You might be a Knox Countian if...

[binR Bishop]

Did the contract call for testing of the structure with modern equipment (ultra sound) instead of hitting the pillars with a hammer and gauging the return sound? Nope.

I had the same reaction, but have been told that the hammer IS the best technology available for this particular purpose. Hard to believe in 2013; if true, looks like a big opportunity for some inventor to get rich.

Also, it may have been TDOT who did the testing rather than the contractor. Not sure.

[Michael]

Haslam named to National Association of Truck Stop Operators Hall of Fame

...hall of fame?

I dug down into the links. It's a "Hall of Fame award."
There goes the vacation plans.
~m.

[Hayduke]

I dug down into the links. It's a "Hall of Fame award."
There goes the vacation plans.
~m.

But can you see it from the Interstate?

[SnM]

Mass transit is an affront to our fiercely independent, ever-questing, always-expanding, frontier-challenging ways.

Funding cuts to halt Farragut Express Route

KAT may close routes, add more buses on traffic arteries

[SnM]

Nobody's happy with the outcome, apparently

Liquor advocates to join Pigeon Forge lawsuit

[SnM]

Snark Bites: Government involvement in community disaster planning called 'essential'

How important are Tennessee's state and local governments to communities' disaster planning? "Absolutely essential" says Tennessee's State Cataclysm Coordinator Tim Pest.

"If you want the best results from your community disasters, involve government," he advised. "No other agency has more resources for planning and executing fiascos."

Pest said Tennessee in 2013 would discontinue crisis responses that avert or lessen the impact of hazardous events, such as providing flu vaccinations, salting roads before snows or maintaining dams.

"When government prevents mayhem, people mostly don't notice, so they think we do nothing," he said. "People only care when we're part of the problem, so we're now focusing on increasing government's participation in disasters."

He cited examples of previous government partnership in disasters, such as the federal budget talks teetering on the "fiscal cliff," TVA's Kingston fossil-plant coal-ash flood in December 2008, Knoxville's April 2012 mulch fire and Stacey Campfield, as "the sorts of disasters people enjoy carping about." ...


Yeah, it's weak.

[SnM]

HotH

• DesJarlais Has Talked with Health Department Investigators
• Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of TN Law Targeting Online Sex Ads
• Convicted Judge Seeks Reinstatement of State Pension
• Remains of TN Soldier, Killed in Korea 62 Years Ago, Returning for Burial
• Cooper Backs Colin Powell for Speaker of the U.S. House
• Fiscal Cliff Deal Included TN Sales Tax Deductability
• Lawsuit Says Bradley Deputy Fired for Supporting Rep. Watson
• State GOP Added as Defendant in Lawsuit Against Fleischmann
• Finding an Execution Drug for TN 'a Top Priority'
• House Group Eyes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' for Guns
• Comptroller: Now You Can Report Waste, Fraud & Abuse Online

[SnM]

The GOP Supermajority prepares to flex its member muscles

[SnM]

If guns are not the problem in mass murders, as the NRA and all the gun enthusiasts say, why is their answer to mass murders always more guns?

Move to arm teachers picks up steam in Tennessee
Tennessee bill would allow armed teachers

[earlnemo]

HotH

• Finding an Execution Drug for TN 'a Top Priority'

Guns?