On Monday, Tennessee was awarded $500 million from the U.S. Department of Education as part of Race to the Top, a two-phase stimulus program that will disperse $4 billion in competitive grants to states implementing sweeping education reforms.
In January, the...
Image via WikipediaOn the Missouri-Synod's website on the section covering Social/Ethical Issues you will find the most progressive and helpful discussion on race of any confessional Protestant denomination in America. Racism and the Church [1994] The first untenable assumption that frustrates...
G.M. Hopkins c. Hopkins Quarterly
[Hopkins] has got this absolutely fresh imagination. I didn’t know this for a long time, but he was a very unhappy man. He suffered a great deal, was virtually ignored by his peers. So he...
Okay, I know I'm supposed to stay within my little neighborhood of East Lake on this blog, but really Chattanooga, WTH is going on? Gangs have been in East Lake since the beginning of East Lake--well not quite that far back...
As I move around in the Washington Heights part of New York City I'm beginning to see more and more clearly the hatred that people from the Dominican Republic have toward black people. They have been some of the most...
A front-page story in Sunday's edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press details two options from city hall concerning the pending retirement of Chattanooga Police Chief Freeman Cooper: extend Cooper's contract for three more years or place Hamilton County Sheriff...
Gov. Mike Huckabee carried Tennessee in the 2008 "Super Tuesday" GOP presidential preference primary. He has a political commentary show, titled Huckabee, on the FOX News cable network. As has been mentioned here previously, Huckabee's 2008 campaign manager, former Tennessee...
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