Month: March 2009

State of the Union: Democracy and the Web Press

Connecting the Dots by Glynn Wilson I almost lost my breakfast in my plate as I watched CNN’s John King interview Dick Cheney on his “State of the Union” show this Sunday. It made me want to get rid of…

Secret Vistas: The Great Smoky Mountains

National Park Celebrates 75th Anniversary Glynn Wilson A rock tunnel beckons as you enter the Great Smoky Mountains National Park… by Glynn Wilson GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS — When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood at Newfound Gap with one foot in…

Science Wins Over Religion in Scopes Monkey Trial?

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species Turns 150 Glynn Wilson The famous Rhea County Courthouse, where the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial took place Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson DAYTON, Tenn. — Forty-three years after the death of British…

TVA to Begin Coal Ash Spill Cleanup March 20

Glynn Wilson A coal ash island visible in the Emory River with the smokestacks of TVA’s coal fired power plant at Kingston, Tennessee in the background. by Glynn Wilson KINGSTON, Tenn. — Steve Scarborough came to East Tennessee from Georgia…