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It was a great weekend. Two events, Father’s Day and my girlfriend Ellyn’s birthday brought family and friends together. There was a lot of cooking, cleaning and celebrating. My dad and his wife Joy single handedly made my deck look like new and figured out the right combination of chemicals to take the years...
Gail Kerr has seen Ron Ramsey’s budget and she’s not too happy. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is hanging his chance to be governor on two specific promises, one “to give the boot” to Washington and the other to slash state government. The first one seems ridiculous after Tennessee’s disastrous flood. The second might very...
Yesterday the Tennessean reported on layoff notices that had been mailed out to state employees. This morning, Gail Kerr picks up the ball and tells a sad reality. The public sector is doing what private employers have been doing for the last two years to rein in costs in a difficult economy. Outsourcing, layoffs,...
What an eventful 24 hours it’s been. Yesterday some good friends got married, which was followed by some frivolity at the expense of our livers, with the musical stylings of Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround carrying us forward into the wee hours of the afternoon. After which, we scattered, covered, smothered, and chunked our...
Yeah, I know the Ides of March aren’t for another 15 days. What of it? I can still sound a warning can’t I? Well, as I’m not a soothsayer, mostly because I’m not entirely sure what it would take to say a sooth, I guess I won’t be sounding a warning of impending death...
Today’s collective sigh goes to legislation introduced by a Columbia democrat who has introduced allowing fish tanks in barbershops. Gail Kerr is laughing her hiney off this morning in a column in The Tennessean. It seems that somewhere long ago, in a General Assembly far, far away, Tennessee lawmakers decided that a shave and...
The Whole Per Diem Flap
In this morning’s Tennessean, Gail Kerr is talking per diem reimbursement for legislators. Tennessee legislators get a flat rate of $185 to cover their expenses no matter what they spend, and no matter how far from Nashville they live. That’s on top of an annual salary of $19,009. –snip No one argues that state...
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