Fri
Feb 9 2018
11:07 am
By: R. Neal
I was looking around for a report on the recent UTK Democrats town hall forum with Renee Hoyos and Joshua Williams, Democratic candidates for Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District.
Did not find a report, but fortunately the UTK Dems captured cellphone videos of the entire discussion on Facebook. Thanks! (Don't they have an AV club over there at UT?)
Anyway, here are the videos:
We are lucky to have two top quality candidates!
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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)
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- 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)
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State News
- 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)
- Opinion: The humbling of Marjorie Taylor Greene - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Five Below to open store in Highland Plaza - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Live updates: Donald Trump's hush money trial - CNN (US News)
- US Supreme Court justices in Trump case lean toward some level of immunity - Reuters (US News)
- Stock market today: Live updates - CNBC (Business)
- Microsoft results top Wall Street targets, driven by AI investment - Reuters (Business)
- Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at USC, UT-Austin, Emerson, Emory, Princeton - NPR (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)
- Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers - CNN (Business)
- Southwest to Exit Four Airports, Facing Financial Weakness and Boeing Problems - The Wall Street Journal (Business)
- Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada - The New York Times (Business)
- ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US over sale: Report - Al Jazeera English (US News)
- Patriots owner Robert Kraft: 'Jew-hatred' on U.S. college campuses is another parallel to Germany in 1930s and '40s - NBC News (US News)
- Meta's Zuckerberg can't calm Wall Street's nerves on AI spending, stock falls 10% - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- The FTC Is Banning Noncompetes. The Business Lobby Isn't Happy. - HuffPost (Business)
- Idaho's abortion ban is sending pregnant patients out of state - NBC News (US News)
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Many thanks to the Joshua
Many thanks to the Joshua Williams team for visiting our neighborhood. I appreciate their efforts. Who knows, maybe there is a chance for a Democrat to take Duncan's seat.