There’s a thin line between normal and insane. I think I’m standing on it… which would explain the big blob of crazy on my shoe.
Posted in Hawkins County, Local Characters, Tennessee, events on Oct 30th, 2008
My intention was to give you more info about the Wheels of Faith 7th annual Christmas For The Children Toy Run this Saturday and link you to this 2007 Toy Run video by Jerome Cloninger of JC/DV Productions. However, I got sidetracked by Jerome’s other videos: like this this super cute kid [...]
Hank Hayes offers up Q&A with Mike Harrison and Richard Gabriel, candidates for the House District 9 seat. Harrison gives the standard Republican answers, stopping just short of telling the locals to read his lips… meanwhile Richard Gabriel thinks, in order for the state to balance the budget: “The constant follow or movement of money [...]
Posted in Hawkins County, Local Characters, Tennessee, politics on Oct 28th, 2008
Ms. Diva came home proudly wearing her “I voted today” sticker.
Her primary school held a mock election. She cast her vote for Obama – because, she says: “He’s brown and I’m brown.”
She was less than pleased when McCain won.
Of course, I can’t say I’m surprised.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Smartypants’ 9-year-old friend informed [...]
Posted in politics on Oct 27th, 2008
… he’s not that Republican running for Congress. He is the other Republican – the one who loves his dog and is endorsed by the *Human Society of the United States.
The HSLF appears to have endorsed Roe mostly because he’s not David Davis and/or because he publicly criticized Davis’ vote against the Animal Fighting [...]
Hank Hayes has a Q&A with our contenders for the 4th District State Senate seat. The Q parts are good, the A – eh, mostly nonspecific campaign prattle which candidates often use for the purpose of appealing to voters. Therefore, I thought it might be helpful if I translated the answers for you.
Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Oct 25th, 2008
The IRS is looking for Tennessee taxpayers who are missing more than 5,800 economic stimulus checks totaling about $3.3 million and nearly 2,000 regular refund checks totaling about $1.7 million that were returned by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. Nationwide, more than 279,000 economic stimulus checks totaling about $163 million and [...]
Hank Hayes offers up a Q&A with House District 1 Candidates: Jon Lundberg (R) and Mike Surgenor – who is Lundberg’s Democratic opponent with the name I could not recall.
The interview is the first in a series, which pleases me immensely. I was getting bored with the Nathan Vaughn & Tony Shipley Variety Show.
The Times-News reports that Sullivan County election officials have confirmed multiple voters have been given incorrect ballots — meaning they could have, and in some cases did, vote in the wrong state House race — during early voting.
In one case, three or four voters at the Kingsport Civic Auditorium were given ballots containing the House [...]
Posted in Hawkins County, Local Characters on Oct 23rd, 2008
Several of the Joseph Rogers Primary School teachers tried out a new profession this past Tuesday (10/21).
They donned their aprons and went to work at McDonald’s for McTeacher’s Nite.
School staff (including Principal Charlotte Webb) worked the Rogersville location from 5-8pm and retained 20% of all sales made during that time. I think they raised around [...]
Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Oct 23rd, 2008
Mike Faulk, who lives in the City of Kingsport (a portion of which Hawkins County reluctantly claims) frequently mentions that he hangs his lawyering-hat in Church Hill and once served as their city attorney.
So, he can’t be thrilled about this press release from Senator Williams’ office:
Church Hill–The City of Church Hill in Hawkins County honored [...]
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