Wed
Mar 19 2014
10:52 am
By: R. Neal
Apologies for being MIA. Been laid up and also dealing with some other stuff. Plus I needed a break anyway. Thanks to our readers for picking up some of the slack.
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Discussing:
- News on potential passenger rail locations in Tennessee could be coming later this year (3 replies)
- Tennessee legislature passes bill to let teachers carry guns (1 reply)
- Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville (1 reply)
- Boeing was once known for safety and engineering (8 replies)
- Kerns Food Hall to Open Saturday (4 replies)
- KAT working on new micro-transit service to help people get to jobs and needed appointments (1 reply)
- Tennessee Volkswagen workers vote to join union (2 replies)
- Blount County, TDOT make road deal for gun mfg ignoring town of Louisville,TN (1 reply)
- Dickey Betts has gone to meet his brothers (1 reply)
- 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)
TN Progressive
- Toons (RoaneViews)
- Blount County, TDOT make road deal for gun mfg ignoring town of Louisville,TN, (BlountViews)
- EPA Blisters TVA Plans For Replacing Kingston Coal Plant With Gas (RoaneViews)
- Friday Toons (RoaneViews)
- Toon (RoaneViews)
- It's voting time again. Let's get out the vote. (BlountViews)
- Winter at the Big Rocks (Whitescreek Journal)
- Maryville Daily Times Home Delivery changing again (BlountViews)
- Amazon facility in Rockford finally opens (BlountViews)
- Secrets from My Radio Days (Joe Powell)
- Fall 2022 (Whitescreek Journal)
- Mmmm, A Fresh Hot Cup of Joe (Joe Powell)
TN Politics
- New EPA rules will force fossil fuel power plants to cut pollution (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee passes legislation to reform hospital certificate of need law (TN Lookout)
- Biden cracks jokes about Trump’s hair, acquires another major union endorsement (TN Lookout)
- Corporate capture, the Covenant shooting, and a crippled system we must change (TN Lookout)
- House kills anti-reparations bill despite lawmaker’s effort to save it (TN Lookout)
- Supreme Court justices appear split over whether to protect abortion care during emergencies (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Hey, what about us – the current residents? (Knox TN Today)
- Central High to host ‘Bobcat Bash’ (Knox TN Today)
- Maples gets another 4-year term at First Utility (Knox TN Today)
- When more (documents) means less (value) (Knox TN Today)
- Three named to Access to Justice Commission (Knox TN Today)
- Two honored at Pellissippi Strong luncheon (Knox TN Today)
- Savannah Jackson’s art on display across ET (Knox TN Today)
- Honey Badger and the Fiery Gizzard (Knox TN Today)
- Ayres Hall (Knox TN Today)
- Service Sunday for retired CHS teacher (Knox TN Today)
- Conrad Majors owned a bicycle shop at age 16 (Knox TN Today)
- Cierra Burdick seeks spot on 3×3 Olympic team (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Maryville man faces vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment counts in death of young Kingston Pike pedestrian (WBIR)
- From volleyball to welcoming POWs, Leslie Phillips recalls her time in the Air Force during the Vietnam era (WATE)
- Athens woman charged with murder after mother's body found in Rockwood (WATE)
- After son's tragic death, Knoxville family hopes 'Ben Kredich Act' will save lives (WATE)
- '30 years in the making': 150 people gain US citizenship at Big South Fork ceremony (WATE)
- Knoxville Diocese, religious group reach mediated settlement with woman who claimed abuse, intimidation (WBIR)
- New cell phone ban in Hamblen County Schools praised by parents (WATE)
- Bacon, pancakes tossed at Loudon restaurant during inspection (WATE)
- Man pleads guilty in fatal Magnolia Avenue drag-racing crash (WBIR)
- Former KCSO deputy gets 4-year prison sentence for sending videos from girl's phone (WBIR)
- Fentress Co. grand jury indicts parents accused of starving two adopted daughters (WBIR)
- 'It's every day for me' | Mother of woman who fatally overdosed now warning people about fentanyl (WBIR)
News Sentinel
State News
- Two reportedly shot, injured outside Champy's in downtown Chattanooga - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Tennessee passes law in honor of Chattanooga businessman Chris Wright - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Bill spurring affordable housing clears Tennessee legislature - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Opinion: You’ve been wronged; that doesn’t make you right - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Where campus protests have led to arrests across the U.S. - The Washington Post (US News)
- 5 takeaways from historic Supreme Court arguments on Trump's immunity claim - ABC News (US News)
- Microsoft earnings: Stock charges higher on strong Azure growth - MarketWatch (Business)
- Donald Trump's hush money trial - CNN (US News)
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers - The Associated Press (Business)
- The ex-flight attendant who became the first female boss of Japan Airlines - BBC.com (Business)
- ByteDance would shut down TikTok in US rather than sell it, sources say - The Guardian (US News)
- 'It's a big deal': President Joe Biden celebrates Micron in Syracuse - CNYcentral.com (Business)
- Bodycam video shows handcuffed man telling Ohio officers 'I can't breathe' before his death - NBC News (US News)
- Emerson College protests broken up by Boston police, 108 arrested at pro-Palestinian camp, 4 officers hurt - CBS Boston (US News)
- Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- Honda to build 240K EVs a year with historic $11B investment - Electrek.co (Business)
- Southwest to Exit Four Airports, Facing Financial Weakness and Boeing Problems - The Wall Street Journal (Business)
- Emergency flights for pregnant patients up sharply in Idaho under strict abortion law - NPR (US News)
- UT-Austin professors, students protest on campus: Live updates - Austin American-Statesman (US News)
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