Update: Officer Tartt Still Sick, Needs Our Help

Officer Tartt was doing a benchpress last January and felt a strange pull. When he went to the doctor, he learned he needed surgery and after the operation, his left leg doubled in size.  He had developed blood clots and is now taking medication to thin his blood in preparation of more surgery.  Though his blood hasn’t thinned [...]

Oh, For Crap’s Sake

I just now saw this from the DNJ:
The 12-year-old girl police say was shot in the head by an 11-year-old boy remains in critical condition at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.
Judge Donna Scott Davenport continued a hearing for the boy, who is charged with aggravated assault, that was set for today to allow more time for review.The [...]

Random News at the End of the Day

Apologies to everyone who reads here regularly for not posting more often. This weekend will be no better because I’ll be gone for a few days. I’m hoping our contributing authors will jump in this weekend if anything is on their minds or in the news.
I heard today at our meeting that a murder trial [...]

Guest Column: Calculating Property Taxes

Calculating Property Taxes
By Doug Shafer, County Commissioner, District 1
In talking with Kathy, I mentioned that on the LaVergne blog and on emails I’d received, there was some misunderstanding of how to calculate property taxes.
Tennessee uses an assessed value system for property taxes.  Different types of building uses are assigned percentages of appraised value depending on [...]

Turn LaVergne Into Community for the Arts

My column was published today in the Daily News Journal.  It took what felt like a couple of weeks for it to be printed, so I’d grown very nervous about its message.  But now that I’ve read it again, I stand by it (like the chef’s on Top Chef stand by their dishes!).
An excerpt,
A friend [...]

DNJ Guest Column Coming

I’ve written another guest column for the Daily News Journal about LaV… not sure when it’ll be published, but will link to it when it does.
I’ve given a lot of thought about Ivy’s suggestion that we should change how LaVergne is marketed.  Without revealing too much of the column, I think we could make this [...]

This Street Parking Prohibition We Have

I get that LaVergne doesn’t allow parking on the street so that emergency vehicles can get through to fight fires, help at crime scenes or accidents, to rescue kitties from trees.  They have to be able to access all areas of the city to keep us all safe.  Not only do I “get” it, but [...]

LaVergne Bible Park?

I don’t “get” why everyone in the Murfreesboro and Blackman area was so opposed to the Bible Park.  Noise?  Pshaw.  Jobs?  Heck yes!  Revenue for community.  Heck yes! 
I wish LaVergne could have the Bible Park.  I don’t know where it would go, but maybe we could knock down some of those eyesore warehouses along Sand Hill Road [...]

I Hereby Nominate Ivy for Mayor

After Ivy’s thought-provoking, problem-solving comment about education in America, she’d get my vote.
Vote for Ivy!

Welcome to the Week of May 18th

Sadly for us parents, this is the last week of school before summer vacation begins. Yes, I love having a week or two that I don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn, but the thought of 2 1/2 loooong months of kids at home fighting fills me with dread.  Here’s my vote [...]