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Mar 14 2022
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Discussing:
- Georgia issues burn ban, first time in state history (2 replies)
- 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
- Louisville, TN, town center coming soon? (BlountViews)
- Siemens expending in Blount County, But... (BlountViews)
- Maryville Arts Walk - 3rd Thursday - today thru Oct. 15 (BlountViews)
- Candidate for U.S. Rep., against Burchett campaigns Saturday, 4/18/2026, Blount County (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
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
- VIDEO: See homes being demolished ahead of Western Heights Initiative Phases 5-6 (WATE)
- 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)
News Sentinel
State News
- UTC golf notebook: Woodruff won’t return as women’s coach - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- 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)
Wire Reports
- Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 Move Higher; Oil Climbs — Live Updates - WSJ (Business)
- Melania Trump calls for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired after ‘expectant widow’ joke in WHCD skit - Politico (US News)
- Trump reacts to White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect's "manifesto," and more highlights from his "60 Minutes" interview - CBS News (US News)
- Hill GOP braces for ‘nightmare week’ as pressure mounts to end DHS funding standoff - CNN (US News)
- White House press dinner shooting raises questions over security at event - The Guardian (US News)
- OpenAI breaks off Microsoft exclusivity to free up path for Amazon, Google deals - Reuters (Business)
- Human Remains Found in Tampa Bay in Search for Missing Student - The New York Times (US News)
- King Charles’s rare state visit offers U.K. a chance to mend ties with Trump - The Washington Post (US News)
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI - The Verge (Business)
- China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion purchase of AI startup Manus - Reuters (Business)
- John Ternus says Apple has ‘so much’ opportunity to expand services - 9to5Mac (Business)
- St. Louis region upgraded to a level 4 out of 5 threat for severe weather - STLPR (US News)
- California Billionaires Tax Scores Enough Signatures For Ballot, Organizers Say - Forbes (US News)
- United Airlines Says It Pitched American on Merger but Was Rebuffed - The New York Times (Business)
- Domino's Pizza falls after same-store sales miss expectations (DPZ:NASDAQ) - Seeking Alpha (Business)
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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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Still be careful out there
Still be careful out there even if you are in a low transmission area. Obama now has Covid-19 and he lives in an area with low a community level and has been fully vaccinated and boosted.
We are definitely in better shape than in December/January. However, we are still not down to the numbers of June/July 2021.