They Keep Embarrasing Us
Citizens of the great State of Tennessee continue to be embarrassed by the unfair attacks on Democratic President Barack Obama. When will the Tennessee Republican Democratic Party lay off of this poor guy? He’s only trying to give us change. Politicians eating their own isn’t any kind of change.
My Job is So Small Town–Provides Little Opportunity
Nick Gillespie on Obama, Tennessee, and small towns: Hart predicts that small-town-dwellers all over this land will reject Obama. Whole thing there. Note: From 2000 to 2006, Tennessee’s population growth was slower than the U.S. average, so folks are volunteering, but not at a breakneck pace. We don’t do anything at breakneck pace, except for [...]
East Tennessee High Schools Among Best In Country!
From the KNS: Three East Tennessee schools are among the top 1,300 U.S. public high schools, according to a 2008 ranking released this week by Newsweek. Oak Ridge High School in Anderson County is ranked 892, Farragut and West high schools in Knox County are ranked 1,031 and 1,042 respectively, according to the listing. 3 [...]
Michelle Obama and Tennessee Republicans
Was it a low blow? Well she did make her statements while campaigning for Barack. To me that makes anything she said fair game. If the tables were turned and she’d made a stirring, tear jerking statement about how great this country is, you’d better believe the Dems would be using that sound bite to [...]
Smoking Still Legal Near Hospitals
From the KNS: Burchett and the House sponsor, Rep. Johnny Shaw, D-Bolivar, said the measure would help protect the health of hospital patients, their families and medical staff. That’s funny, because every time I drive by a hospital I’m utterly amazed at the number of supposedly educated health care professionals who are standing outside puffing [...]
Big Oops for Former Electrical Engineering Professor
J. Reece Roth was allegedly involved in providing sensitive data to the Chinese. I had professor Roth for a class. Here’s how remarkable the guy was–I’m not 100% sure what class it was. Plasma engineering maybe? All I remember about him is that he was slightly on the tubby side, the suits he wore included [...]
A Great Place to Work?
As a former employee, I was interested in the article the KNS ran today about Denso Manufacturing Tennessee’s expansion. It was about what I would expect from a local paper writing about a local company expanding–lots of talk about new jobs, complimentary remarks about the people of the region, and a few standard corporate-type comments [...]
And One More Thing…
I have just one last thing to say about the axing of Volunteer Voters. If you own a big chunk of any media market (television, print, web) and it isn’t profitable, you have a management problem. The solution to your problem isn’t to let go of the reigns and crash the cart. The solution to [...]
On The Demise of Volunteer Voters
I continue to be amazed by big media’s short sighted decisions. This week, Nashville’s WKRN pulled the plug on one of the blogosphere’s dishes I devour daily–Volunteer Voters. This decision was apparently part of budget cuts, which I assume means that the dollars spent on VV were greater than the dollars it generated. What does [...]
A Great Story Opportunity
A while back, I wrote a post about a few advantages newspapers have in the market and how they could use them to remain relevant. Using these assets–excellent writing, investigative journalism, and local marketplace branding–newspapers can give us something no one else can. Today in the KNS, at least on their web site, there is [...]
