One of the ironies of Barack Obama's presidency is that the South, the red island that rejected his election so vigorously in 2008, may wind up being the place that makes a cornerstone of his agenda work. The South is becoming a major player in the shift to the Green energy economy that Obama advocates. Georgia Tech researchers, for instance, have recorded significant advancements in both wind and solar technology. Two Virginia firms are among the first companies to apply for federal permits to set up offshore wind turbines. North Georgia carpet mills are leading the way in recycling industrial ...
Some potential visitors are telling Tennessee tourism officials they won't visit the state after the CEO of the Tennessee Tourism Association sent out an e-mail comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. "And I can't say I blame any of them," Susan Whitaker, commissioner of the the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development told The Tennessean. "We certainly feel this was inexcusable and unacceptable."
So inexcusable that the tourism association on Monday removed Walt Baker as CEO and severed ties with his marketing firm, Mercatus Communications. Baker said it was just a little joke -- a little joke that ...
What if the Devil and the Pope made a pact to take over the world with a Eucharist wafer? That, according to WBIR.com in Knoxville, Tennessee, is the theme of "The Death Cookie," one of the booklets handed out at Pigeon Forge High School by a member of Conner Heights Baptist Church. "It says that our Eucharist is of the devil," Father Jay Flaherty of Holy Cross Catholic Church told WBIR.
Conner Heights pastor Jonathan Hatcher couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. "Our goal," he told WBIR, "is not to spread nor to start violence, not to spread hatred, ...
Reverend Al Sharpton planned to join a march in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday in support of electronic bingo. Reverend Jesse Jackson announced Wednesday that he also will be there. Civil rights pioneer and former Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford said the march will be to show support for workers laid off from casinos closed under threat of raids from Governor Bob Riley's anti-gambling task force.
Meanwhile, the Alabama Senate voted against bringing up a bill for debate that would allow voters to decide in a November referendum whether they want electronic bingo gambling. Many state officials contend it already is legal, and ...
Since Republicans began accusing Barack Obama of socialism during his 2008 presidential campaign, the Democratic Socialists of America say their membership has increased 64 percent. “Suddenly there are more people who want to know what it actually is,” says Fred Hicks, head of the Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, in Louisville, Kentucky.
“This is a wonderful gift the Republicans are giving us,” Frank Llewellyn, the national director of the DSA, told the Louisville Courier-Journal. “We've had more attention in the last 12 months than in the last 12 years. But most people don't have a clue what socialism is.”
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The Alabama Senate postponed a vote on electronic bingo gambling, but supporters won a shouting match in front of the capitol, rolling out country music stars Tracy Lawrence, John Anderson and Darryl Worley and drowning out speeches by Governor Bob Riley and First Lady Patsy Riley, who tried to rally the anti forces.
Worley, one of the developers of Country Crossing, which shut down under threat of raids from Riley's anti-gambling task force, said he asked God whether he should speak at the rally: "He spoke to me and said, 'You go down there and speak your heart,' I believe Country ...
Will the Alabama Senate vote on an electronic bingo bill in time to prevent a showdown between the attorney general and Governor Bob Riley's anti-gambling task force? The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on a bill that could stop the governor's task force by regulating, taxing and expanding electronic bingo casinos in Alabama.
Attorney General Troy King declared this week that he has the authority to "intervene into the controversial and irresponsible activities of the task force," which has forced two of the state's biggest casinos to shut down under threat of raids. Greene County, in turn, has threatened to ...
While most Southern states are bearing up under the unusual cold and snow, Florida is chilling in a bad way. Beach bars and hotels are serving far fewer sunbathers and snowbirds, golfers are staying away, and fishing and boating trips are down, reports the St. Petersburg Times.
Stunned iguanas have been falling out of trees, and now the cold is killing off endangered manatees. Nearly 200 have died, and hundreds of others stressed by the cold are taxing statewide facilities that care for the marine mammals.
Last year, the Tampa Bay area had one day in which the temperature did not reach ...
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