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From the Presser from the AARP: Tennessee will be the focus of a lot of attention Thursday, when voters go to the polls to choose candidates for crucial elections that will affect our future. But it’s also the final day that Tennesseans affected by the May floods can apply for assistance from the Federal...
As people around the state are helping others, it’s always good to remember everyone who lost during the floods earlier this month. Tent City residents are running out of time. The shelters are closing and homeless advocates who want to build a new encampment aren’t having any luck finding a new site. Many Tent...
We have heard a lot of wonderful stories of community, of strong will and sadness in the aftermath of the Tennessee Flood. Grey Street Girl is chronicling her journey in Nashville at the blog Adventures in Disaster Recovery. In her first post from earlier this month, she described that fateful day when she saw...
All I really wanted to put in the title is that our legislators were supposed to get us a state budget and all we got was a stupid bill honoring Arizona but I guess that’s too long for a title, much less a T-shirt. As Rep. G.A. Hardaway said last night, “Now we’re fixing...
One of issues that have come out of west Tennessee since the flooding is that the issue did not get as much media attention as, let’s say, Nashville. Of course Nashville didn’t get very much attention either until they started raising hell, which was fantastic. Nashville has a strong online voice and used it...
Dude! Where have you been? This is good stuff that helps real people devastated by this month’s flooding. Additional government incentives for flood victims could become part of the state’s budget for the year beginning July 1 under a proposal put forth by House Minority Leader Gary Odom, D-Nashville. Basically, it is regarding rebuilding...
Southern Beale dissects a Washington Post editorial by Howard Kurtz regarding the lack of media attention on the Nashville flooding situation. The good news is that the story did get out nationally (the fact that the Washington Post did this column is evidence of that). Not on the traditional national news outlets but on...
Over the weekend, the rains came again. On Saturday night, my sister was in Jackson. When the alarms went off, she was at the local mall with her kids and she said there was a bit of panic. Not the kind of panic one would have from a zombie apocalypse, but a bit of...
There headed to Nashville from South Florida so it may be a day or so. If you follow their Twitter account, there was also some information on Dyersburg. The truck, they only have one, is also trying to partner with laundromats in other affected areas in West Tennessee. They are telling the story on...
Dam Day Afternoon
There is a lot of controversy this week about the Army Corp of Engineers. Now that waters have receded and we all are eyeballing the sky with newfound respect and a bit of trepidation, the one thing leaders are doing is looking at mistakes that were made. The issue came up earlier this week...
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