Surrounding the launch of Real Housewives of DC, The Washington City Paper examines why DC-based reality shows suck.
Welcome to reality TV’s Washington: Wealthy women with Newsweek-grade opinions waxing soporific on the existential significance of a black president on Real Housewives;...
Not only was I stuck in traffic for 4.5 hours yesterday and didn’t have power at my apartment until 2 a.m., but something also went wrong on CosmoCon. While the events are unrelated, my blog had to be backed up...
I wrote about the Black marriage crisis at Black Christian News.com this week. In the black community, the institution of marriage is essentially dead. While marriage in Western developed nations is declining in general, the black community and black women are...
Election Day dawns with hopeful, energized sign-wavers literally wearing the t-shirts, and continues with voters eager to exercise their rights and do their duty. Election night starts off with high anticipation; but for everyone except the winners, it quickly takes...
This week on Tennessee Insider.
By Thursday evening, nearly 52,000 ballots were cast in Hamilton County's general election, which included some high-profile statewide primary races.
Two of the night's biggest winners came from hotly contested Republican primaries. Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam won...
Dr. Jean Howard-Hill says that, in the final days of the campaign, the Tennessee Republican African American Caucus "released" its members to vote for someone other than herself. Howard-Hill chairs the organization's parent group, the National Republican African American Caucus.
Howard-Hill...
In an e-mail message to supporters, Knoxville attorney Van Irion said he hopes to be able to work with Chuck Fleischmann should the latter prevail in the general election and become the Third District's next representative in Congress. "We will...
Rep. Zach Wamp conceded the race to represent the Republican Party for Tennessee's gubernatorial race to Bill Haslam Thursday evening. Speaking from the Chattanoogan Hotel, Wamp stood beside his family during his remarks.
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Vote tallies from the Hamilton County Election Commission on local races.
Chancellor, Division 2
Jeff Atherton: 26,082 Valerie Epstein: 11,162 Art Grisham: 8,081 Write-in Votes 51
County Mayor
Claude Ramsey: 37,484 Richard D. Ford: 10,450 Write-in Votes: 159
County Commission, District 1
Fred Rees Skillern: 4,990...
Well-traveled Western swing jazz trio, Hot Club of Cowtown, is this week’s Nightfall series musical offering, with opening act, Gerle Haggard.
Hot Club of Cowtown’s sophisticated, Western-style string playing has toes tapping across the globe. From the Cambridge Folk Festival to...
Besting a crowded field of candidates in a race that began a year and a half ago, Chuck Fleischmann secured the Republican nomination for Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District race Thursday evening.
Fleischmann, a Chattanooga-based lawyer, was locked in a tight race...
National Priorities Project Tallies Cost of War Including Recent Supplemental Bill through September 30, 2010 $749.9 billion for Iraq $337.8 billion for Afghanistan $1.09 trillion total spending ...
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