Sun
May 13 2012
10:48 am
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Discussing:
- Dickey Betts has gone to meet his brothers (1 reply)
- Boeing was once known for safety and engineering (7 replies)
- Nearly 40 families being evicted in Maryville, new ownership (3 replies)
- Cost of car ownership on the rise, becoming unsustainable for some drivers (5 replies)
- Beware bad tax advice on the Internet (3 replies)
- Opoid treament across the bridge in SoKno (4 replies)
- Is tap water safe to drink? CDC report highlights deadly waterborne infections (4 replies)
- TN Republicans pushing to allow open carry of assault rifles despite pushback (2 replies)
- As some countries spurn cars, the U.S. continues to embrace highways (1 reply)
- Private equity ownership of hospitals made care riskier for patients, a new study finds (20 replies)
- USPS Knoxville facility (1 reply)
- Springtime is here and Dogwoods are blossoming (2 replies)
TN Progressive
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- Winter at the Big Rocks (Whitescreek Journal)
- Maryville Daily Times Home Delivery changing again (BlountViews)
- Amazon facility in Rockford finally opens (BlountViews)
- Share your ideas for the Blount County Comprehensive Plan 2023 (BlountViews)
- Secrets from My Radio Days (Joe Powell)
- Fall 2022 (Whitescreek Journal)
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TN Politics
- Tennessee Legislature can aid state’s obesity problem (TN Lookout)
- Senate rejects two impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Mayorkas (TN Lookout)
- Senate education chair: Voucher agreement needed by week’s end for passage (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic and reloading (TN Lookout)
- Budget clears House, Senate panels, but voucher bill on hold (TN Lookout)
- Republican lawmakers make vocal push against Chattanooga VW plant union effort (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Drumming up some happy (Knox TN Today)
- Prayers asked for hostage Ohad Ben Ami (Knox TN Today)
- The Tindells take Knox the Fox to Colorado (Knox TN Today)
- Great Smokies Welcome Center opens in Townsend (Knox TN Today)
- Tips from a master gardener (Knox TN Today)
- Private gardens open to the public this weekend (Knox TN Today)
- Farragut Rotary, SHP build beds for 51 kids (Knox TN Today)
- Pickleball tourney at West Hills (Knox TN Today)
- Could microforests help us reclaim neglected spaces? (Knox TN Today)
- Parlor Doughnuts to open Saturday on Magnolia (Knox TN Today)
- Blount baker creates bouquet cupcakes (Knox TN Today)
- Food City hiring 550 in Knoxville Division (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Mayor pushes back on TDOT project plans to widen Louisville Road (WATE)
- Cumberland Gap Volunteer Fire Department raising funds for fire truck (WATE)
- Father finds purpose in organ donation after death of son (WATE)
- Sevierville attraction under investigation by TN Department of Agriculture (WATE)
- Knoxville hosts community meeting as pedestrian bridge project progresses (WATE)
- Dirty food slicer found during West Knoxville restaurant inspection (WATE)
- Knoxville man must serve 26 years in prison for child sex crimes (WBIR)
- Downtown Knoxville festival featuring cuisine and performances returns on April 20 (WBIR)
- 'I want to go to college': Renounce Denounce graduates first class from its gang intervention program (WBIR)
- Service & Sacrifice: H-bomb Eyewitness (WBIR)
- Lenoir City man uses personal tragedy to help others (WBIR)
- Looking back: Blount County man one of several East Tennesseans on death row (WBIR)
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- Bradley Central stars highlight area’s all-state girls’ basketball picks - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- List of Tennessee state books inked, including the Bible - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga man found guilty of murder of 20-year-old UTC student, receives second life sentence - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Sean O’Brien named UTC Police Chief - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Netflix: Profits soar after password sharing crackdown - BBC.com (Business)
- Columbia University pro-Palestinian protests: NYPD arrests over 100 - Axios (US News)
- TSMC's shares slide nearly 7% in Taipei on global chip outlook concerns - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- Japan Nikkei 225 Falls Toward Technical Correction Led by Chips Stocks - Bloomberg (Business)
- Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app? - BBC.com (US News)
- Bitcoin's next 'halving' is right around the corner. Here's what you need to know - The Associated Press (Business)
- Cruz: Democrats tossed ‘two centuries of precedent’ by rejecting Mayorkas articles of impeachment - The Hill (US News)
- Oil jumps 3%, spot gold hits record high after Israel launches strike in Iran - CNBC (Business)
- Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say - CNN (US News)
- Takeaways from the day a jury was selected to decide Donald Trump’s fate in the hush money trial - CNN (US News)
- Arm and torso believed to be those of slain Milwaukee teen found along Lake Michigan - NBC News (US News)
- Pro-Sheetz Sen. John Fetterman teases Biden over Wawa visit - New York Post (US News)
- ‘Legitimizes Ethereum like never before:’ All about the new Stablecoin Act - AMBCrypto News (Business)
- US rate setter tells BBC 'no hurry' to cut interest rates - BBC.com (Business)
- USC canceled Asna Tabassum’s valedictorian commencement speech. Here’s why. - Vox.com (US News)
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The Glossary is particularly
The Glossary is particularly interesting. What exactly are "strong" Charter School laws, and why do the southern states have the "weakest"?
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"Strong" charter school laws are, of course, "liberal" charter school laws--but the Heritage Foundation is disinclined to utter the word aloud.
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You may have caught on this KV thread my link to the Wiki listing of 9 states working with Battelle for Kids, the "ALEC of public education," as Randy characterized them?
I cross-refed the Wiki listing of those 9 states to data on this KV thread to show that 4 of those 9 states working with Battelle already have vouchers, tuition tax credits, or both (that's OH, LA, OK, and PA)?
Well, I just took a look on this Heritage Foundation map at the other 5 states working with Battelle--which are not yet operating voucher or tuition tax credit programs--to see what's going on in those 5 states (that's MA, NY, TN, SC, and TX).
Using the Heritage map, you'll see at a glance how many privatizing non-profits they cite as being hard at work in those other 5 states--especially in MA, NY, and TX.
Meanwhile, TN and SC now have governors in office who support vouchers (Bill Haslam and, per comments under Heritage's "Developments" heading on its SC page, Mark Sanford).
Unless those 5 states--including TN--generate a whole lotta pushback, it looks like the interlopers may soon bag those 5 states, too.
interloper n. 1. One that
interloper n. 1. One that interferes with the affairs of others, often for selfish reasons; a meddler.
it would be interesting to know to what extent the local enablers (i.e. the politicians and their surrogates) are invested in the charter and online education corporations. as far as i can see, this is just business as usual. a big business, to be sure ...
SC
Tamera,
SC Governor is Nikki Haley.
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Gotcha, Zach--I took that Mark Sanford mention off Heritage's page for SC, under the heading "Recent Developments," here.