Category: City Management

Plan Your Vote, Nov. 8 2022

FACT CHECK. Following the original publication of this article, here are a couple of changes / clarifications:1. Photo of candidate speaking at forum has been removed since it served only to trigger some readers. The photo did not comment on…

Give Us a Whole Cashew, Not Semantics

George Will once said, “Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.” “Lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.“ We’ve heard time and again…

Where Perception Intersects with Reality

I once worked with an association of state-wide elected officials that held annual conferences at different locations throughout the country. One year a hidden camera crew followed the state treasurer of Minnesota to one of these conferences and did an…

Viva Las Vegas! GO LaVERGNE!

LaVergne is sending a delegation to the 2017 retail conference hosted by the International Council of Shopping Centers, scheduled May 21-24 in Las Vegas. I won’t talk about taxpayer dollars sending people to Vegas because it’s just a fact that the…

Fresh Ideas: About Greenways

When I campaigned for alderman, other people who were also running kept yelling out that they would have “fresh ideas!” if they were elected. I asked, “What kind of fresh ideas do you have?”  The answer was they hoped to…

City Looking at Space Needs

As many readers already know, I am running for the office of Alderman in the City of La Vergne. A hot topic of conversation has been about building a City Hall Complex. Today I met with the City Administrator and I…

Road Work Finally Underway

The intersection at Murfreesboro Road and Nir Shreibman Road has long been a thorn in the side of drivers that live in the Lake Forest, Madison Square, Watersedge, Lakewoods, and other subdivisions as they leave for work in the morning…