I believe the Brigadoon development was on the agenda tonight at the County Planning Commission meeting. Didn't seem like much was accomplished or discussed, but I would say that more issues are on the short horizon conerning the property, so stay tuned and ask around. I believe the owner is wanting to build more "lease properties".I think there will be a proposal at the next meeting.

Well I had to pick up an ailing great aunt in Florida today to be with an ailing grandfather...which meant 10.5 hours in a car. So I obliged with continuous non-stop Fox News on XM Radio to suit the almost Ninety Year old Sweetheart. What I realized... thank goodness the story of the day was OJ which we can all agree is a narcisitic moron, so I didn't need Fox to tell me that...but news has really become a gossip column. Not much real content...

I know the Jail topic was hot about a year and a half ago, thus almost 80% of the voters rejecting the County Commish's decision. It also got hot about ten months ago when we were to be decertified by the state and all of our County Commisioner's were put in a pressure cooker (whether real or artificial) to hurry up and make a decision...my point is, this isnt a dead issue.

Rumor has it that the County Executive's Office is wanting to set up a Roane County Educational Foundation...This seems like a good idea for going after pockets of money and grants...Anyone know more details about how this would work? I know they have done this in other county's.

I recently had a friend of mine tell me the story of not being able to get a straight answer from the School System about the situations regarding the Air Conditioning at Kingston Elementary School. He was extremely upset that he could'nt find out if his child was in a situation that was healthy and acceptable for a youngster to be subjected. I dont blame him. I read articles in the paper about how bad the School system was not to have enough air conditioners, or not to have a plan to fix this problem. I read letters to the editor about kids burning up and how we should let them out early...All of this sounded extremely incompetent until I began to analyze the true problem...

I am a blogger "newbie", but I wish to help set the tone for this site to be thoughtful, so I am going to "steal" my first post. I know we think most times Corporate America is at the heart of what is wrong with our country, but every once in a while their marketing departments come up with little gems to reflect upon. This comes from an Apple Computer ad in the 1990's:

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