Sep

We’re having an election here today, for mayor and city council at-large positions. Craig & I are both disappointed that a lot of our friends aren’t very well-informed about the election, and many aren’t even going to vote. In terms of people’s day-to-day lives, I think local elections have even more of an impact than national ones do. So if you live in Nashville and you’re reading this – GO VOTE, if you haven’t aready.

Seriously, these are the people who are going to decide how good your kids’ schools are, how much property tax we pay, whether we get a minor league baseball stadium downtown or do something actually USEFUL with that (very valuable) riverfront property, whether the new convention center gets built, and all kinds of other things that will have a HUGE impact on life and living in Nashville. Nashville really is at a crossroads of becoming a MAJOR city, and this next mayor is going to have a huge influence on whether Nashville becomes the next Atlanta, or whether it (like Memphis before it) stops developing and starts fading, or whether we are able to forge our own path in between.

Our choice for mayor … Howard Dean. We’ll see if we get our way: