Students hope Mideast video game will produce insights, investors

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2007 9:21 PM EDT (web.israelinsider.com)

Video games are sometimes perceived as macabre, violent and worse. But one company wants to undo the enmity, using their video game, Peacemaker, to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

technology, video-game, electronic-arts, middle-east, peacemaker

Cities spend big money defending immigration-related ordinances

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 12:47 AM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

Cities across the U.S. are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves against lawsuits and other challenges to ordinances enacted to keep out illegal immigrants.

politics, immigration, city-government

Man shot in face in third shooting tonight

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 12:42 AM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

Get a grip on it, Nashville! What the heck is going on tonight? Please don't be like your younger sister, Memphis. Cars along the street were also shot, and police found rifle rounds and pistol casings in the area.

richard-foley, ninth-avenue, nashville

Rudy Giuliani's Ferret Freak-Out

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2007 7:28 PM EDT (freewilliamsburg.com)

Rudy Giuliani has a secret hatred of ferrets. Can Democrats--or his valiant Republican competitors--call him out on his odd disdain? Please don't tell me the 2008 presidential campaign could be centered around a ferret ...

politics, ferret, rudy-giuliani, presidential-campaign, giuliani

Police, FBI team up to catch alleged Nixon, Reagan-masked bank robbers

Seeded on Fri May 4, 2007 1:00 AM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon apparently will not return for a third terrifying appearance at a Bowling Green, Ky., bank.

odd-news, bowling-green, middle-tennessee, richard-nixon

Editor to college journalists: Create and innovate

Fri May 4, 2007 12:33 AM EDT

I ran this excerpt of a speech by Susan Goldberg while reading "Making Important News Interesting," a great book on public affairs reporting I chose for an independent study. Goldberg made this address to the February 2005 National College Newspaper Convention.

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college-journalism, journalism, new-media, media, technology

Man who gave teen wine must visit grave

Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:29 PM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

The issue? What sort of punishment, if any, is warranted for a man who provided some wine to an 18-year-old girl who ended up dead in a car wreck. Interestingly, though, alcohol was not implicated in the crash.

alcoholism, law, tennessee, alcohol, drunk-driving

Keeping Your Cool in a Choppy Market

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:20 PM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)

Suze Orman gives us some hints on taking it easy despite market volatility. She even tells us about a little-known "silver lining" to market drops, that when markets fall, fund managers go buying. That's a good thing.

business, stock-market, stocks

Green Power: The U.S.'s Top 10 Cities

Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:52 PM EDT (blogs.business2.com)

Not surprisingly, Portland, Ore., tops the list of the "greenest" U.S. cities this Earth Day. Oakland, Calif., has the largest plurality of green energy, deriving 17 percent of its energy from renewable sources, like geothermal, wind and solar power.

technology, green-city, environmentalism, portland, oregon

Publications propose self-regulation as some news racks are being moved

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2007 11:12 AM EDT (The (Nashville) City Paper)

The Nashville, Tenn. Metro Council and the city's mayor are at odds over a proposed Metro fee regulating bins for publications in the public right-of-way. Opponents cite the First Amendment as their primary argument.

politics, bill-purcell, mike-jameson, nashville, metro-council, urban-residents-association

Merchants pay more to accept credit cards

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2007 11:03 AM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

More people are resorting to plastic for paying their bills, whether for credit cards' convenience, speed or borrowing power. But customers' increased use of the magnetic wonders could be costing retailers, while banks reap the rewards.

business, credit-cards, credit-card, nashville, retail

Bill would require pimps to be tested for HIV/AIDS

Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2007 9:33 PM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

Legislation that would require individuals convicted of promoting prostitution to be tested for HIV overwhelmingly passed the House on Thursday, but one lawmaker who voted against the measure believes it's unconstitutional.

health, medicine-nationworld, hiv, tennessee, tennessee-general-assembly, pimp

Brentwood law firm sues maker of tainted peanut butter

Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2007 9:29 PM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

A Brentwood-based law firm has filed what the attorneys say is the nation's first class-action lawsuit related to Peter Pan peanut butter contaminated with salmonella bacteria.

us-news, peanut-butter

Chávez Moves to Nationalize Two Industries

Seeded on Tue Jan 9, 2007 7:40 AM EST (The New York Times)

President Hugo Chávez signaled a vigorous new effort to assert greater control over Venezuela's economy on Monday by announcing plans to nationalize companies in the telecommunications and electricity industries. [ ... ]

world-news, hugo-chavez, venezuela

Macworld Expo '07: Eager Expectations

Tue Jan 9, 2007 7:26 AM EST

It's nearing 5 a.m. local time, and a quick Google News search for today's Macworld Expo keynote renders 341 related articles.

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technology, iphone, mac, apple

Monument to the Planet Suffers a Hard Fall to Earth

Seeded on Sun Jan 7, 2007 6:52 PM EST (The New York Times)

A 175-ton quartzite and bronze sculpture intended to stir debate over global warming mysteriously crashed to the ground at Kennesaw State University.

nytimes, us, sculpture, kennesaw-state-university

College Papers Launch Nationwide Protest

Seeded on Wed Dec 6, 2006 4:32 AM EST (Editor & Publisher)

More than a dozen college newspapers today carried the same editorial, denouncing the denial of reappointment for the editor of The Daily Trojan, the student-run newspaper at the University of Southern California.

education, daily-trojans, southern-california, zach-fox, uclas-daily-bruin, daily-trojan, college-media

Minnesota tops list in health rankings - CNN.com

Seeded on Tue Dec 5, 2006 1:20 PM EST (CNN)

Again, Minnesota comes in as the No. 1 healthiest state in the country, followed by other financially well-to-do states. Also as predicted, the South continues to lag behind, probably because of inaccessibility to quality food products and low income.

health, healthiest-states

For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs Big Debate - New York Times

Seeded on Fri Dec 1, 2006 12:48 PM EST (The New York Times)

Manufactured for a mere $40, this notebook computer could be an equaliser for third-world countries' disproportionate access to the Internet -- and the wealth of information it contains. In a globalised economy, access is key. Thomas Friedman would be pleased.

technology, third-world, internet-economy

In Tennessee, Human Rights Campaign still relevant

Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:47 PM EST

A friend of mine wrote a little blog post today, which came off as a scathing indictment of the Human Rights Campaign. Interesting argument. Here's the full text of his argument, followed by my rebuttal: These people make me want to vomit. I hate the HRC.

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politics, gay, human-rights-campaign, tennessee

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