- Issue Archive for
- Jan 11-17, 2001
- Vol. 1, No. 621
News
A PLAN FOR JUSTICE?
After 2,000 phone interviews, 10 public meetings, and years of steering committees, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) released its Environment Justice Strategic Plan last month. Local environmental activists remain skeptical that TDEC's enforcement procedures will improve.
SIMON SEZ'
I was listening to "Fresh Air," a talk show on National Public Radio with host Terry Gross, and to my surprise, singer/songwriter Paul Simon was being interviewed. It occurred to me that I had never actually heard the guy speak (outside of a couple Saturday Night Live appearances), so I decided to take a listen.
LOCAL BIZ GROWTH COULD HELP HOMEBUILDING RECESSION
Message from Shelby County suburban developers and homebuilders to corporate giants FedEx and International Paper: Hurry up with those expansions.
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
I took Bill Clinton with me to India.
Politics
WHAT'S NEXT FOR GORE (PART TWO)
In an existential sense (to evoke a term you don't see much anymore but still applies), Al Gore is up against it. After the public injury of losing an extended, public double-overtime contest for the presidency of the United States of America last month, his more sub-rosa quest for the presidency of Harvard, ended in something of an insult.
RENDERING TO CAESAR
GREENVILLE, S.C.-- The good folks (for that is how they see themselves) at Bob Jones University are no doubt astounded to find themselves for the second time in a year -- nay, for the second time in a brand-new millennium -- to be a focus of national, even world attention. Inexorably, it must seem, this monastic tribe is brought out of its preferred backwater by the presence of some or another prominent politician.
RENDERING TO CAESAR
GREENVILLE, S.C.-- The good folks (for that is how they see themselves) at Bob Jones University are no doubt astounded to find themselves for the second time in a year -- nay, for the second time in a brand-new millennium -- to be a focus of national, even world attention. Inexorably, it must seem, this monastic tribe is brought out of its preferred backwater by the presence of some or another prominent politician.
Sports
MANIAX TICKET SALES A RELATIVE SUCCESS
Relatively speaking, Memphis Maniax ticket sales are keeping up with the big boys.
WINNING TIME
Conference play will make or break the season for the Tigers.
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