Category: State Politics
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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…
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And I Woulda Gotten Away With It Too…
if it hadn’t been for me meddlin’ with interns As Steffens and and Aunt B have already discussed, Former State Senator Paul Stanley’s attempts to shift blame, as if he were some innocent victim is not only revisionist history, but ignores a pattern of behavior that the former State Senator has engaged in. Remember this…
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This Won’t Be Pretty – Redistricting Edition
Even though the State Legislature probably won’t tackle redistricting until next year, right now is the time to start thinking about it. Wednesday night, my buddy and blogfather, Leftwingcracker and I talked to the Germantown Democratic Club about this and other topics. As the CA and other outlets reported last week, Shelby County, and Memphis…
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Tennessee State of the State
I didn’t watch Bill Haslam’s first State of the State Address Monday, but I read it, using an internal Dana Carvey voice. I invite you to do the same, though you likely won’t learn much. Haslam talked about the budget, and his legislative agenda, and how things are tough and all that. From a budget…
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Sunshine Week
It’s Sunshine Week, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the weather, which is gorgeous by the way. No, Sunshine Week is a week dedicated to openness and transparency in Government, something that all too often is given lip service, but not actually followed through with. If the ability of the people, to be…
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Charter School Shenanigans
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam likes Charter Schools. In fact, he likes them so much that he wants to remove any caps on the number that can be chartered in the state and make sure locals have no say in the matter if they don’t want them. Have some chocolate pie, it’ll make you feel better.…