Giving Metro A Little Tappy

By Kleinheider Posted on December 20, 2008 at 10:58 pm

Karl Dean’s Metro Nashville will cease the purchase of bottled water:

“Councilman Jameson made a good point,” the mayor said in a statement. “We’ve decided to stop purchasing bottled water and only serve tap water in the office. And Metro water is great, so it was a no brainer.”

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Shelby County Mayor Wants Fedgov to Help Metro Area Not Just Cities

By Kleinheider Posted on June 11, 2008 at 7:03 am

From the Commericial Appeal:

[A. C.] Wharton will speak on a panel about why the federal government needs to realign policies to meet the needs of metro areas and not just cities.

Wharton first spoke on a Brookings-led panel in November. In March, he was invited to New York by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to swap ideas with other big-city mayors about combating poverty.

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