Thursday, July 23, 2009
Breaking News / Woods Morning Roundup: Stinging Wasps, Egotistical Creepy Men and Eco Catastrophes
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM
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TVA wines and dines everyone from power distributors, business prospects, and their own employees. Ben Hall reports a New York Yankees baseball game in the Bronx cost more than $4,500. Rounds of golf at private courses cost nearly $25,000. ... Newsweek ranks the ash spill right up there with Love Canal as an eco catastrophe. ... Marsha Blackburn doesn't know how to turn down the crazy. ... The House Energy and Commerce Committee again postpones meeting publicly to discuss health-care reform, and Rep. Bart Gordon says:
"After the election, [Obama] was more popular, but people are coming home" to the Republicans, "On health care, there has been a perception things are too partisan and moving too fast. People in my district want me to be independent."Wasps sting Joe McCord. ... Nashville's 1966 parks gun ban should stand, law director says. ... Gibbons manages to get his name in the paper. ... Herenton pauses from moving-day chores to bash critics:
"I've never seen this type of insanity. It's a perversion. It's perverted behavior. It's racism. It's small-time thinking. It's all of that.There's a sickness in this community that I've never seen in my entire life."Knox County mayor's aide targets blogger for snarky comments. ... Stimulus brings hope to Perry County. ... A legislative intern sends an email to Post Politics:
"I just hope all of this knocks those egotistical creepy men off their high horses and maybe scares them off from chasing around interns, and I can assure you that some of them did. I know some interns didn't have the best character but they were also 22 as opposed to 50+."
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