A week ago today Jason Holleman and Emily Evans made a admirable effort to amend inequities in Metro Water billing out of the Mayor's rate increases to no avail.  24 council members voted with Mayor Dean to insist that big businesses, which generate more stormwater run-off, actually pay less for th...

MetrobrokersTV: Hi, this is Robin Wood. We are here with Metro Brokers TV today interviewing Doug Lindstrom. Hello Doug. Thank you for joining us. Doug Lindstrom: Hi there. Thank you. My pleasure. MetrobrokersTV: So I understand your company's name is Metro Brokers - Legacy Partners. Doug Lindstrom:...

Nashville's blogging council member, Emily Evans, attended the Riverfront community meeting in East Nashville last week and she was not pleased with idea of recreating the wheel. She builds a head of steam and gets on a roll herself: I was a bit surprised when I attended a community meeting on redev...

So Metro approved the contract for 4 of the 5 new light rail lines this week. Although there have been complaints about the 2012 plan delays, it looks like Metro used the time - and the intervening economic collapse - wisely to get the costs down to $73 million per mile (from potential estimates as ...

A great conference is coming up on March 14th. Get in on this while there are still openings. The Assumption Grotto choir will sing at the Mass. Click the pic to get to the Holy Trinity Apostolate website for details. It will be held at Sts Cyril & Methodius in Sterling Heights, Michigan from 8a...

* James Dobson is resigning as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Focus on the Family.  In his place will go Air Force Lt. Col. Patrick Caruana (Ret.), who was als once an executive with defense contractor Northrup Grumman.  Doesn’t anyone else find it a little bit weird that someone who ...

We click on news stories from Portland's Daily Journal of Commerce all the time nowadays, but we never buy a print edition. The other day we stumbled across a discarded hard copy of the paper, which we leafed through with......

Metro has been Verizon’s bitch for as long as I have known.  I wonder if the following means that the DC WMATA is opening up the cell phone network to other networks — let me know if that is what it means. There’s been talk of this for a while, but WMATA announced a little more of a timeline ...

DC has adopted its first gay landmark! It is the second “official” gay landmark in America, right after the Stonewall Inn in New York and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. [DCist] (more…) Prince George County schools cut 800 jobs and more Maryland schools may cut “music and...

Enclave readers may or may not know that I have been writing a regular column I call "Local Knowledge" over at The Nashville Free Press since its inception a few weeks ago. My subject in today's edition is CM Charlie Tygard and his effort to impose light emitting diode billboards on residential neig...