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Hot on the heels of news that the TN legislature is putting off state-level traffic camera reforms until at least next year, here's an innovative response to traffic camera gripes from our neighbors in Sullivan County.

Police chief David Nelson excused it away, commenting that "It just slipped my mind. If you open up a Web site and let it go down, somebody can buy it - I did not know that."

Way to join us in the 21st century, guys!

It's been less than 12 hours since former Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison officially walked away from the County Mayor GOP primary with a smidge less than 15 percent of the vote, but it appears that the campaign signs are already being unceremoniously thrown out.  The "Tim Hutchison for Knox County Mayor" Facebook page has been deleted, and hutchisonformayor.com currently redirects right back to Google.

Abrupt responses are one thing, but a complete vanish from the Web without so much as a "thanks for your support"?  Perhaps they're just in a temporary holding pattern while Hutchison prepares a post congratulating Tim Burchett on his primary victory.

UPDATE: The campaign twitter account is gone, too.

Betty Bean has a couple of nice little anecdotes about Knoxville's premiere "maybe we cover you, maybe we don't" cable service provider.

The latest in my "Tenuously Related to the Blog's Theme" series

In which the UNIVERSITY might benefit from my GENEROSITY

In which I exercise my CIVIC DUTY

In which I LAMENT unexpected levels of LITERACY