Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

Nancy Hauskins with Inside Politics interviewed Sen. Mae Beavers (R-17th) on the budget and the current legislative session. In this video clip (1:00), Beavers cites the jobs created from the federal stimulus bill her party voted against that will directly benefit her constituents. She also talks ab...

By Sikivu HutchinsonGuest Contributor In their landmark 1982 anthology on Black feminism, Gloria Hull, Barbara Smith and Patricia Bell Scott proclaimed that “all the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave.�  Perhaps no pioneering activist more fervently embodied the s...

Here is the video I shared with you on today’s Morning Browser that was posted on YouTube last night by members of the United Mountain Defense. As I mentioned on the show, the video shows an aggressive cigar smoking Roane County Police Officer refusing to accept a valid form of government issu...

View Larger Map Here is a map of ten new bridge reconstruction projects in Tennessee funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Work begins this month. The initial spending through TDOT favors Republican districts 2 to 1. Carroll County - Westport Road Bridges over the Big Sandy R...

Reuters: U.S. charities fear proposed tax law change  (HT: Victor Claar) ATLANTA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Proposed tax law changes in President Barack Obama's budget could hit charities hard even as demand for their services rises due to the worst recession in decades, U.S. charitable groups wa...

Highway to hell revisited By Christopher Caldwell Published: February 27 2009 19:19 | Last updated: February 27 2009 19:19 function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating...

A proposal by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to levy a 5 percent surcharge tax on sugar-laden snacks and beverages, pitched by his office as “a critical first step in discouraging the consumption of these empty calories,” has raised again some basic questions about the wisdom and p...

Google is siding with the European Commission in its disapproval of Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Google says that Microsoft has an unfair advantage in the browser market as a result of this practice. But will such a stance come back to bite Google in the butt? In 2007, Google r...

Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and wo...