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A shouting mob of more than 1,000 anti-tax protesters, fearing an 11th-hour approval of a state income tax, stormed the Capitol building yesterday, pounding on office doors and breaking a few windows, one of them by a rock hurled into Gov. Don Sundquist's office. For two emotional hours, authorities blocked entrances to the Capitol, where inside the Senate eventually voted a budget with no new taxes similar to one already passed by the House. No one was arrested. One woman was taken to an area hospital with an asthma attack, emergency medical workers said. The crowd grew to at least ...

''Ooh! Aaah!'' Sounds of amazement that greet Fourth of July fireworks are also likely to be uttered by drivers of gas guzzlers in the Nashville area as they fill up at the gas tank — and pay less this week than they did last week. Starting last weekend, prices for regular gas — that with the lowest octane rating and cheapest price — began to fall in the Nashville area, despite the approach of a holiday. A spot check of gas stations around the city yesterday found prices were as low as $1.11 per gallon at the new Kmart ...

Please, someome post this pic for me. Kristy Hinze

Former Vice President Al Gore said yesterday that he would spend much of the next year teaching and giving lectures at two Nashville-area universities, possibly starting as soon as next week. Gore, who conceded one of the closest presidential elections in American history last month and who left public office for the first time in 24 years when his campaign rival, George W. Bush, was inaugurated last weekend, will teach courses in community building at Fisk University in Nashville and Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. He’ll teach the Fisk course with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a Fisk ...

Next time you pull up to the drive-thru for a Happy Meal, think religious thoughts. Think Protestant thoughts. A spiritual global food fight has broken out. It tosses a rare spice or two into the modern art of hurried eating — theology and religious conflict. A few weeks ago an Italian Catholic theologian turned up the heat on the issue of fast food, calling it a wretched symbol of runaway individualism, a blight on Europe, a plague of Protestantism. The invasion of McDonald’s and other fast-food joints into Europe symbolizes "the complete neglect of the sacred nature of food," ...

A Nigerian-born former instructor at Meharry Medical College has filed a federal lawsuit against the Nashville school and its president, saying he was passed up for promotions because of his national origin. Dr. S. Adele Doherty, who now works at Dental Wellness Center in Madison, says in his complaint that less qualified applicants won jobs over him and that Dr. John Maupin, Meharry’s president, "has constantly ridiculed African-born professors" and denigrated African schools. The lawsuit asks for $500,000 in compensatory damages, $1 million in punitive damages, attorney fees and an injunction against "any further practices of discrimination and harassment." ...

On Saturday, 12/16/00 at 1:00 PM there will be a G. W. Bush victory rally at the Legislative Plaza at 6th and Deadrick, across the street from the Tennessee State Capital Building. The weather will not be in our favor, Rain/T'storms, winds 15 to 25 MPH, temps around 60. All week long we have been told since half the votes went to Gore, Bush has to get on bended knees to get the Dems to let him led this country. My vote was with the other half of the country. George W. Bush, stand tall, take control and lead this ...

12/11/00 - For 4 weeks we have rallied in over 300 cities across the nation now. In many places, the media has looked the other way. That will not be so this weekend! The time has come for our last (for now), and greatest of our organized rallies. It will be on the state capitols of every state comprising American soil and on our nation's capitol. What an exciting time to be a conservative!! March this Saturday to signal a new era. Beginning with the failure of Al Gore's attempt to steal the election from President-elect Bush, the liberals ...

This was my first rally and while the crowd was small (25-30), I enjoyed being there with them. A hardnose Marine Vet (former Marine myself, 69-72) kind of took charge and led us in the pledge to the flag and a group prayer. There was a Goreon that showed up but he stayed across the street and would run off whenever he yelled something stupid. Many cars and vans showed support as they drove by. I left after about 45 minutes and started to come back after I heard about the Supreme Court ruling but it's hard to make ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Dan Love, who flies cargo planes at night, hit the ground here on a stopover early yesterday, grabbed a bagel, and decided to swap a good day's sleep for a moment in history. "Bush won already. It's so obvious," said Love of Indianapolis, wearing a new "Sore Loserman" T-shirt outside the Supreme Court. "I can't believe it's taking this long." On Duval Street, which separates the court from the Capitol, it was drive-by democracy. The election tornado that has caromed across the state -- sucking energy from some places, strangely ignoring others -- had spun again. ...

G. W. Bush NationWide Rallies This election will not be stolen! We stand up and REFUSE to let Al Gore and his thugs from the DNC steal this election! This current administration will do ANYTHING to keep the power it has wielded over the U.S. for the last 8 years. We say enough is enough and we will not sit idly by while you corrupt and pervert our democracy to win an election, Mr. Gore!! This Saturday Conservatives will stand up to be seen and heard! Contact us if your city is not shown. Be sure to suggest a SPECIFIC, ...

Monday night football just discussed the redskins games before the election. It seems when the redskins win the game before an election, the incumbent wins the election. When they lose, incumbent loses.

Cops Under Investigation After Killing Man During Raid On Wrong House Date: 10/05/00 Two officers from the Lebanon Police Department are under investigation after shooting and killing a man in his home Wednesday night. Police went to the home at 70 Joseph Street to serve a search warrant for drugs, but it was the wrong house. Five officers burst through the front door shortly after 10 p.m. Police said the victim, John Adams, 62, fired at police. Police returned shots. Lebanon's police chief said a mistake had been made. The officers raided the correct address according to the search warrant, ...

Retired Gen. William W. Quinn Dies WASHINGTON (AP) -- William W. ''Buffalo Bill'' Quinn, a retired Army lieutenant general who served in two wars and played a role in the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, died early Monday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Quinn, who lived in Arlington, Va., died of congestive heart failure. He was 92. During World War II, he served as an intelligence officer in Europe, where he was responsible for gathering and coordinating information for the invasion of southern France on Aug. 15, 1944. The landing by U.S. and French troops was met ...

NASHVILLE -- Presidential candidates can usually count on the support of their home states, but it may not be that easy for Al Gore. Although the former U.S. representative and senator has never lost an election in Tennessee, his victory margins have been dwindling -- to less than 2 percentage points in 1996 as President Clinton's vice presidential running mate. And Democrat Gore's battle for the presidency against his Republican rival, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, is being fought just as hard in Tennessee as in many other states. One main reason: Tennessee voters have grown progressively more conservative, ...

Protesters fear income tax will target them next Echoing the shrieking protest convoy of the last time an income tax was seriously discussed in the General Assembly, tax opponents circled Legislative Plaza yesterday in their cars, blaring on their horns in a persistent wail that could be heard at the constantly bustling entrances of the Capitol. Several of the cars were decked out with signs like "Ax the Taxers." The protest came from folks who believed the state might pass a 5% income tax on the state's wealthiest households. Betty Kaufman, a Nashville legal secretary who has lived in Tennessee ...

Goverment decides appropriate ways to address questions of sexuality If your child decides he might be homosexual and you take him to a psychiatrist for help, you could lose that child to the DSS. We’ve witnessed cases where DSS became involved with families because there was conflict between the parents and adolescents who wanted to be free to become active in the gay lifestyle at the ages of thirteen and fourteen. There were no beatings or physical assaults, but the fact that the parents didn’t accept their children’s wishes and "support" them provided grounds for DSS to remove the children ...

NEW YORK –– Rep. Rick Lazio has only been a Senate candidate for two weeks, but he's holding steady against Hillary Rodham Clinton in the polls. Clinton leads Lazio 46 to 42 percent, with a 3-point margin of error, in a poll commissioned by the Daily News and the cable station NY1. The poll was conducted by phone last week by the firm of Blum & Weprin among 1,001 registered voters. Voters are already expressing as much support for the Republican Party's new candidate as they did for the previous candidate, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Lazio, a Long Island congressman, replaced ...

1996 Fund-Raising Missteps Create Woes This Year for Gore Vice President Gore would have an easier time running for president in 2000 if he didn't have to contend with the fallout from his campaign four years ago: images of the vice president among saffron-robed monks at a Buddhist temple fund-raiser, or proclaiming that "no controlling legal authority" prevented his dialing for dollars from the West Wing. Gore's primary opponent, former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, has begun to probe those four-year-old wounds--and to warn that worse will come from the GOP if Gore wins the Democratic nomination. Indeed, Arizona ...

WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. (AP) -- Jim Varney, the rubbernecked comic who portrayed his rube character ``Ernest'' from hundreds of television commercials to a series of hit movies, died Thursday at his home. He was 50. Varney died of lung cancer, said his attorney Hoot Gibson. Varney became a cult figure in the 1980s in a series of regional commercials, portraying Ernest P. Worrell, a now-it-all good ol' boy whose best-known phrase was ``KnowhutImean?'' and who addressed a character known as ``Vern.'' In the commercials, he got his fingers slammed in a house window, fell off a ladder and got electrically ...