted THAT”? Is it too much to ask, “If my phone rings and its my candidate of choice on the line, would he/she be thankful and proud just went on their behalf?"
IS IT TOO MUCH … to ask that if you see or hear comments that clearly do NOT reflect the caliber of the candidate you also support, that you call out those making the incendiary or bogus comments?
Three things are certain:
- Primary election night is coming soon!
- The morning after Election night is coming too!!
- Races against Democrats and Ultra-LIBs on the November ballot will be in serious jeopardy around Tennessee, in neighboring state and nationally.
In closing, are you voting for President Trump in November? IF so, do like he does.
- Tout your primary candidate of choice.
- Stay focused on the REAL prize.
- Let the people decide and plan to work well with who wins. Then campaign like Hell to beat the Democrats, Ultra-LIBs and ANTIFA apologists on the November ballot. IF … we are going to beat them in less than 100 days, THEN … it is going to take ALL of us. Please plan, talk, post and act like you will be campaigning side-by-side with those you are campaigning against in today’s hot primary!
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