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Primary County Commission District 2

Knoxpolitico — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:22:07 -0500

Looks like Commissioner Broyles is getting a primary challenge. Link... ... read more

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R. Neal — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:26:28 -0500

I got over to the Verizon store at Turkey Creek Friday at around 8:40. By 9AM I was out the door with a fully provisioned and functioning Ve... read more

Cooper votes Yes on Health Care Bill

bill young — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:58:48 -0500

Jim Cooper voted for the health care bill that passed in the House yesterday. Joe Armstrong,according to Pith in the Wind, signed a letter u... read more

What we have here is a failure to communicate

R. Neal — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:33:45 -0500

So today we went over to my Mom and Dad's for my Dad's 85th birthday. (Happy birthday, Dad!) We're giving my older sister (who is deaf and l... read more

Madeline's qualifications for Mayor

awoodle — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:13:09 -0500

Folks interested in learning about Madeline's qualifications will get the most complete information by talking directly with her. Contact Ma... read more

If displays like today are what they think is a smart political strategy, all we can say is: go for it

EricLykins — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:21:08 -0500

Remember those who put profits over people this year and tried to turn us against each other. You will see this one a lot today. Saturday ni... read more

Blasting underway for mountaintop removal coal mining operation at proposed 328MW wind farm site

EricLykins — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:29:58 -0500

Annual energy production of the proposed wind farm would exceed that of mined coal after only 14 years, when the second of the three mines i... read more

Posted from my new Droid

R. Neal — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:39:33 -0500

This is cool. More later. About 20 people at the Verizon store at Turkey Creek. They have 300 phones. UPDATE: GPS with spoken turn-by-turn d... read more

Shame on me.

Terry Troll — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:12:57 -0500

They almost fooled me. I wrote a brief comment on my glee at the current political purging in the GOP over at Knoxknews this morning, hit th... read more

New Madrid Fault Continues Aftershocks

rocketsquirrel — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:51:19 -0500

When small earthquakes shake the central U.S., citizens often fear the rumbles are signs a big earthquake is coming. Fortunately, new resear... read more

Magazine: Smokies ringed by ugliness

jbr — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:08:56 -0500

The News-Sentinel has put out a teaser for a Friday article about the unpleasant development that surrounds the Smoky Mountains. I would lik... read more

Spree shooting at Ft. Hood

SnM — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:07 -0500

Possibly 3 shooters, at least 7 dead, 20 wounded. ... read more

Developer corners the market at Henley and Clinch

R. Neal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:28:56 -0500

Josh Flory: Downtown Holiday Inn under contract: Developer Nick Cazana said Thursday that he has a signed contract to buy the downtown Holid... read more

Heath Shuler Cleared Completely

WhitesCreek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:27:24 -0500

There was nothing in Shuler's TVA deal that was improper in any way and now it's official. Gee, I wonder who was stirring this up anyway? ... read more

Easiest way to send a letter to your local editor

EricLykins — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:21 -0500

Click here, choose a state, choose a major publication (sorry Metropulse*), click compose, sound off, get published. The tools of your liber... read more

FIRST vote ever held on single-payer health care in the full House of Representatives (um, possibly)

EricLykins — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:28:17 -0500

Seems I declared it dead prematurely: We just learned that there is a strong possibility that Speaker Pelosi WILL allow a vote on single-pay... read more

Energy, Health Care, what was the other thing?

EricLykins — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:10:58 -0500

Andy Berke remembers If we are to have fewer Tennesseans in poverty and a growing middle class, we will do so through _________ ... read more

Depends on the meaning of "Irrelevance"

WhitesCreek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:38:18 -0500

Relevance must mean eyeballs not actual discourse. I continue to be amazed at the smallness of the thinking. A snip from MetroPulse: “Ther... read more

I'm for Madeline!

bill young — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:25:40 -0500

I'm 100% behind Madeline for mayor of Knoxville. Time to start telling your neighbors. I'm for Madeline. Thinks it's too early? Think again ... read more

Public Meeting: Permanent Supportive Housing in West Knox County

Robert Finley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:32:56 -0500

I'm forwarding this from Grant Rosenberg in Knox County's Office of Neighborhoods and Community Development. As has been discussed here and ... read more

I Have Lost My Best Friend

redmondkr — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:44:14 -0500

My brave friend and constant companion left me this morning after a brief bout with the same type of cancer that took his sister Miss Heidi... read more

Lands Worth Preserving - Scenic Tennessee Photo Contest Winners Exhibit Opens at East TN History Center

Lisa Starbuck — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:55:48 -0500

Start: Nov 6 2009 - 18:00 End: Nov 6 2009 - 20:00 Timezone: US/Eastern Scenic Knoxville invites its members and friends to the preview of th... read more

Confabulation, or the off-term elections....

metulj — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:26:26 -0500

Bloomberg: while I don't like the repeal of term limits, he's the best mayor my old environs (I miss living there sometimes) has ever had. W... read more

More than 170 proposed Recovery Act projects have been halted or altered; must use W's golf cart credit before year's end

EricLykins — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:54:01 -0500

Recovery.gov addresses myths: With last Friday’s unprecedented release of information on Recovery.gov, we’ve begun to see lots of inter... read more

Tennesseeans aren't fat because we drink too much: fun with data.gov app

EricLykins — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:43:38 -0500

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJ... read more

More from NY-23: Ayn Rand's Reverse Bolshevists call for purity.

metulj — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:29:47 -0500

Purges? From Red State's Commissar: "We should be magnanimous in victory -- and whether Hoffman wins or loses, as long as Dede Scozzafava l... read more

Knoxville City Council election results

R. Neal — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:41:03 -0500

Early and absentee vote: Pavlis, Grieve, Palmer, Della Volpe, Brown. Final Results: 48 of 48 precincts (100%) reporting: • 1st District... read more

Republicans give up on empty rhetoric, want to go toe to toe with YOU on health care bill, line by line

EricLykins — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:18:10 -0500

OpenCongress and GovTrack are thrilled that people are using the open government tools. Here’s a great example of the kind of textually-in... read more

Libraries and Homeless

StaceyDiamond — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:05:55 -0500

For years I remember a public News Sentinel being available with a wood stick in it at the downtown library. I did not realize they had sto... read more

NY-23 Polling Places Besieged by GlennBeckians and Texas "commissioners."

metulj — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:09:20 -0500

Hoo boy. Nothing says "freedom lovers" than acting like rejects from the Weimar Republic. ... read more