Where are the lightning bugs this year?
That’s what Russell Biven wants to know.
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Are you a hypermiler? Do you know a hypermiler?
If so, WBIR reporter Robin Murdoch would like to talk to you for a story she’s doing. Give her a call at 637-1272.
Thanks!
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Let us read the news to you
Now you can listen to your news on the go at WBIR.com via a new service called Odiogo. If you are busy, or know someone with visual or reading impairments, this is a great option for keeping up with East Tennessee’s news, weather and info.
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WBIR is all a-Twitter
You can now subscribe to WBIR’s Twitter local news headline feed.
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For Emily
Please consider giving blood at a drive in Halls today for a special member of our WBIR family, seven-year-old Emily Barger, who is battling a recurrence of cancer.
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Bosch, Pinkston go head to head
Watch the 5-18-08 edition of WBIR’s Inside Tennessee. The topic is the final p-card audit, as well as Mayor Ragsdale’s proposed budget, and the conversation between panelist Don Bosch and Commissioner Paul Pinkston gets pretty lively.
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A most excellent new sports blog
A warm welcome to the Tennessee blogosphere to Steve Phillips, my friend, and WBIR’s Sports Director. Go check out Steve on Sports, and subscribe to his RSS feed.
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Our interview with James Carville
Watch Kay Watson’s chat with the Ragin’ Cajun during Carville’s Thursday visit to Knoxville. He talks about the presidential race, as well as the possibility one of the two three (thanks to Joe Lance for alerting me to my error) announced Democratic challengers might take Sen. Lamar Alexander’s seat.
(Yet another correction: my pal, the Kleinheider, [...]
Read More..>>How Knoxville porn protected your rights
Bill Williams did a fascinating OUR STORIES piece last night in which he looked back at how a police raid on a Knoxville bookstore launched a landmark civil rights challenge.
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You can buy a wig at J’s Mega Mart, but you can’t buy gas
Randy Neal noted this incongruity in Mayor Ragsdale’s spending records earlier today, and 10News reporter Robin Murdoch has followed up on this blogger’s lead.
And for a complete rundown of all the things you CAN buy at J’s Mega Mart, be sure to check out this highly detailed report from the KnoxBlab satirist who launched the [...]
Read More..>>Bigger and better
(Note from Katie: Yes, I know we launched the new site week before last, but in case some of you missed some of the wonderful new features we have, I thought I’d run this again. Let me know if you have any questions about using our social networking tools.)
It’s here!
After many months of listening to [...]
Don’t blame the media
Well, it looks like plans for a controversial GLBT/clothing optional resort in Roane County are dead, and the developer is saying “media explotation” played a part in killing the deal.
WBIR reporter Anthony Welsch, who covered the story, posts on his blog this morning that the developer may be looking for fault in the wrong place:
I [...]
Blogorama!
We have new bloggers joining us at WBIR.com every day. Check some of them out. You can subscribe to the ones you like via RSS feed.
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And even more bloggers
We have new folks signing up every day to use our groovy new WBIR.com blogging tools…
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The scene of the crime - now online
Brian Hornback called it a “crime scene,” but I call it the first-ever episiode of the weekly WBIR show Inside Tennessee available online. My fellow producer, Jake Jost and I -along with anchor John Becker -are very pleased to finally be making the show available on the Interwebs each week.
So here you go. This [...]
Julya’s blissful babymoon
WBIR meteorologist Julya Johnson is home after her midwife-assisted waterbirth at Knoxville’s Lisa Ross Birth and Women’s Center, and she’s feeling pretty blissed out:
So, I’m enjoying my “babymoon” — that’s the time after birth when you enjoy being a new family. It’s really wonderful!
David has been GREAT at being a big brother! He always [...]
Talk about it
Have you checked out the new WBIR Online Community?
Jump in and start a discussion or join one in progress. Tell your friends and neighbors.
(Yeah, this is a shameless plug for a project I am just getting launched, so help a blogger out here, won’t you? Link to the community on your site and join the [...]
Befriend me
Won’t you be my pal? Add me as a friend.
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A new member of the WBIR family
Big congrats to our meteorologist Julya Johnson, who got the natural waterbirth she wanted, and became mother to a beautiful baby girl over the weekend. You can read all about it, and see photos on Julya’s blog.
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So some folks didn’t love the helicopter…
Wow. Some folks were very unhappy with WBIR’s decision to use a helicopter as part of our SmartFIX 40 coverage.
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