Metro Council is considering banning us from keeping chickens in our yards unless our yards happen to be 5 acres. And donkeys, and horses, and geese, and peafowl (we had to look this one up, but it’s refering to peacocks), and pigs also. [Tennessean]
At least one engineering expert is calling shenanigans on the TVA report on why the Kingston ash spill happened, saying that “it ain’t rocket science,” and that it’s a simple case of a dike that burst. [Tennessean]
While all of the Steve McNair hoopla was going on, Sahel Kazemi was buried in Florida today with a ceremony of about 30 friends and family. [WKRN]
I-40 West will be shut down near downtown this weekend and rerouted through I-440 or I-24. [Tennessean]
Frodo
They can take my chickens from my cold, dead fingers.
jmgregory
Bad move, Metro Council, bad move. I can see it now: The Nashville Chicken Riots of Aught Nine. Is anybody organizing an opposition to this? If it passes, I think massive wide-spread civil disobedience is in order.
I'm with Frodo. Producing food for one's self is a natural right.
