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Beth Arnold | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Brent Arnold, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Love, Brothers and Sisters, Death, Family, Tennessee, Interior Design, New York City, Living News

GROWING UP IN Arkansas, we relished our Thanksgiving turkeys. Mother roasted them until the skin was crispy brown, and even the white meat was juicy. ...

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While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To Charity

Blake Rutherford | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, National Association of Free Clinics, Health Care, Arkansas, Politics News

This weekend, thousands of Arkansans convened at the Statehouse Convention Center for a mass free health clinic, the first of its kind in Little Rock.

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Vince Young Proves Titans' Owner Bud Adams Right; Coach Jeff Fisher Wrong

Lisa Swan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Sports

Read More: Peyton Manning, Bud Adams, Football, Tennessee Titans, Nfl, Kerry Collins, Tennessee, Jeff Fisher, Vince Young, Sports News

if Fisher had gotten his way, Young would still be holding the clipboard on the sidelines, with Kerry Collins continuing to "lead" the Titans to an 0-9 record.

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Majestic 12 Movie Theater: Chattanooga's New Green Cinema

AP | BILL POOVEY | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Building, Sustainability, Green Business, Majestic 12 Movie Theater, Green Movie Theater, Chattanooga Tennessee, Tennessee, Green News

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — With plush lounge chairs, gourmet appetizers, a VIP auditorium and the latest digital and 3-D equipment, Chattanooga's newe...

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Okeedoked in Tennessee: How to Avoid Serious Discussion About Health Care Reform: Southern Style

Molly Secours | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, Health Care Reform, Jim Cooper, Tennessee, Health Care, Politics News

Dr. Stewart, an OB-GYN, recently lost a 40-year old uninsured cervical cancer patient who refused treatment so that her family wouldn't be financially ruined. She died last week.

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Friday is LA's EV day -- Nissan's Leaf Hits Dodger Stadium, Santa Monica

Steve Parker | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Nissan Leaf, Cars, Tokyo Motor Show, Santa Monica, Dodger Stadium, Tennessee, Carlos Ghosn, Business News

For its first public showings outside Japan, Nissan's all-new Leaf "pure EV" plug-in electric sedan will see the first light of an American day at a press event this Friday morning at Dodger Stadium.

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Rockslide In Tennessee Caught On Tape (VIDEO)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Rock Slide, Rockslide, Tennessee Rockslide Video, Rockslide Video, Tennessee, Green News

A news crew in Polk County, Tennessee caught this massive rockslide on video. The rockslide closed the highway for at last a week, CNN reports. WA...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Coal Plants Creating Landfills In Order To Clean The Air

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Landfills, Coal, Tva, Tennessee, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. — Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also...

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Meet the New Health Care Reform, Same as the Old Health Care Reform

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uninsured, Minnesota, Public Option, Tennessee, Washington, Health Care Reform, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon, Maine, Politics News

We will get the incremental health care reforms we were promised. Things will likely get better in the short term. Then, since we didn't contain costs, we'll need to enact real reform. Or, things will go right back to the status quo.

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Congress Gets in the Act on Coal Ash

Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Kingston, Epa, Congress, Tennessee, Coalspill, Coalash, Tennesseevalleyauthority, Dirty Coal, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Green News

Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants.

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Gun Show Loopholes Tracked By New York City; Dealers Allowed Purchase To Undercover Gun Buyers Who Admitted Spotty Records

The Associated Press | Sara Kugler | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Nyc, Mayor Bloomber, Background Checks, Sting, Gun Show, New York City, Gun Show Loophole, Nevada, Undercover, Ohio, Bloomberg, Tennessee, Semiautomatic Weapons, Fbi, Occasional Sellers, Atf, New York News

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York City officials secretly videotaped dozens of firearm purchases they say were illegal at gun shows in states that have not clo...

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Sources: Family Tried To Sell Snatched Tennessee Baby

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL and TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Immigration Officer, Tammy Renee Silas, Nashville Tennessee, Nashville, Baby Yair, Fake Immigration Officer, Tennessee, Crime, Maria Gurrolla, Tammy Silas, Yair Anthony Carillo, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee newborn kidnapped in a knife attack on his mother was placed in foster care with his three siblings after allegat...

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Kidnapped Baby Found: State Reunites Mother And Child, Then Takes Custody Of Kids

The Associated Press | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Tammy Renee Silas, Kidnapped Baby Found, Nashville, Crime, Alabama, Tennessee, Fake Immigration Officer, Immigration, Maria Gurrolla, Yair Anthony Carillo, Ice, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)- A mother whose newborn was kidnapped by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was briefly reunited with her bab...

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Baby Missing After Mother Is Stabbed By Fake Immigration Officer In Nashville, Tennessee

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: It's a Boy, Nashville, Baby Missing, Baby Yair, Crime, Tennessee, Fake Immigration Officer, Mother Stabbed, Maria Gurrolla, Sign, Yair Anthony Carillo, Kidnapping, Fake Agent, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said she suffered in a st...

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DonorsChoose.org Targets High-Poverty Classrooms

Posted 11.25.2009 | Impact

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Donors Choose, Bill Gates, Military Families, Bloggers, Tennessee, Impact News

Online hub DonorsChoose.org filters your donations to American schools in need. The "choose" part means you get to select which school or program your...

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Atlanta Flooding: 3 Killed, 5 Missing As Storms Drench Southeast

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home

ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...

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Discussing Gun Violence Prevention in Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee

Paul Helmke | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Indiana, Tennessee, Concealed Carry, Ohio, Nancy Pelosi, Town Hall Meetings, Nra, Barack Obama, Guns, Illegal Guns, Politics News

My experiences speaking around the country about gun violence have been the exact opposite of the contentious "town hall" protests we've seen on television over the summer.

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EPA Halts Mountaintop Removal Projects

Yahoo! News | Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: West Viginia, Mountaintop Removal, Tennessee, Mining, Ohio, Epa Mountaintop Removal, Epa, Environment, Kentucky, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Oh...

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Barry Stokes, Convicted Ponzi Schemer, Made Voodoo Dolls Of His Victims In Prison

The Tennessean | Naomi Synder | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, $19 Million, Barry Stokes, Voodoo-Dolls, Tennessee, Business News

Financial adviser Barry R. Stokes, who has pleaded guilty to stealing $19 million from victims' retirement plans, spent part of his time in jail makin...

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The Old Packard Plant: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Studebaker-Packard, New Jersey, Gilbert Smith, Avanti, Automobile Industry, Alabama, Tennessee, Purple Gang, Tommy Bridges, The South, Packard Motor Company, African Americans, Detroit, UAW., Living News

While the old Packard is an image of urban decay, it has nothing to do with the demise of the auto industry as we know it today.

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Environmental, Racial Clash In Alabama Over Tennessee Coal Ash

nytimes.com | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Coal Ash, Alabama, Tennessee, Epa, Green News

Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting pl...

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Mountaintop Removal: FAIL

Rob Perks | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Kentucky, Westvirginia, Reclamation, Tennessee, Dirty Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

It remains nearly impossible to functionally replace a mountain whose ecological niche was 400 million years in the making.

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Dollywood Boycott Falls Flat

Dave Cooper | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Dolly Parton, Tennessee, Dollywood, Mountaintop Removal, Boycott, Miners, Coal, West Virginia, Green News

Raised in the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee, Dolly Parton is the public face of Smoky Mountain tourism. So why on earth would anyone want to boycott Dollywood?

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Tennessee Group Invites Pro-Coal Fisherman to TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Bass, Clean Coal, West Virginia, Jeremy Starks, Coal Ash, Harriman, Tennessee, Tva, Kingston, Green News

The TVA disaster -- over 100 times larger than the 12-million gallon Exxon Valdez spill -- is considered by environmentalists to be the world's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl.

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