Editors
Trace Sharp is a former award-winning news director and managing editor whose interests now lies in new media. She also has 
worked in economic development serving as a program coordinator with Northwest Tennessee Economic Development Council. She has guest blogged across the state with Nashville is Talking, Music City Bloggers and NewsTechZilla, which she served as a co-founder.Her personal blog, Newscoma, has been written up by Salon Magazine as a featured blog and has broken stories that have appeared globally including on CNN and The Huffington Post. She has been interviewed from Pakistan to Los Angeles to her former hometown of Nashville on how blogging and social media has made the world more globally connected. Long-time readers of her blog know that her hobbies are Bigfoot fascination, zombie apocalypse preparation and her love of rural Americana. She currently works as a consultant and New Media advisor for gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter.
Steve Ross is a Memphis blogger that focuses on State and Local politics from a liberal perspective. Over the past several years he has written extensively about local government and ways to make local government work better for the people of Shelby County. Most recently he has been working to demystify the Metro Charter Commission through a series of posts dealing with the legal and practical issues surrounding the process. In real life he is a live event video director and college student studying Political Science and Public Administration.
Contributors
Steve Steffens – Steve Steffens has been involved in Democratic politics in Shelby County since he was a high-school senior in 1976, when he put up yard signs in Midtown Memphis for then-State Senator Jim White. He has been heavily involved in the campaigns of State Rep. Mike Kernell and former State Rep, and Memphis City Councilor Carol Chumney, along with the campaigns of Steve Cohen (both State Senate and Congress) and County campaigns too numerous to mention.
He spent six years on the Shelby County Democratic Executive Committee (1997-2003) and has done just about everything involved in a campaign except run for office himself.
In addition, he is an active supporter of the arts in Memphis, having worked on the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival since 1994 and the Memphis Scottish Festival, ClanJamFry, since 2001. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Center For Southern Folklore.
He began his personal blog, Left Wing Cracker, in November 2004 out of frustration at the national Democratic Party’s failures to elect a President. His primary focus of that blog is local and state politics, but will occasion venture into commentary on national issues, and even, at certain times, on local arts.
Steve is deeply proud to be working with his co-bloggers on this important project, and welcomes your comments.
Stephanie Sturgis –
[...] very own Steve Steffens, also known as Left Wing Cracker, has been spotlighted for a quote-of-the-day he recently made on [...]