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| Blog Name: | Take Highway 12 |
| Url: | http://kevinpaulk.wordpress.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Tennessee, Transportation, Music |
| Description: | Welcome to my blog. I’m a journalist with 23 years of experience in daily newspapers in Tennessee and Florida, most recently at The Tennessean in Nashville. Born in Memphis, reared largely in Chattanooga, married for two decades to a Knoxville native, transitioning to middle age in the Midstate — I’d say Tennessee is in my blood. Here’s where I share my thoughts on writing and editing, politics and government, music (classic country, bluegrass, rockabilly, Big Band, the three phases of Elvis), movies and TV (mostly old), and transportation — cars, trains, boats, maps, and more than you wanted to know about roads and highways. Like Highway 12, the link between Nashville and the town I live in, Ashland City. It’s no ferocious freeway; four sometimes-meandering lanes have been the perfect avenue for easing me into the workday, and for clearing my mind when the workday ends. Everyone needs a good travel companion, so thanks for joining me on the journey. |
| Popularity: | 23 Followers |
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A real farmer takes on the ‘agri-intellectuals’
I confess that I’m one of those people from the city (or, in my case, the suburbs) who’ve had a beef with modern agribusiness as it’s practiced in the United States. I held a romantic’s view of farming, aided by the memory of five of my most wonderful growing-up years. In Huntsville, Ala., our subdivision was surrounded [...]
I confess that I’m one of those people from the city (or, in my case, the suburbs) who’ve had a beef with modern agribusiness as it’s practiced in the United States. I held a romantic’s view of farming, aided by the memory of five of my most wonderful growing-up years. In Huntsville, Ala., our subdivision was surrounded [...]
They’re politicizing national security
I’m convinced that the Obama administration’s decision to try five 9/11 war criminals in civilian federal court is about politics — not send-a-message-to-the-world-about-our-values politics but rough-and-tumble domestic electoral politics. And that’s a travesty. In a National Review Online piece this week, Andrew McCarthy explained how the move is designed to give the anti-war left its promised [...]
I’m convinced that the Obama administration’s decision to try five 9/11 war criminals in civilian federal court is about politics — not send-a-message-to-the-world-about-our-values politics but rough-and-tumble domestic electoral politics. And that’s a travesty. In a National Review Online piece this week, Andrew McCarthy explained how the move is designed to give the anti-war left its promised [...]
Edward Woodward, RIP
Actor Edward Woodward has died at age 79. He was great in Breaker Morant, and to me even greater in the TV crime drama The Equalizer. What other hero drove a Jaguar, drank only the best wine, had a killer Manhattan apartment — and boasted an arsenal that would rival a small nation’s? Here’s an insightful [...]
Actor Edward Woodward has died at age 79. He was great in Breaker Morant, and to me even greater in the TV crime drama The Equalizer. What other hero drove a Jaguar, drank only the best wine, had a killer Manhattan apartment — and boasted an arsenal that would rival a small nation’s? Here’s an insightful [...]
In WH press room, spinner and spun alike have short memories
It’s so moving when White House press secretary Robert Gibbs gets a little wistful. It happened at Friday afternoon’s White House press briefing, after a Mother Jones reporter read him a provocative quote from Thursday’s health care legislation protest on Capitol Hill. Gibbs was led to lament the “stunning” state of American political discourse: “In this [...]
It’s so moving when White House press secretary Robert Gibbs gets a little wistful. It happened at Friday afternoon’s White House press briefing, after a Mother Jones reporter read him a provocative quote from Thursday’s health care legislation protest on Capitol Hill. Gibbs was led to lament the “stunning” state of American political discourse: “In this [...]
Construction watch: Weekend I-440 work resumes / Memphis-area bridge work / I-40 blasting in West Na
Click here and follow the first eight links to find out about road work the Tennessee Department of Transportation has scheduled through next Wednesday. The highlights: The shutdown of part of Interstate 440 shutdown in Nashville resumes this weekend. The affected section: all westbound lanes between Interstate 24 and Interstate 65. Paving and blasting will disrupt traffic [...]
Click here and follow the first eight links to find out about road work the Tennessee Department of Transportation has scheduled through next Wednesday. The highlights: The shutdown of part of Interstate 440 shutdown in Nashville resumes this weekend. The affected section: all westbound lanes between Interstate 24 and Interstate 65. Paving and blasting will disrupt traffic [...]
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