Tennessee politics can be a very interesting thing. This year we have seen the Jason Mumpower/Kent Williams hootenanny, a crowded race for governor on both sides of the spectrum (I’m not talking about that one) and this week’s hokey pokey with the announcement of John Tanner citing [...]
This evening CM Michael Craddock observed the crowd gathered in council chambers to hear Karl Dean's plan for financing his convention center:As a new year looms closer, officials are turning a new leaf on the school system's $26.3 million budget deficit. Many old problems remain, but a new challenge to school finance is developing: overcrowded schools.
In the past, the school system's chronic budget deficit has been the result of too many [...]
Avoid the crowds and do some of your holiday shopping online! If you plan on purchasing any gifts online, please use the graphic below to visit Amazon.com and make your purchase there.From Chris Hitchens:
The Palin problem, then, might be that she cynically incites a crowd that she has no real intention of pleasing. If she were ever to get herself to the nation’s capital, the teabaggers would be just as much on the outside as they are now, and would [...]
Via Trace Sharp: Lou Dobbs has left CNN "to pursue other opportunities," apparently unaware that standing on street corners yelling about big government and foreigners is kind of a crowded field.
Lou Dobbs has left CNN “to pursue other opportunities,” apparently unaware that standing on street corners yelling about big government and foreigners is kind of a crowded field.
[...]The former presidential candidate talks about the possibility of making another run at book signing in Knoxville:
“Hadn’t made that decision and won’t until probably after the mid-term elections, but it’s pretty evident that if I do I may headquarter the whole thing right here in East Tennessee.”
[...]Rep. Marsha Blackburn on the amount of new right-wing radicals who are women:
“You know what is so interesting about the TEA Party movement?” Blackburn asked. “The amazing thing to me about the TEA Parties is, when you look out across the crowd, the crowd is predominantly female… It’s amazing, [...]
From the Greenville Sun:
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., spoke for more than an hour Wednesday, answering questions from nearly 100 people who attended a town hall meeting.
Not long ago, Corker said, “It was tough getting a crowd” for a town hall meeting, but in recent months, crowds at some [...]
Rep. Cohen signs on to an important piece of legislation for the pro-immigration crowd:
We are so pleased to announce that Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-9) has become the first Tennessee Representative to co-sponsor the DREAM Act (H.R. 1751)! Joining 105 others in the House, Rep. Cohen has made a strong [...]
A crowded campus leads to a rise in traffic jams and an overall lack of available spaces. Frustrated students say the parking system is in shambles, but the administration maintains it is doing students a favor.
On the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, the type of parking pass you buy [...]
Radio talk show host and columnist Phil Valentine, who says global warming doesn’t exist and is a critic of Gore, was hanging around the edges of the crowd hoping for an interview, along with some others who agree with Valentine’s view.
“You’re a traitor,” Matt Gulliver, 30, called [...]
From Andy Humbles:
At one point the crowd chanted “kill that bill” when the debate on health-care reform in Washington, D.C., was mentioned from the stage.
Signs in the crowd included:
• “Stop the spending or you’re fired!!!”
• “No to the healthcare bill.”
• “Congress you work for us.”
• “Born free — taxed [...]
Score on for the tea party crowd:
Just four days before the election, Republican nominee DeDe Scozzafava abandoned her campaign for the congressional seat in New York’s 23rd Congressional district. Why? “It was time to do the right thing, which is to release the Republican County chairs, they’ve stood by [...]
