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  • Is HB0600 The Worst Bill of 2011 Session?

    Possibly. For those of you who weren’t following along HB0600 was drafted just days after the introduction of Nashville’s CAN DO ordinance, an ordinance that requires vendors who contract into business with the city to follow rules against GLBT workplace discrimination. The point of HB0600 is to roll back any such local ordinances and make…

  • Checking Their Work

    The Tennessee General Assembly adjourned for the year this weekend. In the process of this session, there have been a lot of bills that brought a lot of attention, and many many more that got almost none. What’s more, we haven’t seen the end of this session yet, as all the bills that were passed…

  • Flood or No Flood, The World Keeps Turning

    This may sound a bit callous or cold, but it is a harsh reality: The world doesn’t stop just because we’re staring down the barrel of a disaster. Lots of things are going on across the state and the nation, and even though it’s hard to keep up with everything with all the flood information,…

  • Can You Still Sing Rocky Top,

    When All the Rocks on Top are Gone? That’s a question folks on the east side of Tennessee have been asking themselves for a long long time. While surface mining may not dominate the landscape as it does in Kentucky and West Virginia, there are a few sites here, and the potential for quite a…