Posts Tagged ‘clarksville’
Compassion: It’s almost as exhausting as the alternative
- While the rest of us routinely suffer from “compassion fatigue,” Virginia Trimble Ritter finds a way to forgive a murderer. That’s a remarkable and inspiring example.
- Speaking of compassion, Clarksville mayor Johnny Piper could use a little more right now. Most Muslims aren’t violent, hateful people, and neither are most Christians.
- On the subject of fatigue, Vandy’s nonstop football schedule may be tiring, but it may also be beneficial. A team that has struggled mightily with consistency, despite its recent success, may fare better without bye weeks to stall its momentum.
- College hijinks aren’t just for drunks anymore. This story sounds strange enough until you consider that these students were actually sober the entire time. Now that’s weird.
Tags: barack obama, campus crusade for christ, clarksville, college football, compassion, forgiveness, intolerance, islam, jerome barrett, johnny piper, knoxville, marcia trimble, nashville, tennessee, vanderbilt, virginia trimble ritter
Other regions, not other counties, should be Nashville’s competition
Sooner or later, Davidson County and its neighbors need to answer a critical question: Are they competitors or collaborators?
If Nashville is going to continue to grow wisely and responsibly, we need to be thinking as a region, not individual counties. It seems to me that the outlying counties have plenty of incentives not to think regionally (and risk having to bear a proportionate share of the financial burden Nashville’s prosperity demands), and I hope that will change.
Like it or not, Nashville needs its surrounding counties, and the counties need Nashville. I’m glad to see sities such as Clarksville, Murfreesboro and Gallatin embracing that notion.
NOTE: My employer has worked to oppose development in Bells Bend in the past, though it isn’t engaged to do so at present. Though I’m personally opposed to such development, too, I cited the first linked article above because it’s an example of how Nashville’s individual counties spar with each other for business relocations. I’d rather see all of the counties work together to boost relocations to the region as a whole.
Tags: clarksville, commuter rail, cumberland region tomorrow, gallatin, LOST, may town center, murfreesboro, nashville, regionalism, tennessee
