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Category: State Politics

  • Just What Does 48′ Mean? #memflood #tnflood

    I took this picture at 2pm on Monday. According to NOAA, the river was about 42′ at that time. The river is set to crest at 48′. That would put the water up on the street behind me, covering about half of the turnaround in this picture. Based on the FEMA models, that would be…

  • Water, Water, Everywhere… UPDATED – #TNFlood

    Update: Gov. Haslam did announce a State of Emergency on April 26th, though at the time of this writing it did not appear on the main page of the TN.gov news site. The error has been noted below. In the wake of what has been called one of the most violent and deadly storms in…

  • It’s All About the Money

    Sometimes I wonder what drives people. Other times I wonder how they have any wheels at all. But most times, that driving force is very apparent through the actions of a person or group, and more often than not, their true motivation shines through. This morning the Tennessee Democratic Party is hosting a Unity Breakfast…

  • “More money is more free speech” – Really?

    Somewhere, Glen Casada is either snickering, or really dumbfounded that anyone would question that statement. More money is more free speech. That has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve heard from the failed candidate for speaker this year…and considering all he’s said, there’s some pretty stiff competition out there. It doesn’t take a…

  • Calling a Horse a Horse

    So yesterday I wrote this post about this bill that basically says to a class of people “not only will the state of Tennessee not protect you, we won’t allow our Counties and Cities to extend any kind of protection to you”. There are a lot of problems with the bill. One I addressed here…

  • “God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise”

    The creek is rising…if you consider the Mighty Mississippi a creek. Two of the areas that will be hit the hardest were hit just last year…Millington and Dyer Co. Dyer officials breeched the damn levee to prevent a bigger disaster as the Mississippi river rises. Last year, during the flooding to the north of us,…