The Week That Was
Woolly winter
Boo birds
The Tennessee Titans played their first regular-season game at Adelphia Coliseum, coming from behind to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 36-35. But fans angered the home team by booing quarterback Steve McNair, even as he was passing for 341 yards and three touchdowns. Maybe they were cranky because the lines at beer stands were a dozen deep before sales could legally begin. State law bars sale of alcohol before noon on Sundays.
Citizens for Fair Taxes launched a TV ad campaign aimed at drumming up support for state tax reform. The ad says a budget crisis threatens schools, public safety, and health care, and likens the state’s tax system to the Model T and silent films. Anti-tax crusaders responded by vowing to defeat tax reformers at the polls. They formed a political action committee to raise money for their cause. On their hit list: House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and one of his top lieutenants, Matt Kisber.
The hornets sent mixed signals. But judging by the black woolly worms, the sound of the katydid, and the three thick fogs in August, weather prophet Helen Lane could predict the coming winter: Expect three heavy snows and plenty of cold. The 79-year-old Lane, who lives in Crab Orchard, published her first forecast in the Crossville Chronicle 40 years ago.
Citizens for Fair Taxes launched a TV ad campaign aimed at drumming up support for state tax reform. The ad says a budget crisis threatens schools, public safety, and health care, and likens the state’s tax system to the Model T and silent films. Anti-tax crusaders responded by vowing to defeat tax reformers at the polls. They formed a political action committee to raise money for their cause. On their hit list: House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and one of his top lieutenants, Matt Kisber.
The hornets sent mixed signals. But judging by the black woolly worms, the sound of the katydid, and the three thick fogs in August, weather prophet Helen Lane could predict the coming winter: Expect three heavy snows and plenty of cold. The 79-year-old Lane, who lives in Crab Orchard, published her first forecast in the Crossville Chronicle 40 years ago.
