Wed
Oct 14 2020
05:38 am
By: R. Neal
Early voting starts today for the Nov. 3 general election.
Knox County
• General info
• Early voting locations
• Early voting schedule
• Sample ballot
Blount County
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- State of TN proposes exempting voucher students from standardized testing (1 reply)
- Feds indict civil rights group (2 replies)
- UAE asks for financial assistance? (1 reply)
- Are our deployed military going hungry? (1 reply)
- Tennessee passes bill to restrict college students' protests (1 reply)
- Inflation up, gas up, food up, consumer sentiment lowest ever (1 reply)
- Some AI uses are "outside the bounds of safe/reliable technology" (2 replies)
- A Letter to the U.S. Congress (1 reply)
- President: we can't take care of daycare, Medicare, Medicaid (1 reply)
- U.S. House Democratic Leadership says to Stop the Madness (1 reply)
- Am I missing something? (1 reply)
TN Progressive
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- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
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- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
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- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
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TN Politics
- US Supreme Court to hear case on legal status of more than 350,000 Haitians and Syrians (TN Lookout)
- Cash for Clout database: Who’s funding Tennessee’s politics? (TN Lookout)
- Time for a change? Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s challenge in final year of his term (TN Lookout)
- Trump: Suspect in Washington press dinner shooting created a ‘manifesto’ for attack (TN Lookout)
- Trump uninjured after gunfire at Washington press dinner; suspect in custody (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee court delays trial over abortion ban using new appeals law (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Jermod McCoy: Sad setback cost $20 million (Knox TN Today)
- The Miracles from the Gulf after Katrina: Part I (Knox TN Today)
- KPD’s Caleb Bailey: Leader is a word he & his boss use (Knox TN Today)
- Law Day is Wednesday + John Haupt joins DA office + blotter ++ (Knox TN Today)
- Meet Anna: Monday’s Parent-A-Child (Knox TN Today)
- Earn and Learn Signing Days (Knox TN Today)
- Mission Monday: Empowering community ministries. Today’s focus on Hillcrest Healthcare Foundation (Knox TN Today)
- Allergies: When the symptoms are bad. (Knox TN Today)
- HEADLINES: News and events from the World, the USA, Tennessee, Knox & Historic Notes (Knox TN Today)
- Recidivism is not a mystery. It is a measurement problem (Knox TN Today)
- TOA seeing patients in more East Tennessee locations (Knox TN Today)
- Softball to play final SEC series at home and honor seniors (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Person rescued after being ejected from boat on Melton Hill Lake (WATE)
- Man dies after falling from raft on the Ocoee River: TWRA (WATE)
- ‘Built for our neighbors’: New solar farm goes live in Maryville, feeding power into local grid (WATE)
- Knoxville Weather: Warm weather continues Monday ahead of rain and storm chances (WATE)
- Two dead after crash involving parked tractor-trailer on I-75 in Campbell County (WATE)
- Sweetwater woman gives birth prematurely at home, relying on teen daughter (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Mocs men’s basketball adds freshman guard - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Video: Enterprise South Nature Park opened a new play area, Wildwood Playscape - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga-based Echelon to pay at least $2.1 million in federal tariff settlement - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Paschall: Erlanger Park also serving as a mini Riverbend - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 Move Higher; Oil Climbs — Live Updates - WSJ (Business)
- White House press dinner shooting raises questions over security at event - The Guardian (US News)
- Domino's Pizza stock falls on disappointing sales — and CEO thinks more chains will follow - CNBC (Business)
- Florida's DeSantis unveils a voting map that could add to Trump's GOP redistricting - NPR (US News)
- King Charles’s rare state visit offers U.K. a chance to mend ties with Trump - The Washington Post (US News)
- China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion purchase of AI startup Manus - Reuters (Business)
- Melania Trump urges ABC to 'take stand' on Jimmy Kimmel after widow joke - BBC (US News)
- Short sellers' bets on life insurance stocks soar as private credit concerns grow - Reuters (Business)
- John Ternus says Apple has ‘so much’ opportunity to expand services - 9to5Mac (Business)
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission - The Guardian (Business)
- Florida student murder suspect Hisham Abugharbieh asked ChatGPT about body disposal - Sky News (US News)
- United Airlines Says It Pitched American on Merger but Was Rebuffed - The New York Times (Business)
- Treasury yields are little changed ahead of Fed policy week - CNBC (Business)
- ‘It’s going to be a circus’: Inside Mike Johnson’s grueling week - Politico (US News)
- Billionaire-tax backers say they have enough signatures — times two — to qualify for ballot - Los Angeles Times (US News)
Local Media
Lost Medicaid Funding
To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
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Election workers at our
Election workers at our voting location were wearing plastic shields, not masks. Sheesh. Called the Blount County election commission. They said the workers had the choice of plastic shield or mask. Wonder who came up with that brilliant idea.