The KNS has an update on the LED billboard "impasse" today.

The same issue is playing out in Nashville. Mike Byrd at the Enclave blog has been following it closely.

This is starting to sound like the AT&T cable bill. Wonder why the billboard industry hasn't gone to the Tennessee legislature to ask for statewide regulations allowing LED billboards?

UPDATE: Frost calls on UT to comply with billboard law

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Nashville's black community leaders are teaming up with city officials, Midstate leaders and cultural organizations to plan what they hope will be the biggest Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in the country — and to beat Atlanta.

Last January's parade received national news coverage from CBS in New York City, said Bishop George Price, the event's lead organizer.

"We are the second-largest behind Atlanta," he said the network told him. "It is my vision this year to surpass Atlanta."

I'm not sure what I think about this competition-with-Atlanta meme that's taken hold lately. I'm all for Nashville trying to up participation in MLK Day, which is truly incredible (I've marched in the parade for the past few years), but I'm not sure we need to be trying to one-up the man's birthplace.

Woof. 20% of the registered voters in Davidson came out, as opposed to over 40% in Shelby County. I don't think Shelby performed simply because Ford was on the ballot, either - he had no opponent, since Kurita dropped out.

Guess it might have been a good idea if the local Davidson Party had, say, recruited poll workers, or volunteers to give rides to the polls, or did any phone banking or other volunteer work for candidates. Instead, the political consultants running things over there worked for clients they got paid to support (in a primary against other Democrats), and Jim Bryson's numbers very nearly topped Bredesen's. In the county where he was Mayor, and from which his political strength allegedly originates.

Gonna be interesting how this is going to play out.