A higher Summitt
Via Randy Neal:
The [78-52 win over Perdue] not only sent top-seeded Tennessee to its annual regional semifinal appearance, but also made Summitt the first coach in Division I basketball history — men’s or women’s — to record 100 wins in the tournament.
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Knoxville Talks traffic
Wow. We’ve had a great first few months. Since launching my little project with scant fanfare during Christmas week (’07), we’ve racked up 72,797 page views.
I’m pretty happy with that.
Soon, you’ll start seeing more promotion for Knoxville Talks at WBIR.com and on the air at WBIR-TV. Lots of good stuff coming down the pike for [...]
Heron vs. Eel
Check out this amazing series of photos taken in Florida this week by Knoxville blogger Randy neal, who is vacationing there. He caught a heron and an eel locked in mortal combat.
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“Jamie Woodson’s no Jimmy Kyle Davis”
That’s Betty Bean’s comment in response to political buzz (via Randy Neal) suggesting Knox County Attorney General Randy Nichols (Democrat) might challenge State Sen. Jamie Woodson (Republican).
Bean opines:
Woodson is a juggernaut and would mortally whip his butt. Nichols got appointed AG and was appointed to the bench before that. He’s never had a [...]
Read More..>>Bloggers respond to WKRN’s decision to pull the rug out from under Volunteer Voters
As I noted last night, WKRN in Nashville has apparently decided to let the best political blogger in Tennessee go for budgetary reasons. Now, the state’s bloggers are responding.
Jack Lail
It was very sad to hear of layoff of A.C. Kleinheider, the writer of VolunteerVoters, today by Nashville TV station WKRN.
The media business is a tough [...]
More on Knoxville as a “Third World Emergency Room”
Terry Morrow reports that the recent 60 Minutes feature on Knoxville-based Remote Area Medical has led to a sizable boost in their coffers.
But Randy Neal says it’s shameful that 60 Minutes had to do this story at all:
This is a national disgrace. Dr. Kim describes the scene at the RAM event as a “Third World [...]
Read More..>>Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday?
Randy Neal talks about the precarious fortunes of one of East Tennessee’s best-known businesses:
It’s always sad when a good company goes public and has to focus on “reposition investments and expenditures” and “reduce debt levels” using “excess cash flow” and “strengthen their financial position” adn a strategy of “returning excess capitol to shareholders” instead of [...]
Read More..>>A national disgrace played out at the Jacobs Building
Randy Neal blogs about last night’s 60 Minutes piece on Remote Area Medical and the work they do around the world, including right here in East Tennessee:
This is a national disgrace. Dr. Kim describes the scene at the RAM event as a “Third World emergency room.” In Knoxville, Tennessee. In the United States of America. [...]
Read More..>>Too. Many. Debates.
Barack Obama thinks so. And so does Randy Neal.
They are starting to sound like broken records and it’s making them both look ineffectual.
And they frequently echo each other almost word for word.
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Knox County Commission still isn’t completely getting the whole open government thing…
Randy Neal notes that the Commission web site still lacks any info on the current appointment process:
It’s great that they adopted a more open process and conducted a series of public forums for the replacement appointments (prompted by the “sunshine” lawsuit, I’m sure). But there’s no announcement of the date, time, or place of the [...]
Hillary Clinton: damned if she is, damned if she isn’t
When I see stuff like this, it makes me realize that Hillary Clinton (and perhaps any woman in politics) is damned if she is “too feminine,” but also damned if she “isn’t woman enough.”
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Parsing the TN GOP
At Tenn Views, Randy Neal is taking the state’s GOP on, point by point:
Every week the Tennessee Republican Party puts out a work of creative fiction to “inform” the party faithful on all the great things the GOP is doing for them. This week’s edition talks about the Presidential primaries, noting differences between the parties [...]
Randy Neal’s bold prediction
He says the Democratic race will still be in play after Super Tuesday.
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Diane Jordan, closet Republican
Randy Neal opines:
According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Diane Jordan voted in the Republican primary, allegedly to help out JJ Jones who is running for Sheriff. Except, he’s running unopposed in the primary, so how does that help?
The article also says she helped 5 other people vote in the Republican primary because they were [...]
Lumpy Lambert calls Mark Harmon names during Commission meeting
I am catching up this morning on what happened at last night’s commission meeting, and this caught my eye:
When the discussion turned to the issue of county employees serving on County Commission, Commissioner Mark Harmon proposed letting the people decide or failing that a common sense approach regarding commissioners voting on their own salaries and [...]
Liberal fascism on Comedy Central
Local bloggers Dr. Helen and Glenn Reynolds interviewed Jonah Goldberg about his new book a week or two ago, and now Randy Neal points to Jon Stewart’s take on the controversial author.
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Robert Plant may be headed to Tennessee
Randy Neal points to an article out of the UK saying that Led Zeppelin will headline Bonnaroo this year.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true since I know of several AC Entertainment peeps - both employees and close associates - who flew to London recently for the big Led Zeppelin show.
Having grown up in [...]
Local blogosphere rings in 2008!
Today, East Tennessee bloggers are talking about saying goodbye to 2007 and ringing in 2008:
From Rich Hailey:
New Beginnings
Somewhere during the last 5+ years of doing this, I started to think it was important. I began to take it very seriously, working hard to research posts, trying to build solid arguments to make a strong case [...]
TennViews counts ‘em down for you
Check out this nice round-up of some of the more interesting new state laws going into effect on January 1, including:
Stricter regulation of “refund anticipation loans” offered by tax return preparers. The new law requires, among other things, full disclosure of fees and interest rates, allows borrowers to rescind loans within 24 hours, and prohibits [...]
HUD reviews Knox County
Randy Neal has the scoop:
A HUD review of Knox County Community Development Block Grant and other programs requested by Mayor Mike Ragsdale in August has been completed and a report of HUD’s findings has been submitted to the mayor’s office.
The report “commends the county for employing a knowledgeable staff and for a commitment to carrying [...]
