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November 5th, 2009
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Author: To mark the Flyer’s 20th anniversary, we’re looking back at stories from our first two decades.
by Chris Herrington
[image-1] November 7, 2000, the day of the Bush-Gore presidential election, was one of the newsiest days during the Flyer’s 20 years-and-counting, and we had it covered in our November 9th issue, with senior editor Jackson Baker at Al Gore headquarters in Nashville and staff writers Rebekah Gleaves (Nashville) and Ashley Fantz (Bush headquarters in Austin) also on the scene. Reporting on “the closest presidential election in American political history,” Baker described the “war whoops” heard when the television networks…
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by Chris Davis
To mark the Flyer’s 20th anniversary, we’re looking back at stories from our first two decades. It’s Halloween, the season when we free our inner ghouls. But when Flyer contributor Matt Hanks wrote about a similar phenomenon in October 1997, pagan traditions had nothing to do with it. In an article titled “Rave On,” Hanks took a sympathetic look at rave culture in Memphis. Remember raves? They were those massive parties where youngsters would swallow Ecstasy, suck on pacifiers, dance…
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To mark the Flyer’s 20th anniversary, we’re looking back at stories from our first two decades.
by Jackson Baker
[image-1] Some 12 years ago, the relations between city and county government, and between the officials who headed them, were being strained to the breaking point. As we detailed in our October 16, 1997, and October 23, 1997, issues, Memphis mayor Willie Herenton and Shelby County mayor Jim Rout were proceeding in opposite directions regarding the then raging “Toy Town” controversy. That term referred to legislation which had been slipped through that year’s session of the Tennessee General Assembly enabling…
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To mark the Flyer’s 20th anniversary, we’re looking back at stories from our first two decades.
by John Branston
Cars are the lifeblood of America. Car factories in Spring Hill and Smyrna put Tennessee in the middle of the Southern car-manufacturing industry that helped depress Detroit and the industrial Midwest. And car advertising helped newspapers, including this one, get off the ground, prosper, and survive the current recession. So let’s hear it for the car biz. In the fall of 1995, the Flyer proudly displayed two full pages of car ads, which was something of a catch at the…
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