I do not know anything about Jeff Rose Kenny Wiggins, Maryville and Alcoa's H20 quality control managers. Having said that, I am extremely disturbed in what I am reading in the papers on just how they are managing something that could definitely become a crisis. I've worked a bit in the water treatment area and can tell you that: 1) if you are nearing a real problem you make d&mn certain your instrumentation is calibrated and is reading correctly!, 2) you don't brag about being able to monitor 10 x a day and that you can even monitor through your cell phone - you get off you chair and you go to the water source and LOOK at the flow!, 3) when your gauges read 37cfs but the Little River's flow LOOKS like it is flowing at 33cfs - borrow or find another way to certify the flow, 4) what's the PLAN for a crisis? or is the PLAN being worked on and not ready to implement?, 5) why aren't they suggesting people get out the 'ole' dish pan, turn the dishwashers off, get your hands wet, and when you finished - take that 'ole' dish pan outside to your newly planted yard and water, 6) don't sit on your hands and pray for rain, let us do the praying.

This can be very serious folks and I am not getting a warm and fuzzy feeling that the people in charge know what they are doing. My feeling is that when the rate gets to 30 or 29cfs, the State Water personel will say, "find your water supply somewhere else. We have too many species of plants, fish, etc. in the Little River that will die."

Three large civil rights organizations sent a formal letter Wednesday to the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary expressing concern over Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young’s treatment of Ana Calixto,

Link...

This issue is far from being over. When campaign time rolls around, many feel that he with the most signs wins!

The battle being waged in the Opinions section of the Daily Times is not all that different than those campaign signs. Will he with the most letters of support in the Daily Times win?

I don't think so.

I ordered new carpet from one of our local big box stores. As I sit here to write this I am surrounded by the sounds of hammers. It is so noisy in here that I can barely hear James McMurtry singing Childish Things.

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in

Did I mention this work crew does not speak English? Should I ask for documents or believe their employer?

Update! The very letter is now available for viewing at Link...

Dang! The Times does video and document linking all within the same week!

Three cheers for Charles Clifford. Link... It can't be easy for him to have to have been truthful considering where he works everyday.

In another LTTE Link... , Sgt. RL Dowdy extols the virtues of Judge Young, a man he considers a friend. Sgt. Dowdy does this under the pretext of just having read the first DT article. (Three weeks and more facts later, does he still feel the same about this Legal resident?)