R. Neal

September 12, 2007 - Daryl Holton, a 47 year old Gulf War veteran said to possibly be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, was executed by the State of Tennessee early this morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

September 6, 2007 - You may recall our previous discussions here and here about a potentially serious safety incident at Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin Tennessee that was not disclosed to

September 6, 2007 - The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that West TN businessman Mike McWherter, the son of wildly popular former TN Governor Ned Ray McWherter, is still the front runner among unannounced candidates to challenge Sen. Lamar Alexander for U.S. Senate.

September 4, 2007 - According to an extensive AFL-CIO report on workplace safety, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded 5,734 workplace fatalities in 2005.

August 30, 2007 - President Bush in New Orleans yesterday:

August 28, 2007 - A new report by the Trust for America's Health finds there is a growing problem with obesity, particularly in the South.

August 23, 2007 - Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's environmental policies are under fire from "Freedom Works", a conservative Washington D.C. "policy group" that "recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom." The group is headed by former U.S.