Basically, the amendment stipulates that if a vacancy in the offices of mayor or district councilfolk occurs more than one year before a general election, we have a special election. Under current law, we’d have to have a special election if such a vacancy occurred within 9 months of a general election. In my opinion, this could cut down on the costs of a potentially unnecessary special election.

Look up. Do you see those bright, shining, hopeful faces? They are your 2007 mayoral candidates and we’ve interviewed every one. Well, almost every one. We’re still waiting on “What About Bob?” Clement. Apparently he had a “young professionals” gathering to go to every Monday morning since April. Click on their faces to hear […]

If you’ve read our post about impeachment, then you’ll understand why Russ Feingold is a weenie for once again suggesting censure instead of impeachment.
C’mon, Senator Feingold, do your job instead of trying to save it.
UPDATE: In addition to watching Bill Moyers’s discussion of impeachment, Senator Feingold should read today’s NY Times editorial by Adam Cohen […]

As someone who now has a very close tie to Meharry Medical College, I’m always encouraged when I see it appropriately recognized by community leaders. But until Nashville’s community of wealthy philanthropists commit to stepping up and playing important development roles for institutions like Fisk, Meharry, and TSU, I’m glad that we have a congressman that recognizes the need for these institutions to receive considerable financial resources.

Today in Nashville, the MBA president, George Bush, not only blamed everyone else for his fiscal incontinence but showed his complete lack of understanding of our budding long term financial crisis by saying, “We project if we can continue to have fiscal sanity in Washington, D.C. that we we’ll be in surplus by the year […]

At Liberadio(!), one of our favorite things is to talk to people about politics, especially when the person on the other end of the conversation is a politician or politician in the making. We’ve personally talked to a number of the candidates for this year’s Metro General Election, scheduled for
Thursday, Aug. 2nd (early voting going on now), and we’ve seen every major candidate at several open
forums. In addition, we’ve interviewed as many of the candidates as our schedule (or theirs) would allow.

We deliberated for quite some time about whether or not to endorse at all, ever. And especially in this election, where there are so many qualified candidates for the various offices, many of whom we like both personally and politically. It is a tough thing to play favorites in a public forum. But, like one of the mayoral candidates we decided not to endorse has repeated over and over again, we love this city and want to work toward continuing to improve it, and elections are the most direct way to nudge our public institutions forward.

Last night, I briefly attended the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender mayoral forum sponsored by Nashville’s GLBT Chamber of Commerce. Although I was there for only a very short time, I can declare it the best mayoral forum EVER. Seriously. Hors d’œuvres and a full bar? Genius.
The at-large candidates who were there were given a chance […]

Tomorrow, Thursday, July 19, is Vanderbilt University’s “Meet the Candidates” picnic. Sponsored by the Office of Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations, this event is becoming quite an election year tradition and gives voters a good dose of “old fashioned politicking.” This year, all mayoral, vice mayoral, council at-large, and council district candidates will have a […]

Senator Harry Reid grew some “thatchers” suddenly, which I am going to consider a special birthday present for Vince Guaraldi, The Hoff, and me.
Senate Republicans are threatening to filibuster a bill by Senators Levin and Reed that would require President Bush to begin troop withdrawal within 120 days, with most coming home by April 2008. […]

Summary: In this episode we interview Dr. Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt and author of “The Story of Cruel & Unusual,” a powerful book which takes a hard look at the American penal system and finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib and […]