Tue
Dec 12 2023
03:32 pm
By: Mark Harmon
If you can get beyond the paywall, this guest column is exceptionally good.
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Discussing:
- Trump: U.S. takeover of Gaza Strip, "Riviera of the Middle East" (2 replies)
- U.S. Treasury Dept. data breach? (1 reply)
- Let them eat cake... (2 replies)
- How an arcane Treasury Department office became ground zero in the war over federal spending (6 replies)
- TN Voucher bill contracts with Arkansas reject (1 reply)
- Are Meta/Zuckerberg paying a bribe? (3 replies)
- Plane crash in the Potomac (3 replies)
- Maryville Jan. 6 felon, pardoned, faces sentencing for conspiracy to murder federal employees conviction (3 replies)
- Google Maps will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America (2 replies)
- Bridgestone closes a tire plant in Tennessee with 700 layoffs and other reductions (2 replies)
- If illegal immigrants are freeloaders.... (1 reply)
- Tim, Tim, Tim...Sigh... (1 reply)
TN Progressive
- It's Time to Call For the Arrest of Elon Musk! (RoaneViews)
- Books (RoaneViews)
- Tennessee Legislature...Theme Park or Rocky Horror? (RoaneViews)
- Sunday Sermon (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- Lee's Fried Chicken in Alcoa closed (BlountViews)
- Alcoa, Hall Rd. Corridor Study meeting, July 30, 2024 (BlountViews)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
- Chef steals food to serve at restaurant? (BlountViews)
- Blount County, TDOT make road deal for gun mfg ignoring town of Louisville,TN, (BlountViews)
- Winter at the Big Rocks (Whitescreek Journal)
TN Politics
- U.S. Department of Justice backs out of Tennessee transgender care case (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee speaker’s bill would defund local governments for violating state law (TN Lookout)
- Stockard on the Stump: Old hands, not dark money, push vouchers to passage (TN Lookout)
- U.S. Senate confirms Russ Vought, a Project 2025 author, to manage the nation’s budget (TN Lookout)
- Seattle judge is second to indefinitely block Trump’s birthright citizenship order (TN Lookout)
- “A horrible idea”; under a new law, older teens charged with murder will be tried as adults (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Breaking: Knox schools to close Monday-Tuesday (Knox TN Today)
- Lady Vols upset No. 5 UConn for signature win (Knox TN Today)
- Tennyson, RSV and horses (Knox TN Today)
- ‘How Baking Soda Helped Save Our Birds’ (Knox TN Today)
- Elite Chance Frye: Special match, special cousin, special community (Knox TN Today)
- Authentic Mexican fare at Mariscos Pacifico Nayarit (Knox TN Today)
- Knox the Fox shares James Beard Award semifinalists (Knox TN Today)
- Service highlight: Paws to Visit (Knox TN Today)
- Zakai Zeigler to visit Food City Deane Hill (Knox TN Today)
- Fast-Charging program moving ahead in Tennessee (Knox TN Today)
- Badger goes cold to find his waterfall (Knox TN Today)
- Sphere weather (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- NWS ranks fatal Morgan County tornado as EF-2 preliminarily (WBIR)
- Man pleads guilty to murder in decade old Knoxville missing persons case (WATE)
- Megan Boswell Trial Day 3 | Defense questions evidence after prosecution shows edited text exchange (WBIR)
- Knox County Schools Board of Education approves new K-8 school (WATE)
- EF-2 tornado confirmed in Morgan County by National Weather Service (WATE)
- National Weather Service confirms tornado touched down Grainger County (WATE)
- Here are the 14 Big Lots stores staying open in Tennessee (WBIR)
- PHOTOS: Severe storms cause damage in East Tennessee (WATE)
- Heart of the Matter: Blount County Sheriff James Berrong (WBIR)
- Mother, daughter dead, others injured after tornado in Morgan County (WATE)
- KCS naming facilities committee to consider naming Gibbs High School baseball field after Morgan Wallen (WBIR)
- Sevierville releases statement after 'comments, emails and phone calls' targeting city staff over RV dealer's overly-tall flagpole (WBIR)
News Sentinel
State News
- Bill would ban most popular hemp products in Tennessee - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Dear Abby: Man’s delusions put brother in a difficult spot - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- James Willis Adams Obituary - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- First-quarter struggles doom UTC women vs. UNC Greensboro - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Musk Says He’ll Rehire DOGE’s Marko Elez After Racist Posts: Here’s What To Know About Agency - Forbes (US News)
- Searchers in Alaska scour frozen tundra and icy seas for missing plane with 10 aboard - The Associated Press (US News)
- Federal election commissioner says Trump is trying to improperly remove her - NPR (US News)
- U.S. Steel Stock Is Dropping. Trump Is Altering the Deal With Nippon. - Barron's (Business)
- Trump tells Ishiba at the White House that he wants to slash the US trade deficit with Japan - The Associated Press (US News)
- Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program - The Guardian US (Business)
- Gold poised for sixth week of gains on safe-haven demand - Reuters (Business)
- Trump delays tariffs on small packages from China - BBC.com (Business)
- Trump says he will announce reciprocal tariffs on many countries next week - Reuters (US News)
- Trump administration agrees not to publicly identify FBI agents on Jan. 6 cases without advance warning - POLITICO (US News)
- Stock Market Mixed Amid Trump Tariff Fears: Weekly Review - Investor's Business Daily (Business)
- How Many Federal Worker Resignations Would Be a Lot? - The New York Times (US News)
- Not 1. Not 2. Not 3. Not 4. 5 winter storms could deliver more snow than the last two winters combined - CNN (US News)
- White House calls mixed jobs numbers 'weak,' blames Biden - CNBC (Business)
- Consumer inflation fears spike in February as tariff worries hit sentiment - CNBC (Business)
Local Media
Lost Medicaid Funding
To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
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