WKRN.com is making changes in the number of blogs on our site. We want to encourage viewer feedback about the issues we cover. Look for Bob Mueller's future posts on our new newsroom blog coming soon called "WKRN News Extra." We hope that by streamlining our blogs, it will [...]
Likely Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson was in town yesterday…a quiet visit as his staff and key advisors gear up for what is heading toward a Labor day week formal announcement.
The Thompson camp continues to be the center of the rumor swirl… the latest, whether President Bush’s key [...]
The Fred Thompson love fest appears to be coming to an end. For so long, Thompson could do not wrong. He was the one being courted to run…. He was the one making all the right moves dipping his toe into the presidential waters coyly while excited supporters urged [...]
Its crunch time in the race for mayor of Nashville. In 10 days, voters go to the polls (those who have not voted early) to make their choice. For 3 weeks now, the candidates have been spending thousands on television campaign ads. For months the candidates have been taking [...]
After months of waiting and with only 3 weeks to go until Election Day…the 5 major mayoral candidates are all now up on television with campaign commercials.
The spots are all thematic... Karl Dean who has been on the air for months now continues with his theme….education, crime, growth [...]
A while back, someone asked me on my blog to share photo’s of my family. I promised I would and can now keep that promise.
Here now my 3 great kids…
Mari on the right, the oldest, she’s 19, William on the left, he’s 16 and Nick [...]
On Monday I hosted the 11th annual…“Bob Mueller M.S. Celebrity Golf Classic”. I could not let the event conclude without a quick thank you to all those involved.
For 11 years now I have had the privilege of hosting this event, designed to raise funds to combat the disease [...]
Nashville lost a canine star this week, with the passing of “Woody Trickett”. For those of you new to town, Woody, a 12 year old chocolate lab was the mascot of the Trickett Honda car dealership.
Woody starred for 10 years in television commercials advertising the dealership…Woody would [...]
Did you ever play the telephone game when you were a kid? You know, you tell someone a story, they tell it to someone else and so on until it gets back to you. When it returns, the story rarely resembles anything close to its original form.
This weekend, [...]
If you are at all interested in politics, is this a great time to be in Tennessee or what? Fred Thompson and Al Gore have owned the airwaves locally and nationally.
Watch any of the Sunday Political shows, or others like MSNBC’s “Hardball” and the talk with eventually get [...]
An important and enduring symbol…its one definition for the word icon. That word has been use a lot recently in stories about the retirement of News Channel 5 anchor Chris Clark….and in this case, it actually fits.
Chris leaves the anchor desk after an amazing 41 years of service [...]
So we get the call this weekend, the call every parent worries about. It’s about 2 in the morning, the phone rings…my wife picks up the phone and sees on the caller ID… Police.
Our 2 boys are camping out with some friends in a common area of our [...]
The Mayors race is well underway in Nashville. The question is anyone paying any attention? The election is in August, less than 3 months away and the buzz about this race has been non existent.
The 5 major candidates, Bob Clement, Buck Dozier, Howard Gentry. David Briley and Karl [...]
It is always interesting how 2 people can view the same event and come away with completely different opinions. That seems to be the case with Fred Thompson’s speech Friday night. Mixed is how many are describing the reaction.
I’ve reported on Fred Thompson for many years and [...]
Here is, in my opinion, a bad idea I hope does not gain traction…News Anchors giving their opinions of news and events during a newscast. I know I just gave you my opinion of this idea, but it was not during a newscast, I think there is a huge [...]
The 2008 Presidential has been in full force for months now…this week, the true start of the campaign was anointed at the first candidates debate of the season. Democrats squared off in South Carolina, the earliest Presidential debate ever.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, [...]
We lost a legend of journalism this week with the untimely death of journalist and author David Halberstam in a traffic accident near San Francisco. Halberstam was one of the giants of journalism, and he got his start here in Nashville.
Born in New York, Halberstam worked at the [...]
