Tue
Jan 31 2006
11:43 am
By: R. Neal
My latest post is up at Facing South:
There's a ton of other good stuff already up this week. Start at the top and keep scrolling...
And speaking of Facing South, the blog has been nominated for the 2005 Koufax Awards for excellence in lefty blogging. Facing South is nominated in two categories. Read more about it here, and be sure to vote!
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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
- EPA Blisters TVA Plans For Replacing Kingston Coal Plant With Gas (RoaneViews)
- Friday Toons (RoaneViews)
- Toon (RoaneViews)
- Glad to see a substantial candidate running against Chuck fLIEschman (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)
- Share your ideas for the Blount County Comprehensive Plan 2023 (BlountViews)
- Secrets from My Radio Days (Joe Powell)
- Fall 2022 (Whitescreek Journal)
- Mmmm, A Fresh Hot Cup of Joe (Joe Powell)
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
- Don DeVoe at 82 – plus bits ‘n pieces (Knox TN Today)
- Reeder Chevrolet property sells for $15.25 million (Knox TN Today)
- Advance Knox is good, could be better (Knox TN Today)
- Free Ride (Knox TN Today)
- All Hail the SnowBow! (Knox TN Today)
- Two services today for retired educator (Knox TN Today)
- Rickea Jackson lands in Los Angeles (Knox TN Today)
- Library studies information integrity (Knox TN Today)
- Linda Sullivan stretches our imagination (Knox TN Today)
- TCAP testing in progress: Take care (Knox TN Today)
- Trumpore and Barrier receive full ROTC scholarships (Knox TN Today)
- Dailey three score big at Chalk Walk (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Dirty food slicer found during West Knoxville restaurant inspection (WATE)
- Which roads will be closed for the 2024 Rossini Festival? (WATE)
- Former Greeneville dance team booster accused of stealing thousands (WATE)
- Man sentenced for second-degree murder in overdose death at Knox County motel (WATE)
- One dead after crash involving a motorcycle on Asheville Highway (WATE)
- Who are the 5 unclaimed veterans who died in East TN in 2023 (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)
News Sentinel
State News
- Photo of the Day - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Melanie Shepherd Obituary - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- James Furrate Obituary - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga's nine best high school baseball fields ranked - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Bryan Kohberger, accused in Idaho killings, says cellphone data will show he wasn’t near house - The Washington Post (US News)
- Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract - Reuters (Business)
- Mortgage rates surge past 7%, reaching highest level since November - CNN (Business)
- Kennedy Clan Endorses Biden, in a Show of Force Against R.F.K. Jr. - The New York Times (US News)
- US man arrested for allegedly throwing pipe bomb at Satanic Temple - The Guardian US (US News)
- Two seated jurors in Trump's hush money trial were excused, underscoring difficulty of finding impartial jurors - NBC News (US News)
- Trump Media stock jumps for second day as company goes to battle with short sellers - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- Elon Musk apologizes after Tesla gave 'incorrectly low' severance packages to some laid-off workers: report - Fox Business (Business)
- Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin 'Halving' - The New York Times (Business)
- 911 outages in several states caused by company installing a light pole - ABC News (US News)
- US Bond Yields Climb on Interest-Rate Hike Mention by Fed’s Williams - Bloomberg (Business)
- Tornadoes confirmed in Delaware, Champaign and Crawford counties by National Weather Service - NBC4 WCMH-TV (US News)
- Netflix stock has been on massive run — that makes for 'tricky' earnings set up - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- GOP members urge Johnson to swiftly change rules over vacating speakership - CNN (US News)
- Kale, watermelon and even some organic foods pose high pesticide risk, analysis finds - The Guardian (Business)
Local Media
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To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
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