32nd House District: Hurley on the attack; Calfee seeks to restore 'dignity'...
NASHVILLE — Something of an incumbent-challenger role reversal seems afoot this summer in the parts of Loudon and Roane counties where Republican voters will decide whether they want Julia Hurley or...
View ArticleIna Hughs: Gore Vidal challenged U.S. system
"The world just became a duller place." That is the postscript a Doubleday editor gave to news of the death of his most famous client, Gore Vidal, who died this past week at 86.
View ArticleTennessee politicians take national spotlight
Lamar Alexander and Al Gore have political views that on most issues are as far apart as Memphis and Bristol. What a coincidence that both should find themselves in the national spotlight in the same...
View ArticleTimeline for 2000-12
n April 20, 2000: Knoxville Smokies baseball team plays its opening game at a new Sevierville stadium
View Article2000-12: A new millennium
The meeting still carries a stink to this day. Knox County commissioners zipped through appointments to fill a dozen county offices in just under 3? hours. The main delays came during the occasional...
View ArticlePam Strickland: State Democrats have poor choices for chairman
There is no one single thing that can be said to demonstrate how poorly the Tennessee Democratic Party has performed in recent years. So many points are disappointing, sad or just plain embarrassing.
View ArticleWhat's new on the bookshelf from and about East Tennesseans
For local authors in East Tennessee, reading and writing have added up to a good number of recently published books. Here, in no particular order, is a sampling. More will be featured next Sunday.
View ArticleIn new book Al Gore warns of more precarious cliffs
"The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change" by former Vice President and Tennessee native Al Gore condemns the corrupting influence of moneyed elites and warns of the destructive power of "emergent...
View ArticleClinton High dedicates net-zero classroom
CLINTON — Several years ago, Clinton High School teacher Riley Sain used a small grant the school received to make what he called a “shack” — a small stand-alone classroom built from wood donated by a...
View ArticleGreg Johnson: Environmentalists' agriculture policies hurting world's poor
There are moral superiors among us whose anti-scientific ideological positions are so entrenched they continue to callously push long-discredited theories that do significant harm to vast numbers of...
View ArticleLetter: Better politicians than good old boys
Corker, Alexander, Frist, Gore and Brock are indictments of voting system.
View ArticleLetter: Disagreement isn't racism
Thomas Sowell, a black American, is also opposed to Obama's policies. Is he therefore a racist as well?
View ArticleLetter: Cold proves global warming a farce
The current near-record low here in our beloved Knoxville is further proof of the global warming farce.
View ArticleAl Gore among Southland Conference speakers
An impressive list of speakers are scheduled for Launch Tennessee’s 2014 Southland Conference, an event celebrating entrepreneurship and Southern culture.
View ArticleDavid Moon: Financial risk isn't alway what it seems
One of the most talked about and least understood topics in finance is risk. To paraphrase Mark Twain’s observation about the weather, everyone talks about risk, but, with the exception of Al Gore, no...
View ArticleCharlie Brock: Final call for Southland conference applications
One of the best opportunities for startup companies in the country, not to mention the Southeast, is fast approaching.
View ArticlePutin says the Internet is a ‘CIA Project’
Russian President Vladimir Putin just offered up his own left-field theory about how the Internet works. Only this time, the punch line might not be as funny. The Moscow Times reports during a media...
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