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What It’s Like to Live in a Pop Culture Landmark
dwell
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July 8, 2025
Welcome to The Trend Times, a column that explores design fads in the age of doomscrolling. Despite sitting on a quiet, residential street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Joanne Quintana’s home sees around 300 cars a day. Used as a shooting location...
‘We’ve seen an explosion in state-level anti-LGBTQ laws’
Baptist News Global
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July 8, 2025
The June Supreme Court ruling upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is a signal that more anti-LGBTQ legislation is on the way, said Orion Rummler, reporter for The 19th, an independent nonprofit news organization. “We’ve...
LGBTQ Programs at VUMC Gutted by Latest Layoffs
Nashville Scene - Tennessee
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July 7, 2025
Health programming for members of the LGBTQ community was all but destroyed when Vanderbilt University Medical Center laid off more than 600 employees in June. Now-former employee Quinn Bacon is a Vanderbilt Divinity student who ran the Trans...
Dedicated teacher, church member has died
Knox TN Today - Tennessee
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July 8, 2025
It was a classic story. Bill Young played free safety for Doug Dickey in the late 1960s while Janet Guthrie was a majorette with the Pride of the Southland Band. He majored in business, while she chose elementary education. They married in 1970,...
Game on: Fields fill for Tennessee’s 6th and 7th U.S. House seats
Tennessee Lookout
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July 8, 2025
A rush of Republicans and Democrats are likely to run for two open U.S. Congressional seats in Middle Tennessee. U.S. Rep Mark Green, a Clarksville Republican, confirmed Monday he is stepping down from his 7th Congressional District seat on July...
A look at Robin Pingeton's first 100 days as UW women's basketball coach
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin
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MADISON – Robin Pingeton needed only three words to sum up her first 100 days as Wisconsin women’s basketball coach. “On the move” Productive would be a fair word choice, too. Here is a rundown of what the Badgers have accomplished since...
US Immigration Backlog Hits All-Time High
Newsweek
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July 8, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is grappling with an unprecedented backlog of immigration cases, reaching a record 11.3 million pending applications. USCIS data from January to March shows some immigration categories experiencing...
Opinion: High taxes hobble Canadian NHL teams in race for top players
SaskToday.ca
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July 8, 2025
Canadian NHL teams face heavy tax burdens that limit their ability to compete for star players against U.S. teams with lower taxes. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman badly underestimates how much higher income taxes in Canada put Canadian teams at a...
Nashville community rallies around business after fire destroys building
WSMV 4 - Tennessee
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July 8, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Community members are offering support for Minerva Avenue, a few days after the business caught fire. While the Nashville Fire Department (NFD) has not released a cause of the fire, the business owner suspects fireworks...
Carson Hocevar trolls himself over early exit from Chicago Street Race
Sportskeeda
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July 8, 2025
Carson Hocevar took a lighthearted jab at himself for wrecking out early in the Chicago Street Race. The Spire Motorsports driver owned up to his mistake and admitted that he 'turned in too early'. Hocevar began his weekend with a brilliant...
Nashville police identify woman from 1987 'shallow graves' cold case
The Tennessean
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After nearly 40 years, Nashville Police identified one of two women found dead in shallow graves in the dirt basement of a Charlotte Avenue home. Police say Sheila Cummings, 23, was found in 1987. She was from Elgin, Illinois. The identity of the...
Looking at illegal immigration issues
Daily Gate City - Iowa
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July 8, 2025
It seems that some individuals don’t recognize the difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal immigrant. The government controls the number of legal immigrants entering our country. The controlled immigration allowed for the new...
What We Should Be Doing for the Children of the Incarcerated
Governing
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July 8, 2025
Amid growing clashes between the right and left, there is one point of agreement: The urgent need to make it easier to raise a family in America. President Donald Trump has proposed $1,000 savings accounts for every newborn. Senate Democrats are...
Immigration advocates call for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to Maryland
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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Supporters of Kilmar Abrego Garcia rallied Monday as a judge in Maryland heard arguments over whether the Salvadoran native should be returned to the state ahead of his trial on federal human smuggling charges in Tennessee. The hearing comes amid...
Gender-affirming care is a medical issue, not a political one | Letter
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Ohio
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The June 19 Enquirer article, "Supreme Court upholds trans care ban," includes a very thought-provoking statement from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts said that "it is his understanding that the Constitution leaves that...
LGBTQ Tennesseans are fleeing the state. Hear from those who chose to stay
WPLN - Tennessee
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July 7, 2025
Nashville Pride FestivalThe crowd at Nashville's annual Pride parade. The last few years of anti-LGBTQ legislation passed in Tennessee has life-long natives leaving their home state for bluer pastures. The Biden administration had attempted to...
Memphis girl rescued from deadly Texas flooding
FOX 13 - Tennessee
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Memphis teenager escaped deadly flooding in Texas. As of Monday, crews had found 75 bodies in Kerr County, Texas. Among the deceased are at least 27 children. But 14-year-old Mary Steele, who attends Hutchinson School in...
Musk to ship overseas power plant to Memphis to energize Colossus
Action News 5 - Tennessee
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July 8, 2025
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The world’s richest man confirmed he’s shipping an entire power plant across the globe to Memphis. Elon Musk says it takes too long to build a facility in the U.S., so he’s fast-tracking the project to power up his...
State anti-DEI law leads Shelby Co., City of Memphis to end minority business programs
Action News 5 - Tennessee
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July 8, 2025
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The City of Memphis and Shelby County Government have ended their Minority Women Enterprise programs. On July 1, a state law went into effect dismantling DEI departments. 40% of all U.S. businesses are women-owned, which is...
Discover 8 Eddie Floyd Songs That Define Memphis Soul.
ThyBlackMan
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July 8, 2025
Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry 1 (ThyBlackMan.com) When people talk about the architects of Southern soul, names like Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam & Dave usually come up first. But leaving out Eddie Floyd means missing one of Stax...