TABOR Update: Oak Ridge
Efforts to put a Taxpayers Bill of Rights into the charter of the city of Oak Ridge get some coverage from the nearby Knoxville News-Sentinel. The Oak Ridge effort is led by MartinMcBride, leader of a successful grassroots referendum effort that killed a large city bond issue that was designed mostly to benefit a private mall developer. The Knox paper also offers this column from Bob Fowler, the paper's Oak Ridge reporter.

Incidentally, McBride writes in an email that the New-Sentinel's Oak Ridge reporter hasn't called McBride's organization, Citizens for Oak Ridge Accountability, in three months, though he has covered both the bond issue referendum and the emerging TABOR drive.

Perhaps that's because the reporter, Bob Fowler, is opposed to TABOR - as this laughably bad column shows. Fowler, by my count, raises three questions about McBride and his organizations. Perhaps it was just too tough to actually pick up the phone and call.

Feel free to email Bob Fowler and tell him how bad his column was - and urge him to actually McBride before he writes another story - by sending email to bfowler@infi.net.