TN Progressive

• What does the Texas ACA Ruling Mean? (TN Citizen Action)
• Protect the Military Lending Act (TN Citizen Action)
• Mulvaney’s Bad Move (TN Citizen Action)
• When and How is Still in Question...No Longer IF (RoaneViews)
• SMACK DOWN! (TN Citizen Action)
• Ground Water Monitoring Shows Increase in TVA Coal Ash Toxic Elements (RoaneViews)
• Trump's Attorney Will Serve Three Years in Jail...Apologizes to the People of United States (RoaneViews)
• TVA Continues to Shirk Duty and Break Promises (RoaneViews)
• An Open Letter to My City Councilman (Vibinc)
• Royal Oaks Golf Course closing (BlountViews)
• Analyzing Provisional Ballots from November (Vibinc)
• Memphis Needs a New Charter Commission (Vibinc)

TN Politics

• It's Intraparty-Squabbling Season for Tennessee Democrats (Nashville Scene)
• Watch This Christmas Tree Burn (Nashville Scene)
• Vanderbilt poll finds strong support for Gov.-elect Lee (TN Journal)
• Apple Music to Open Wedgewood-Houston Office (Nashville Scene)
• Ag tech company Indigo bringing 700 jobs to Memphis (TN Journal)
• Rose names former Rep. Hilleary as chief of staff (TN Journal)
• The Conversation We're Not Yet Having About Tennessee's Death Penalty (Nashville Scene)
• Michelle Obama Will Close Book Tour at the Ryman (Nashville Scene)
• Nashville Planned Parenthood 'Temporarily' Suspends Abortion Services (Nashville Scene)
• Lee names 2 new Cabinet members, keeps 2 others (TN Journal)
• Sheriff Jeff Long to be named Lee’s safety commissioner (TN Journal)
• Internal poll finds Alexander with 65% approval rating among Republicans (TN Journal)

Knox TN Today

• Change Center sets grand-opening schedule (Knox TN Today)
• The ‘Closet’ closes (Knox TN Today)
• Timeless music graces St. John’s Cathedral candlelight concert (Knox TN Today)
• Candlelight service (Knox TN Today)
• Community braces for St. Mary’s closing   (Knox TN Today)
• Time for festive fun with lights, bikes and birds (Knox TN Today)
• Knoxville Irish Society gets Gaelic good will going (Knox TN Today)
• Deadline nears for Dogwood’s House & Garden Show (Knox TN Today)
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• Fugate gets Claude C. Myers award (Knox TN Today)
• Parkinson’s hasn’t beaten spirit of Phill Bradbury (Knox TN Today)
• The Christmas Spirit (Knox TN Today)

Local TV News

• Thousands of wreaths placed at graves in Knoxville as part of Wreaths Across America - WATE 6 On Your Side (WATE)
• 2 arrested after firing shots during police pursuit in Campbell County - WATE 6 On Your Side (WATE)
• Disney actor accused of enticing minor online, sending pornographic photos - WATE 6 On Your Side (WATE)
• Family and KPD continue search for information in 2016 cold case (WBIR)
• Ten West TN deer test positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in prelim tests, TWRA enacts response plan (WBIR)
• Mom accepts UT diploma of son who died in boxing tournament (WBIR)
• Brother in Air Force surprises sister graduating from UT (WBIR)
• 10 About Town: December 13 - 16, 2018 (WBIR)
• AED bill inspired by Maryville boy's death passed in U.S. House (WBIR)
• Missing fisherman's body found in Douglas Lake - WATE 6 On Your Side (WATE)
• East Tenn. contractor takes customer's money, doesn't finish driveway - WATE 6 On Your Side (WATE)
• Interactive map shows fastest growing areas in Tennessee - WATE 6 On Your Side (WATE)

News Sentinel

• KCSO task force nabs two Philly men in baby formula scheme, recover more than $35K (KNS News)
• Charlie Daniel cartoons - December 2018 (KNS Opinion)
• 51-point buck bagged in Illinois may beat out Tennessee hunter's national title (KNS News)
• Maryville man, director of traveling softball program, charged with statutory rape (KNS News)
• New apartments coming to South Knox (KNS Business)
• Watch as Air Force brother surprises sister at UT college graduation (KNS News)
• Three Rivers Market in Knoxville's Happy Holler (KNS Business)
• UT's commencement: A cancer patient honored, a military homecoming, and a posthumous degree (KNS News)
• Reward increases to $23,400 for information leading to suspect in KPD officer's assault (KNS News)
• I am a refugee who made a successful life in Tennessee. America shouldn't shut out others like me. | Opinion (KNS Opinion)
• City Hall 'deceitful' in column about Steve King case | Opinion (KNS Opinion)
• December political cartoons from the USA TODAY Network (KNS Opinion)
• Fill your stocking with work from local artisans (KNS Business)
• Loudon County school board met in dark to decide Sunshine policy, lawsuit claims (KNS News)

State News

• Kid Rock joins Leiper's Fork Christmas Parade (Tennessean)
• Memphis basketball got what it needed through 10 games. Here's why (Commercial Appeal)
• Gardenhire blasts Hamilton County school board over confidential settlements in Ooltewah rape cases - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
• Chattanooga to launch Fish Lake Chick, hoping to follow Rhea County's success - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
• Sunday alcohol sales in Walker County begin Dec. 30 - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
• Neediest Cases helps woman power on through Family Promise - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
• Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace 'not happy' about Suns-Wizards-Grizzlies trade fiasco (Commercial Appeal)
• Executives who oversaw city's assisted living center arrested for theft (Tennessean)
• Memphis-UT didn't end the way Tigers fans wanted, but the roar (and the boos) returned to FedEx Forum (Commercial Appeal)
• Weathersbee: If Vance Middle's fate is a sign, getting neighborhoods to close schools may be a tough sell (Commercial Appeal)
• Judge: Defense can use Daniel Hambrick's criminal history in homicide case against officer (Tennessean)
• Democratic lawmakers call on Gov. Haslam to grant Cyntoia Brown clemency (Tennessean)

Local .GOV

• U.S. Mayors meet in Nashville to Address the Opioid Crisis (Knoxville)
• Winter Work: How Traffic Engineering Decks City Streets with Holiday Decorations (Knoxville)
• Checking in on the North Central Street Project (Knoxville)
• Small Aquarium Dumps Result in Truckloads of Invasive Weeds Pulled from Fountain City Lake (Knoxville)
• KFD Recruits Get 'Live Burn' Training Prior to Demolition of Vacant Buildings (Knoxville)
• Kallet Stays Busy, Engaged as Poet Laureate (Knoxville)

• Plumb Creek Park up above and up close

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• Free flu shots available Dec. 5 at the Knox County Health Department (Knox County)
• Knox County to host 20th Annual Holiday Festival of Lights (Knox County)
• KCHD releases status report on sexually transmitted infections (Knox County)
• Second annual observation of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day planned (Knox County)
• Restrooms Closing for the Winter (Knox County)

Wire Reports

• Former fossil fuels lobbyist to head interior department as Zinke exits - The Guardian (US News)
• Judge Reed O'Connor's Obamacare ruling poses new problems for GOP - Washington Times (US News)
• Qatar Petroleum looks to invest $20bn in US - Al Jazeera English (Business)
• GOP set for blame over shutdown | TheHill - The Hill (US News)
• Behind the scenes of Trump's hasty chief of staff pick - NBC News (US News)
• Economic Calendar - Top 5 Things to Watch This Week - Investing.com (Business)
• Family Of Migrant Girl Disputes U.S. Officials' Story Of Her Death - HuffPost (US News)
• ‘He would have given up a very valuable appendage to get that job’ - POLITICO (US News)
• The Largest Known Diamond in North America Has Been Found Below Canada's Arctic - ScienceAlert (Business)
• The Special Counsel Is Fighting a Witness in Court. Who Is It? - The New York Times (US News)
• T-Mobile and Sprint merger deal approval reportedly hinged on ditching Huawei's technology - gizmochina (Business)
• Johnson & Johnson Stock Plummets After Report Claims Company Knew About Asbestos In Its Baby Powder - LEX18 Lexington KY News (Business)
• Boeing delivers its first aircraft from Chinese completion centre | International Flight Network - International Flight Network (Business)
• Trump's legal woes worsen | TheHill - The Hill (US News)
• Man's Fall From Cruise Ship 'Was an Intentional Act' - Newser (Business)