As long as Commission meetings are still shown on cable then this is a good thing. If for any reason ( $$$ ) the cable broadcasts end then this is not a good thing at all.

"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984

Keep an eye on the AT&T statewide cable franchise bill and its threats to PEG programming. You know, the one Bredesen teamed up with state house Dem and GOP legislators and AT&T lobbyists to ram through.

But beyond that, do you have any information or reason to believe this is some kind of substitute for cable broadcast of meetings (which, last time I checked, weren't live and were about a week or so behind)?

Live streaming of the Budget Committee was interesting. Jail Pod tabled until July.

No one has yet been able to explain to me how you alleviate jail overcrowding by taking in more prisoners from outside your jurisdiction. Maybe the numbers work, but it must be some curious math.

So, by tabling it until July, they take it out of the county budget debate? For a better chance of slipping it through as a "real money maker" opportunity for Blount Co.?

Anyone who thinks Blount Co. ought to get deeper into the incarceration business should go take a ride around Morgan Co.