Print 1 Comment Email to a Friend Print Article Comments Chattanooga City Council members will consider a resolution asking the Tennessee General Assembly to extend the effective date of a new law requiring voters to present picture identification at the ballot box. “This is one step closer to the poll tax and to the old [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 11–> LASCASSAS — Fox News Political Analyst Dick Morris will be the keynote speaker at Republican state Rep. Joe Carr’s annual T-Bones Politics fundraiser on Sept. 24, Carr announced Tuesday. “We will conduct the state’s first certified presidential straw poll for the Republican primary,” said Carr, who resides on a farm in [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 11–> MURFREESBORO — The Rutherford County Commission Redistricting Committee unanimously recommended a map that retains 21 commission districts Wednesday instead of reducing the number to 14 as Commissioner Robert Stevens proposed. “Our country was based on democracy,” said committee member Johnny Taylor, who is a Democratic member of the Rutherford County Election [...]
Redistricting is one of the ugliest processes in our democracy. Last month, a leaked map scowled from the back room where Republicans are cooking up new voting districts. It divvied Nashville into thirds, breaking up U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper’s Democratic base and also appeared to favor the Congressional ambitions of state Sen. Bill Ketron (R [...]
….might be a catchy little title to a soap opera, like the one on the GOP debate on CNN last night. Rick Perry, who initially looked pretty good a few months ago with his job creation numbers, is finding out that you have to account for EVERYTHING you’ve done, and he got hammered pretty good [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 13–> Also, the law currently allows for voters without the proper ID to get a free photo ID from the Tennessee Department of Safety. If a voter doesn’t bring a photo ID to the polling precinct, and is not exempt, the person still will be able to vote. The person can vote [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 9–> MURFREESBORO — Rutherford County Democratic Party leaders said Sunday they will hold a primary to select candidates in 2012 and criticized the use of caucuses to pick political candidates. At its quarterly meeting Saturday, the party and executive committee members voted unanimously to use a primary rather than caucuses to determine whose [...]
No, Osama bin Laden didn’t win. But the SOB inflicted wounds on this country — and to all of us. And they aren’t healed yet. Scarred over, perhaps, but still causing pains large and small. You will sense that today while you read The Commercial Appeal’s expanded coverage on the impact of 9/11 now 10 [...]
It’s impossible for them to forget where they were on Sept. 11, 2001. One had just an hour earlier kissed her husband goodbye as he boarded an American Airlines flight bound for New York. Another found her eighth-grade Latin teacher standing horrified in front of a television when class was supposed to start. A young [...]
WASHINGTON – While religious leaders are urging Christians to love their Muslim neighbors as the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks draw near, Florida Congressman Allen West (R) and the Christian Action Network reminded the public that there is still continued opposition to the New York City Islamic center being built near ground zero. [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 8–> MURFREESBORO — Contrary to a related legal settlement, former Republican congressional candidate Lou Ann Zelenik is still waging a court battle with U.S. Rep. Diane Black over a campaign ad that aired 2010 during their 2010 primary race. “Some in the news media have been erroneously reporting that a settlement has [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 11–> Corker spent $266,473 between January and June, leaving him with $5.3 million, more than all but four other senators. Two Republicans have signed up to challenge the senator in next year’s primary. James Patrick Durkan has raised $7,670, mostly his own money. The other candidate, Zachary Scott Poskevich, has contributed $5,000 [...]
9/11: A DECADE LATER FRANKLIN — Daris Long, the man whose son was killed by Abdulhakim Muhammad, an Islamic extremist raised in Memphis as Carlos Bledsoe before legally changing his name, will join Muhammad’s father at a Cool Springs hotel as part of a service marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The event on Sunday [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 16–> As well as a refreshing spirit. After everything he has endured during this past year, Spurlock is enjoying every moment like it could be his last. The practices. The relationships. And certainly the games. “He’s been super every day,” FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said. “You see a smile on his face [...]
WASHINGTON – Giving Muslims and Sikhs their voice back, a new website has been launched to document hate crimes, physical threats and profiling against their minorities in post 9/11 America. “We were all affected by 9/11, but the mainstream media has not always covered our stories,” Sapreet Kaur, executive director of The Sikh Coalition, one [...]
