CONSUMER REPORTS

CONSUMER REPORTS

• by Chris Davis

City Reporter

TV stations ignore request to hold school report; and other news.

• by Flyer Staff

The Many Sides of Sara Lewis

Love or hate her -- and there are plenty in both camps --the controversial school board member has a way of getting things done.

• by Mary Cashiola

'I HAVE A DREAM'

"...Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children....."

• by Frank Murtaugh

SENATORS AND MONSTERS

SENATORS AND MONSTERS

• by Chris Davis

Who You Gonna Call?

Protecting our streams and groundwater is everybody's business.

• by Andrew Wilkins

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Bruce Plante

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Bruce Plante

MEDICINE TODAY

MEDICINE TODAY

• by Chris Davis

I am continually amazed at the cluelessness of the Republican Party. This is evidenced by Jackson Baker's recent column noting that they were courting our congressman, Harold Ford, in the hopes that he would convert and (hopefully) bring his support with him.

• by Frank Murtaugh

Short Cuts

Introducing Canada's Lucinda Williams.

BAD PROGNOSIS FOR TENNCARE

NASHVILLE -- TennCare will end the state's budget year next June with at least a $258 million shortfall despite the largest tax increase in Tennessee history, the program's director told legislators Wednesday. The shortfall is expected largely because reforms failed to generate the expected savings, and payments to managed care organizations (MCOs) and for drugs are higher than expected, TennCare Director Manny Martins told House members during the second day of their organizational session.

• by Jackson Baker

BREDESEN, AT INAUGURATION, PROMISES MIDDLE GROUND

NASHVILLE -- A newly inaugurated Gov. Phil Bredesen said Saturday he will seek a common-sense middle ground between higher taxes and spending cuts to solve problems as governor. Bredesen, 59, took the oath of office as TennesseeÕs 48th governor before a chilled gathering of about 3,000 people on the sun-splashed Legislative Plaza.

• by Jackson Baker

POLITICS: Frustrated Suitors

FRUSTRATED SUITORS As previously reported here, there is new movement on the Harold Ford front. This time it's not among his fellow Democrats, whom the 31-year-old U.S. representative courted last fall in an unsuccessful race for House minority leader against the better-known Nancy Pelosi of California. This time it comes from Republicans, who-- well off the media radar screen -- have been carrying on a running courtship of Ford for some time now. "I've had a number of approaches from them," the 9th District congressman said last week of the overtures from the GOP, both national and Tennessee-based.

• by Jackson Baker

FROM MY SEAT

A BOWL FULL OF MEMORIES In honor of Super Bowl XXXVII, here are 37 reasons that despite far too many blowouts, the Super Bowl remains a sports spectacle second to none (okay, second to the World Series).

• by Frank Murtaugh

Battle Flares

Calvin Williams surrenders on the commission front, while Loeffel remains embattled. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Tennessee legislators prepare for a new session of Congress.

• by Jackson Baker

HOW IT LOOKS

• by Frank Murtaugh

I am continually amazed at the cluelessness of the Republican Party. This is evidenced by Jackson Baker's recent column noting that they were courting our congressman, Harold Ford, in the hopes that he would convert and (hopefully) bring his support with him.

• by Frank Murtaugh

POLITICS

TEST CASE If there is a moderate among the newly sworn-in class of Republicans...Tennesssee's junior U.S. senator Lamar Alexander certainly is that person....How then has Alexander reacted to his party's Trent Lott debacle and to two controversial recent moves by George W. Bush -- the president's insistence of renominating U.S. Judge Charles Pickering of Mississippi for a federal appeals courts positio and Bush's declared opposition to a University of Michigan affirmative action policy now being adjudicated?

• by Jackson Baker

GRIZ LOSE TO SONICS IN OT, 103-97

SEATTLE -- A Grizzly comeback got the Memphis-based NBAers into overtime, but the faltering Seattle Supersonics somehow managed to recover the shooting proficiency they had left behind in a hot first half, and ended up prevailing 103-97.

• by Frank Murtaugh

Wish List

Top 25? Top 50? It all depends on whom you ask.

• by Chris Gadd

Sweet Dreams

Memphis theaters heap praise on Patsy Cline, excellent washing machines, and ordinary women.

• by Chris Davis

On the Make

A writer's struggle in Adaptation; a cop's desperation in Narc.

Little Goodies

The president's tax-cut plan is economic folly.

• by Molly Ivins

A Cautionary Tale

Even the wealthy fall for investment schemes with bogus "returns."

• by John Branston

The School-Funding Conundrum

The School-Funding Conundrum

• by Editorial

Postscript

Flyer readers respond.

• by Flyer Readers