The state legislature is facing a battle with Wal-Mart over dollars mandated by government to be spent on health insurance. Some 33 other st...

The mainstream world is about to encounter what readers around the Western world read and thought about the rise of the Ronald Reagan years,...

A two billion dollar federal typo about how long oxygen used in home should be paid by Medicare; the vice-president has to fly in to make th...

To prove they are the embodiment of integrity, members of Congress have bravely submitted to giving up receiving free trips from lobbyists u...

The open race for Congress here in East Tennessee has one candidate that isn't much like the usual choices - not that there has been muc...

States legislatures, like the one in South Dakota and now Tennessee, seem to place a high priority on going through the U.S. courts systems ...

Thought readers might like to make note of the changes to the Rocky Top Brigade site, which still works pretty much as before and has a nic...

Funny isn't it - no limos will glide up to a newly renovated Tennessee Theatre, no media will crowd the velvety ropes outlining a regal ...

According to a comment left by Britteny at Nashville is Talking , the proposed legislation to outlaw sex toys has been .... um .... "...

Have I missed some news reports where roving bands of sex toys sales teams are canvassing schoolyards in Tennessee attempting to lure undera...

Keeping up with the mega-millions and billions in aid for refugees displaced by Hurricane Katrina is like nailing down a spilled tractor-tra...

It's a big week for movie fans as the mutual admiration society known as the Oscars arrive on Sunday and yeah, I'll include some pre...

Like you, I'm sure you've encountered in the news and your communities some of the real horrors related to the rising human toll of ...

Kudos to the Associated Press for finding the video conference of federal officials talking about how bad Hurricane Katrina was going to be ...

I haven't seen much state press coverage of the testimony in the trial of Enron executives where cash reserves set aside for payments to...

It's been rumbling around the GOP in the state for a few weeks that they need a candidate to run for governor against Phil Bredesen, but...

I had a conversation over the weekend with a teacher who works in Kingsport, and after a few minutes he began to say in hushed tones that he...

Within the small confines of the Tennessee blogging world and within this country and many many others, a debate is being held on the topics...

The focus today is on the sadly obscure career of an actor whose work spans movies and television from the 1940s to 2006 and likely will con...

In yet another shameless attempt to appeal to people who surf the internets looking for pictures of cats, and I do mean big, fat, cat -- her...