Happy Hour: We’re Broke!

• We know the economy sucks and all, but what does that mean for Tennessee? Well, it means that we’re quickly approaching being $600M in the hole. Our revenue depends on people buying stuff, except everyone is broke. Including the State of Tennessee. [Commercial Appeal]
• Beware of the Vanderbilt boob-grabber! [WSMV]
• Tennessee is one of ten states that’s getting in on General Motors’ effort to push ethanol 85, which is a kind of biofuel made from plants. [Tennessean]
• President Bush’s terrifying canine, Miss Beazley, viciously attacked a former Middle Tennessean at the White House on Monday. But don’t worry, President Bush later told the victim, it won’t happen again because he had all of her teeth pulled out. [Tennessean]
• Teach for America, a program that trains recent college grads and puts them into troubled schools, is coming to Nashville in hopes of helping out with a Metro Schools bailout of sorts. [Tennessean]

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