frank cagle suspects the lobbyists will keep the legislature running more or less as it has been despite the change in leadership
but seriously folksi suspect it may be business as usual come the next session. the lobbyists do represent the interest groups that traditionally pass and kill legislation they fund political campaigns and provide the staff work for parttime legislators. re...... [Show More]
well said Post Source: billhobbs.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 18:32:25
frank cagle the democrats have already started crying to the press about mumpower and his new regime being partisan. this should only provoke hilarity as it comes from the jackbooted thugs who have run the house for the last two decades....... [Show More]
now they must govern Post Source: feedproxy.google.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 18:23:51
frank cagle points out how difficult the transition of power between a speaker jimmy naifeh and a speaker jason mumpower will really be
the democrats have already started crying to the press about mumpower and his new regime being partisan. this should only provoke hilarity as it comes from the jackbooted thugs who have run the house for the last two decades. turnabout being fair play should a.... [Show More]
i was looking at this metro pulse article about a house on sevier ave. that the city wants to take by eminent domain to build a roundabout for access to new condos on the river. i thought that house looks familiar. sure enough its the house i grew up in.
my parents bought it around 1956 when i was a little over one year old after renting for a while up the street on sevier ave. i th...... [Show More]
not the first time Post Source: feedproxy.google.com Posted: Nov 20 2008 01:53:07
jack neely schools us on a bit of history
however i was wrong about one thing the 2000 election wasnt the first time that tennessee voters went against a tennessean who was a majorparty nominee. or the last time tennessee voted against one who won the national popular vote. it actually happened in 1844 when tennesseans preferred kentuckian henry clay the whig over our own james k. po...... [Show More]
...o be just about my favorite sport. so i am delighted by the prospect that more topflight tennis is coming to knoxville over the next few weeks than during any short span in the citys history.
fonte metropulse .com...... [Show More]
click the dot after each quote to visit the original source. its like really relationshipy ...... [Show More]
voter fraud fraud Post Source: feedproxy.google.com Posted: Nov 07 2008 13:58:22
rikki hall in metro pulse
getting real people to vote is a serious challenge and it is even harder to get imaginary voters to the polls.
rikki has a great analysis of socalled voter fraud along with some interesting statistics about the impact of voter registration drives.
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dead for a generation Post Source: feedproxy.google.com Posted: Nov 05 2008 23:53:55
frank cagle explains why despite economic hardship phil bredesen will be unlikely to champion an income tax
bredesen for all his success is not really popular with the legislators. he doesnt have buddies. he has done little to woo them. if mcwherter realized he couldnt get it done even though members loved their former speaker surely bredesen knows he could not sway them.
i think...... [Show More]
these goodies were found in knoxvilles metropulse aand were originallyawritten by chuck shepherd awith some sarcasm and commentary by yours truly here and there.
although i claim to be a kleptomaniac pens lighters staplers 8230 plagiarism isnt my forte.a
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driveby fireworking
a 30yearold man appears to be the most recent person to attempt to throw bu...... [Show More]
art by matt dorfman
you know i love dolly . and dolly parton is everywhere right now. yesterday npr posted a great article about dolly partons song jolene detailing the origin and history of the song.
parton says that she got the story for her song from another redhead in her life at the time a bank teller who was giving partons new husband a little more interest than ...... [Show More]
arrowmonts director david willard is quoted in a metro pulse article about the situation facing the school. in any sort of ongoing negotiations someone in his position always has to be circumspect in what he says in public but i dont see a great deal of vision displayed in his remarks. here are a series of quotes from the article and my thoughts on them.
arrowmonts lease...... [Show More]
amen Post Source: lastcar.blogspot.com Posted: Sep 04 2008 15:03:00
frank cagle has a pretty good wrap up on how the palin addition and the obama flop in tennessee could help republicans pick up the state house. from the article... if palin energizes conservatives and rural democrats stay home or vote for mccain it has to be good for republican legislative candidates. there are also some conservative areas losing longtime democratic representatives due to re.... [Show More]
thats the question bill pittman is asking in regards to the volunteer ministry center vmc minvilla project on broadway
last thursday ginny weatherstone vmc executive director graciously gave a few folks a tour of the minvilla structure. besides myself and ginny other attendees included architect dan schuh city employee robert finley ten year plan leader jon law...... [Show More]
one of her newborn twins has been christened knox.
ive always thought and jack neely recently told me the same thing that knox would be a cool name for a ktown baby. now following in brangelinas babynaming footsteps there will certainly be a slew of new baby knoxes knoxi all over the globe.
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you read that right apparently a corporate pac led by an influential republican donor from tennessee has been sending big checks the way of minnesotas senior senator in his bid for reelection. according to the report pilot corp. which owns a series of gas stations across the country but apparently just one in minnesota donated 17000 to colemans reelection bi...... [Show More]
just about everyone has been touched by the tragedy of suicide in one way or another. in fact my niece is good friends with the young daughter of one of the suicide victims for whom this important new local project is named.
so follow the link go learn more about the damon and stella foundation and find out what you can do to help.
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frank cagle ponders what a race between tim hutchison and tim burchett would look like
hutchison has been a formidable candidate for almost two decades and without term limits he may have been able to remain in the sheriffs office indefinite lythoug h his victory margins have dwindled in recent years. can he translate his political clout from the sheriffs office to a run for mayor d...... [Show More]
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by law you cant use that many independent contractors on your site he says. somebody has to be an employee.
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which is to say after this roundup nothing until monday.
tuesday was canada day the anniversary of the birth of my native country and the globe and mails james adams gets some new canon lists from distinguished literary types . i am pleased as punch to see elizabeth smarts stupendous prose poem by grand central station i sat down and wept included on several of th...... [Show More]
on my way home from work this evening i battled the everpresent rushhour that occurs between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on interstates 40 and 75 that intersect inknoxville.
its an unavoidable fact of life for most in knoxville and other bigger cities. therefore ive decided that for the rest of you and me driving in rushhour traffic wherever you may be i will put together...... [Show More]
have you ever had one of those days you know the ones that you wonder what could possibly happen next hoping all the while that things wouldnt couldnt get any worse
today started off innocent enough. i drove from wartburg to knoxville this morning battling traffic or slow beatup trucks doing 50 in a 55 rather for a math final. typical for morgan county. might i add t...... [Show More]
cupcakes galore Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Jun 18 2008 12:00:42
if you are paying attention you have noticed cupcakes everywhere now a days. so rose kennedys article about knoxvilles cupcake trend caught my attention in last weeksa the metro pulse . my roommate is an avid baker and true cupcakelover she has been raving about williamssonoma cupcakes since christmas. i decided to get in on the trend and visited the newly...... [Show More]
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