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Posted: Sunday - Sept. 5, 2010
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Corker’s biggest challenge
Chattanooga’s Bob Corker probably has never been content tinkering with small problems and little ideas. He’s always been a builder with a bigger vision.
Posted: Saturday - Sept. 4, 2010
Labor Day, 2010
For years, succeeding generations of Americans celebrated Labor Day in a traditional manner.
Posted: Saturday - Sept. 4, 2010
Whirlpool invests in Cleveland
There’s nothing like an economic vote of confidence to promote pride and provide a bit of security for residents of a community.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 3, 2010
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The contagion of bigotry
Gov. Phil Bredesen issued a statement this week urging tolerance and respect for religious freedom in the wake of arson at an Islamic center under construction in Murfreesboro.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 3, 2010
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Corker’s biggest challenge
Chattanooga’s Bob Corker has probably never been content tinkering with small problems and little ideas. He’s always been a builder with a bigger vision.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 2, 2010
Ending combat in Iraq
President Obama’s formal observance of the end of American combat operations in Iraq was correctly low key, a marker of a milestone that comes not with the victory that the war’s instigator once envisioned, but rather with reconciliation with the reality of a pointless war.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 1, 2010
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Recall battle moves to court
The deadline Monday for the last signatures gathered by the three groups pushing for recall elections ended just the first phase of the initiative.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 1, 2010
Storm warnings for East Coast
Though the Atlantic hurricane season extends from June through November, September historically is the most active month of the period and early to mid-September is the busiest period within that time frame. Current events certainly support that fact.
Posted: Tuesday - Aug. 31, 2010
Principles before money
Contemporary higher education is many things to many people, but one thing has not changed over the years.
Posted: Tuesday - Aug. 31, 2010
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Retroactive benefits unfair
The county school board’s decision to reconsider tonight an earlier vote in which board members approved creation of a pension plan for themselves owes mainly to public criticism about two issues.
Posted: Monday - Aug. 30, 2010
Pakistan’s altered landscape
No one is sure of the exact number, but there is general agreement that about 1 million additional people have been adversely affected by surging floodwaters in Pakistan in recent days.
Posted: Monday - Aug. 30, 2010
Girding for battle in Georgia
Once upon a time, candidates who had weathered primary races in the spring and summer waited until Labor Day to renew campaigns seeking election in November.
Posted: Sunday - Aug. 29, 2010
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Indefensible Islamophobia
It is now obvious that a vein of vehement Islamophobia has been opened among many Americans, and it is being recklessly and maliciously exploited for political advantage in the fall elections.
Posted: Saturday - Aug. 28, 2010
3 Comments
School board pensions
County school board members are drawing criticism for voting to give themselves a public pension benefit.
Posted: Saturday - Aug. 28, 2010
Wal-Mart vs. women workers
Wal-Mart Stores has made significant advances in becoming greener and more energy efficient, but the company has not managed to shed its long image of low-pay and benefits, and alleged discrimination toward women employees with regard to pay and promotion.

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