Permit Patrol: 30 October 2006 | Growth | NashvillePost.com - Nashville Business News: "Whole Foods space underway
Hoar Construction LLC has started construction on the 52,777-square-foot shell building at 4015 Hillsboro Pike, in the former H.G. Hill space, that will house grocery chain Whole Foods. The permit is valued at $3.2 million. "
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Why does the term "refugee" have negative connotations that New Orleans residents don't want to be associated with? Is it because "refugees" are perceived to be foreigners, and we look down on foreigners?
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Shout It Out, Howard, We're Listening
Dean isn't out of line, he's just restoring the fiery tradition of Truman and Jefferson.
By Jim Edmunson, Jim Edmunson is chairman of the Oregon Democratic Party. He is an attorney in private practice in Eugene, and he served four terms in the state Legislature. He can be reached at [email protected].
Howard Dean's election as Democratic National Committee chairman was a shot across the bow of Washington's power clique, so it does not surprise us at the state-party level in Oregon that he is making our kin inside the Beltway nervous.
In fact, it delights us.
Dean speaks loudly about things our folks in Washington tip-toe to avoid. He condemns the Iraq war as misguided. He wonders why we don't worry more about nuclear weapons in North Korea.
Republicans preach morality, he says, but ignore poverty in the United States. Where is the respect for privacy when Republicans want to legislate end-of-life decisions for a brain-dead woman?
And Dean, the white Christian, acerbically grumbles that our nation is not stronger if we are viewed only as Caucasian mono-religious.
Are those comments misguided, or are they timely? The way we see it from this end of the country, the former presidential candidate is catching the wave.
Polls show that most Americans now oppose the Iraq war, favor the stem cell research that the Bush administration opposes and think Congress should not have meddled — and asked those dastardly "activist courts" to meddle — in the painful case of Terri Schiavo. That latter poll, incidentally, was taken before the brain-damaged woman's autopsy confirmed that she had no hope of recovery.
Based on the outcome of last year's election, Democrats in Washington fear that Dean is out of step with the swing moderates in both parties. That's an understandable concern, but it shouldn't outweigh our desire for leaders who stand on principle. It also ignores the apparent shift in the country's mood since the election.
One more thing. Washington Democrats tend to see the world through the prism of their own political futures. Those of us west of the Potomac recognize the impulse. But we want a party leader who inspires the Democratic base, keeps it involved and energized, and we want to hear truths because we have faith that straight talk is the best way to talk to Americans. There is more to leading this party than not scaring the horses.
Dean isn't out of line, he's just restoring the fiery tradition of Truman and Jefferson.
By Jim Edmunson, Jim Edmunson is chairman of the Oregon Democratic Party. He is an attorney in private practice in Eugene, and he served four terms in the state Legislature. He can be reached at [email protected].
Howard Dean's election as Democratic National Committee chairman was a shot across the bow of Washington's power clique, so it does not surprise us at the state-party level in Oregon that he is making our kin inside the Beltway nervous.
In fact, it delights us.
Dean speaks loudly about things our folks in Washington tip-toe to avoid. He condemns the Iraq war as misguided. He wonders why we don't worry more about nuclear weapons in North Korea.
Republicans preach morality, he says, but ignore poverty in the United States. Where is the respect for privacy when Republicans want to legislate end-of-life decisions for a brain-dead woman?
And Dean, the white Christian, acerbically grumbles that our nation is not stronger if we are viewed only as Caucasian mono-religious.
Are those comments misguided, or are they timely? The way we see it from this end of the country, the former presidential candidate is catching the wave.
Polls show that most Americans now oppose the Iraq war, favor the stem cell research that the Bush administration opposes and think Congress should not have meddled — and asked those dastardly "activist courts" to meddle — in the painful case of Terri Schiavo. That latter poll, incidentally, was taken before the brain-damaged woman's autopsy confirmed that she had no hope of recovery.
Based on the outcome of last year's election, Democrats in Washington fear that Dean is out of step with the swing moderates in both parties. That's an understandable concern, but it shouldn't outweigh our desire for leaders who stand on principle. It also ignores the apparent shift in the country's mood since the election.
One more thing. Washington Democrats tend to see the world through the prism of their own political futures. Those of us west of the Potomac recognize the impulse. But we want a party leader who inspires the Democratic base, keeps it involved and energized, and we want to hear truths because we have faith that straight talk is the best way to talk to Americans. There is more to leading this party than not scaring the horses.
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