In January of this year, I ran a post about conflicting reports on working conditions in Chinese factories where Apple (and many other ma...

The news for Americans isn't looking too good in a place where freedom and rights were first celebrated. "Pennsylvania, where...

What did Roane County have to do to land 45 jobs for a VW warehouse? Simple: remove property taxes on the now-for-free location, throw i...

This is the Third and final part of an experiment I made to live and work offline and write about my results via a sort of non LiveBlog.  ...

Resisting court orders is never a risky idea for government, and at the end of February, the city of Morristown had over $570,000 seized ...

Rush Limbaugh has been selling and slinging horseshit for decades, called it 'reasonable thinking', 'entertainment' and ...

I decided to do an experiment and shut off the internet for a while, eventually going 12 days with no email, texting, no connection wit...

Tennessee Republicans make it clear in the current presidential primary race with their support for Sen. Rick Santorum - they want Tennes...

I decided to do an experiment and shut off the internet for a while, eventually going 12 days with no email, texting, no connection with ...

Celebrations - but no ticker tape parades this time - are marking the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's flight into space as he became t...

All the romance offered by a sewage treatment plant can be yours! "Brooklyn, New York’s Newtown Creek sewage plant will be the ce...

I try not to be too surprised/disappointed by the ridiculous rants which pop up in American politics - history shows us absurdity often hol...

The state legislature is swiftly acting to pass a new law aimed at removing, fining and jailing the Occupy Nashville protesters . Legisl...

Each year thousands of new bills get submitted to the state and federal legislatures, with little to slow their apparently infinite growt...

If the voters in Knoxville are paying attention, maybe the upcoming libel trial against state senator Stacey Campfield will be Reason 10,354...

I look forward to the day when news about politics in Tennessee is not simply easy material  for comedy shows. But that day is not today. ...

Morristown's city council has been stalled since last summer trying to appoint a new person the the board of the Morristown Utility Com...

" pic via the Knox News Sentinel report The owner of the Bistro By The Bijou Theatre told TN Senator Stacey Campfield to leave the...

Just as Hollywood is lining up to celebrate the movie romanticizing the silent film era, "The Artist", one of the era's ver...

I'm very happy to see that a few items I wrote about this week are getting more attention and scrutiny from the press and the public. ...