- Issue Archive for
- Nov 2-8, 2000
- Vol. 1, No. 611
News
Mr. Ward Goes to Washington
Memphis public defender Mark Ward held his cool under intense pressure Wednesday to present a controversial case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Weathering sharply critical and insightful questions of his case, Ward argued that the Tennessee Supreme Court cannot retroactively punish an already convicted person should state laws change after the crime has occurred.
Louisville Votes on Consolidation
Consolidation is supposedly a political impossibility in Memphis, but Louisville, Kentucky, a city with some similarities, is poised to pull it off next week.
Why I Am Not Going To Vote
"Would you rather have a noxious know it all or the class clown for president?"
Advice From Your Friendly Cable Company
Good old Time Warner, always watching out for the public's interest, whether it's limiting our "risk" or shoving Howard Stern down our throats.
Disillusioned in Austin
Austin appears to be Bush country from convenience stores papered in the candidate's posters to Bush/Cheney litter strewn UT campus.
Politics
Scattered Splatter
in the wee hours past election midnight. Two Yellow Dog Democrats stood on the 27th floor balcony of a Nashville law firm. To the west they could see the outline of the hotel where Vice President Albert sat in a room wondering whether he was to be the bug or the windshield in this election
A Last Weekend in Memphis
Hilary J.D. MacKenzie is the Washington bureau chief of the Southam News, a news service for Canadian and British newspapers. Her mission to Memphis this past weekend was simple: make a decision about where to be on Tuesday-- election night and the final act of the 2000 presidential race.
Sports
Deja Vu: Vols Beat Tigers in Final Seconds
For the second consecutive season, Tennessee scored the winning points in the final minute of the game as the Vols beat the Tigers 19-17 before 63,121 rain-soaked fans at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Saturday.
Opinion
Who Is Elvis Prez-ley?
A line of attack frequently pursued by Vice President Al Gore's Republican adversaries in this year's presidential race has been that he is only a nominal Tennessean, that he is actually a son of Washington, D.C., and that his contacts with home-staters are only superficial and occasional.
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