Year: 2023

  • Tesla Model Y: What I learned in three years of ownership

    Tesla Model Y: What I learned in three years of ownership

    I bought a Tesla Model Y Long Range, my first electric car, in the midst of the Pandemic sight-unseen. No test drive. No look at a friend’s car. Never sat in a Tesla or electric car of any kind. I’ve learned a lot since then. Here is what I know after three years of ownership…

  • More than 340 books banned in Tennessee public schools

    More than 340 books banned in Tennessee public schools

    (Update: More than 1,100 books have been banned by Tennessee school systems in the first half of the 2024-2025 school year.) Tennessee ranks No. 4 in the number of books banned by school districts with more than than 340. The majority of the school book bans have happened in the Collierville School District. That’s from…

  • The Tennessee Three: Petty, partisan and profoundly racist saga

    The Tennessee Three: Petty, partisan and profoundly racist saga

    The question I have is was it after the fourth or fifth round at the Good Ole’ Boys Bar did it begin to sound like a good idea to bring expulsion resolutions against two young black Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson and one of the few women in the Legislature, Democrat Gloria Johnson.…