Archive for January, 2008
Your family planning options in the greater Knoxville area just shrunk
Several relatively mainstream family planning services currently offered by Baptist hospitals in Knoxville will be discontinued as part of the new Mercy Health partners merger. To wit:
Tubal ligation, a birth-control procedure at odds with Roman Catholic beliefs, is no longer being offered to patients of Baptist Health System, which ended the practice as part [...]
The plight of the single man
Via Dr. Helen:
Experts say society still favors married men over their single counterparts, though. The most common complaints come from the workplace, where many say they are discriminated against.
“Especially as you approach your mid-30s and 40s and all your colleagues around you are married, there’s a lot of unsaid words that go on and feelings [...]
State’s GOP big names divided on Briley apology
GOP Spokesman Bill Hobbs responded to Rob Briley’s formal apology on Capitol Hill yesterday by commenting on the matter at Volunteer Voters, saying:
“Is having an affair with the trial lawyers’ lobbyist one of the things he’s not proud of?”
And:
It’s a serious question that gets to the heart of a serious matter. Briley today apologized for [...]
ShutterSisters
A wonderful new photoblog well worth your feedreader’s time.
I wish I could take pictures like that.
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I saw it on KnoxTube
This is grassroots new media done right and done hyper-local.
(And I think I was at that Gut Truck show back in the day…)
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Public relations nightmares
Cathy Ackermann blogs the top 10 communications crises of 2007, ranging from rats to foreclosures to deathtrap toys.
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VIDEO: White death ravages Downtown Knoxville!
We have the footage! Snowflakes on Market Square! Flurries over Henley Street! A light dusting coating the Sunsphere (or as my new-to-Knoxville-coworker referred to it earlier today, “that World’s Fair Ball”).
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Top Tennessee Thompson adviser endorsing McCain
NashvillePost has the exclusive scoop:
B.C. “Scooter” Clippard, a prominent Tennessee Republican who served as
national finance chairman for the Fred Thompson for President campaign,
confirmed to NashvillePost.com that he is now backing John McCain.
Clippard says he still believes Thompson would have made a great president, but McCain is a strong second choice.
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Read More..>>Babymama - Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Like every other white, middle class, college educated woman between the age of 32 and 44 in America, I generally find Tina Fey and Amy Poehler clever and amusing, but the trailer for their new movie isn’t doing much for me.
How about you?
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Never bring a chainsaw to a gunfight
(Alternate title: “Don’t make me fire up this chainsaw!!”)
Crossville man in trouble for going after his neighbor with a chainsaw:
An argument between Cumberland Plateau neighbors escalated with a shotgun and a chain saw. Now Michael Shane Spurrier is charged with felony aggravated assault.
Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies said Spurrier and Christopher Rogers got into a row [...]
Cas Walker’s lingering influence
Seems some folks in the South Blount Utility District aren’t real happy with the plan to begin flouridating their water.
The utility’s board of directors, at the request of Blount County Mayor Jerry Cunningham, voted Jan. 2 to begin fluoridation of the district’s water system as soon as possible.
“(District Manager Henry Durant has) been getting a [...]
Some backstory on the proposed Cazana Downtown development
I knew there was a lawsuit being filed in opposition to the project, but I didn’t realize until I saw this in the KNS today that the plaintiff is an employee of Franklin Haney.
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Isn’t it ironic…
…that the state legislature may now approve a bill allowing guns in places that serve alcohol (the so-called “guns in bars” bill) because a key opponent’s personal battle with the bottle has taken him out of the mix?
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Obama: wrong on Reagan
So says Don Williams:
In Reagan’s time, taxpayers had to spend hundreds of billions bailing out the deregulated savings and loan industry, thereby socializing the risks of doing business while privatizing the rewards. Since then scores of corporations have plundered the national treasury thanks to corporate tax rebates, privatization of government operations and more. Look at [...]
Read More..>>Early voting numbers - WOW
1686 people voted in Knox County yesterday.
Go democracy!
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Handicapping the Knox County primary
Metro Pulse breaks it down, with some interesting analysis and bold predictions:
It’s almost like a parliamentary election: Knox County voters will pick Commission candidates district by district, but the cumulative total will give one faction or the other control of the Knox County Commission. But the county’s legislative body won’t be taken over by Labor [...]
Big Orange baby takes London by storm
New mother and UT alum Vol Abroad took her baby son out and about in London recently. He was attired in infant sartorial splendor that included a bright orange UT-inspired outfit. Apparently, the Brits didn’t quite “get” the Vols theme.
Out for lunch today I overheard a father at the next table say to his toddler [...]
Read More..>>Eye on Brittney Gilbert
Today’s the day former Tennessee blogger Brittney Gilbert’s new project for KPIX in San Francisco is scheduled to go live. (It looks like this is where her new “Eye on Blogs” will be located.)
Brittney has a personal blog, but her claim to fame is having been the personality and workhorse behind Nashville is Talking, which [...]
State senators to tackle abortion issue today
A key debate is planned for Thursday:
All 99 members of the state House and half the Senate are up for re-election in November. Throw in an open seat for the presidency, and partisanship on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill is at a fever pitch.
The proposal would add language to the Tennessee Constitution saying that nothing in the [...]
WARNING: movie may cause vertigo
Apparently the shaky camera style in the movie “Cloverfield” is literally making some people sick.
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