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The Dixie Cop: 600 Miles of Yard Sales with my Six Year Old

Pam Bristow | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Driving, Alabama, Vintage Shopping, Kids, Tennessee, 127 Sale, Ohio, Yard Sales, Kentucky, Travel, Road Trip, Family Vacations, Antiques, Vacations, Living News
Pam Bristow

We realized that a simple drive across a simple place, rummaging through junk with someone you love is just as good (if not better) than a week at any of the five star resorts.

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To Vacation or Not, in Tennessee? That Is the Question (for the Coal Industry and the NRDC)

Dan Shapley | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Appalachia, Tourism, Mountaintop Removal, Vacations, Coal Mining, Tennessee, Green News
Dan Shapley

Nowhere has the debate between the advocates of tourism and strip-mining been as fever-pitched as in Tennessee. Please plan a vacation there!

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Defending Dolly from Big Coal Bullies

Rob Perks | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Dollyparton, Appalachia, Boycott, Tennessee, Dolly, Mountaintopremoval, Dollywood, Dirtycoal, Lamaralexander, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Green News
Rob Perks

This misguided boycott is akin to a neighbor refusing your dinner invitation unless you agree to let him burn down your house afterwards.

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The Uninsured Line Up For Care In Rural Virginia

Tom Sullivan | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wise County, Bbc, Stan Brock, Kentucky, Health Insurance, Cbs, Virginia, Cnn, Health, Health Care Reform, Tennessee, Ram, Health Care, Tim Kaine, Healthcare, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

The Wise County Remote Area Medical clinic is a county fair without the funnel cakes and cotton candy, but with the long lines and wait times you'd find at Disney World. First-come, first-served. Patients appreciate the help more than your average Medicare patient, someone said, because they have invested their time in it.

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Talk Radio Rules Blue Dog States

Sue Wilson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Arkansas, Michael Copps, Republican National Committee, Rush Limbaugh, Rnc, Lousiana, Indiana, Ohio, Susan Crawford, Georgia, Obama Health Care, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Utah, Blue Dog Seven, Fcc, Sean Hannity, Tennessee, 1996 Telecommunications Act, Blue Dog Democrats, Media News
Sue Wilson

22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.

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Jacob Shaffer Accused Of Killing Wife, 3 Of Her Relatives

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Tennessee, Jacob Shaffer Tennessee Murder, Jacob Shaffer Murder, Jacob Shaffer, Home News

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. — A southern Tennessee woman and her husband, who is accused of killing her and five other people in two states, had been ha...

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Texas and Tennessee Have Fun With Broadband Mapping Money

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Texas, Internet, Broadband, Tennessee, Stimulus Package, Media News
Art Brodsky

With up to $350 million in federal stimulus funds allocated for broadband mapping, an organization called Connected Nation is racking up the frequent flying miles in an effort to capture the lion's share of the money.

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Road Trip: Searching for Levels of BBQ Greatness

Mary Ann West | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Southern Barbeque Boys, Scott's, College Credit, Washington DC, Georgia, Jeff Vaughan, Will Foster, National BBQ Championship, Barack Obama, Alabama, Art Richey, Tennessee, South Carolina, Matt Lee, Sauce, North Carolina, Barbecue, Style News
Mary Ann West

With the 4-1-4 college calendar, most students envision an interim semester in Europe or other exotic locations. But in a free-falling economy, four arts students chose to chase the perfect BBQ.

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Reverse Outsourcing? Nissan To Make Electric Cars In U.S.

Reuters | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Nissan, Eco-Friendly Vehicles, Japanese Cars, Electric Cars, Green, Environment, Tennessee, Green Living, Japan, Green News

Nissan Motor Co plans to launch production of electric vehicles and their batteries in the United States to tap low-interest loans for green vehicles,...

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Coal Ash Sites Kept Secret, While Industry Works to Prevent Regulations

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coal, Tva, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Clean Coal, Tennessee, Green News
Bruce Nilles

If you lived near a dump site where the hazardous waste was so toxic it could increase your cancer risk to as high as a staggering 1 in 50, wouldn't you want to know about it?

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Bonnaroo Goes Green: Rocker Ben Sollee Bikes to Mega Festival

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Pop Music, Biking, Jazz, Yo Yo Ma, Ben Sollee, Al Green, Green, Tennessee, Bonnaroo, Music, Blues, Rock and Roll, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Recipient of the UK A Greener Festival award, Bonnaroo has always placed an emphasis on local and sustainable ways of making music.

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Lawmakers Squabble Over GM Plant Locations (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: GM Bailout, GM Bankruptcy, General Motors Bankruptcy, Tennessee, Lamar Alexander, GM Plants, Business News

With the General Motors bankruptcy just hours old, lawmakers are already jockeying for control over where GM plants will be located. Just yesterda...

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EPA Taking Over Cleanup of Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster

Rob Perks | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Tva, Energy, Dirty Coal, Epa Coal, Coal Industry, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Coal Spill, Coal, Green News
Rob Perks

This is yet another example of the Obama EPA taking responsible action to return the agency to its core mission -- that of protecting America's natural resources and safeguarding public health.

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Coal Ash Clean-Up: EPA To Oversee TVA Disaster Recovery

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Environment, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, TVA Disaster, Coal, Tva, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the cleanup of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee that brought natio...

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Will Detroit Budget Cuts Doom US in World EV Market?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Sonoma County, Audi R8, Lithium-Ion Battery, Automotive News, San Diego, Beijing, Oregon, Yokohama, Cars, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Detroit News, Clean Diesel, Audi Q7 TDI, General Motors, Ireland, Portugal, Douglas MacArthur, Keith Bradsher, Chery, Biofuels, Detroit Three, Ford, Starbucks Coffee, Tucson, Eamon Ryan, Renault Nissan Electric Cars, Japan, Chrysler, Israel, Tennessee, Mitsubishi -MiEV, NY Times, Yuasa Battery, Denmark, Monaco, Kanagawa, Auto Bailout, Detroit-Michigan, Business News
Steve Parker

The perfect financial storm decimating the US auto sector could result in the nation's largest manufacturing industry falling even farther behind overseas competitors when it comes to EVs.

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Music Stars on Mountaintop Removal: Keep the 'Country' in Country Music

Rob Perks | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Tennessee, Emmylouharris, Mountaintopremoval, Mtr, Big Kenny, Dirtycoal, Kathymattea, Cumberland, Mountaintopmining, Green News
Rob Perks

More that a million acres of Appalachia already have been flattened and over 1,000 miles of streams have been polluted or destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Lamar Alexander Walks the Walk for the Mountains and Communities of Appalachia

Sandra Diaz | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Walking, Flannel, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Tennessee, Green News
Sandra Diaz

There has been an exciting and unprecedented flurry of activity this week to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, with the White House, the EPA, an...

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MSU Wins SEC Tournament In Upset Over Tennessee

AP | FRED GOODALL | Posted 04.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Msu Beats Tennessee, Sports, Msu Wins Sec Tournament, Sec Tournament, March Madness, Tennessee, 2009 Ncaa Tournament, Sec, Msu, College Basketball, Home News

TAMPA, Fla. — When Mississippi State finished its surprising run through the Southeastern Conference tournament, Twany Beckham grabbed an SEC si...

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GOP Rep: Health Care Is A "Privilege"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Obama-Health-Care-Summit, Zach Wamp, Health Care, Tennessee, Politics News

President Obama held a health-care summit today at the White House where he made clear that reform was an administration priority. "If we want to crea...

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Arthur Delaney

One In Six Tennesseans Admits To Telling Unfunny Racist Jokes About The President

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racist Jokes, Tennessee Racism, Nashville Tennessee, Racist Obama, Tennessee, Barack Obama, Tennessee Racism Obama, Politics News

A new poll by Middle Tennessee State University finds that nearly one in six Tennesseans has told a joke about President Obama's race. But 57% of Tenn...

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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It's Not Just Chimps: Americans Have 7,000 Pet Tigers

Keith Thomson | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Tigers, Animal Rescue, Exotic Animals, Taxidermists, Chinese Medicine, Humane Society, Tiger Attack, Lions, Congress, Internet, Education, Alabama, Cats, Beijing, Hunting, Chimpanzee Attack, Tennessee, Detroit, Apes, Cougars, Wildlife, Green News
Keith Thomson

The Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition estimates that as many as 7,000 tigers are currently kept as pets in the United States--that's more tigers than currently inhabit all the wilds of Asia.

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A View to a Spill: Coal Ash Slideshow

Rob Perks | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Environment, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Spill, Coal, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News
Rob Perks

It's one thing for a group of scientists to suggest turning lemons into lemonade in the case of the TVA spill, but the folks living this nightmare don't seem to like the sour taste. Who can blame them?

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Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Fertility, Animals, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mountains, Trees, Mountaintop Removal, Grass, Tennessee, Topsoil, Kentucky, Coal Mining, TVA Spill, Toxic, Clean Coal, Carbon Emissions, Nrdc, Environmentalism, Winter, Tva, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Mining, Tennessee Coal Spill, Land, Environment, TVA Disaster, Valleys, Green News
Peter Lehner

We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.

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Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water

Dave Cooper | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Prenter, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal, Tva, Slurry, Rawl, Coal Waste, Rahall, TVA Spill, Poverty, US Poverty, Big Coal, West Virginia, Coal, TVA Coal, Unsafe Drinking Water, Video, Tennessee, Water, Environment, Kentucky, TVA Disaster, Green News
Dave Cooper

The coal industry doesn't want any regulation on coal waste, because it would hurt their corporate profits.

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