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R. Neal at KnoxViews lays out his reasons for getting behind his Mayor for the GOP primary, at least. First, he smacks down Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey: Ron Ramsey might be an appealing candidate for Democrats to run against, but as liberal, left-wing Democrats we cannot in good conscience recommend him. He would reduce...
The Commercial Appeal reports that the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church has asked Gov. Phil Bredesen to commute the sentence of Gail Owens who is facing execution on September 28th. From the article: Tennessee Methodists approved a resolution at their annual conference last week that both reaffirms the church’s opposition to the...
You know, after the financial meltdown that has put everyone’s financial future, except for the ultra wealthy, in jeopardy, I thought for sure that wackadoodle ideas like privatizing Social Security would die a quiet death. Boy was I wrong. Turns out, there’s a renewed push to create private accounts for Social Security by a...
Nick Beadle of the Jackson Sun is on the case with more: Last week I wrote that a Memphis-area Tea Party group was complaining that Republican Stephen Fincher had not returned their calls about a debate in Bartlett but Democrat Roy Herron was talking with them about participating in the event. According to an...
Christian Grantham is done but not for the reasons you might think. This morning I was getting gas for the lawn mower when I saw these signs on the BP gas pumps. They warned customers that “gas pump won’t stop by itself” and “gas will pour out if you don’t stop it.” As I...
The CA’s Bart Sullivan is all over this one: Republican congressional candidate Stephen Fincher’s receipt of $3.2 million in federal crop subsidies since 1999 is likely to be a major issue in a year of Tea Party political ascendancy within the GOP. Some see Fincher’s receipt of subsidies as a potential conflict of interest...
We wrote last week about the valiant struggle that Katie Allison Granju’s family has been fighting for the last month. Her beloved son passed away last night. There are no words of comfort we can give, but Michael Silence wrote this beautiful piece earlier today. Here at Speak to Power, all we can say...
In a bittersweet post at Pith in the Wind, Betsy Phillips writes about how the parks in Nashville did their job during the flooding. And now many of them are home to what was lost in the storms. I honestly hadn’t given much thought to the job so many of them did for us...
We have heard a lot of wonderful stories of community, of strong will and sadness in the aftermath of the Tennessee Flood. Grey Street Girl is chronicling her journey in Nashville at the blog Adventures in Disaster Recovery. In her first post from earlier this month, she described that fateful day when she saw...
For nearly an hour last night, the State House of Representatives debated a resolution to commend the state of Arizona for a centennial that doesn’t happen for two years, or that’s what the sponsor would have you believe. In reality, Rep. Joe Carr freely admits, were it not for Arizona’s new immigration law, he...