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Morning Coffee – Presenting Your New Republican Overlords – Pre-Legislative Session Edition

December 28, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Presenting Your New Republican Overlords – Pre-Legislative Session Edition

The upcoming session of the Tennessee General Assembly begins in just 15 days. Between now and then there will likely be a whole bunch of nothing news wise, except for the TNDP Chair election which is about as exciting as watching socks dry in the rain (no offense guys, but seriously). Considering the huge...

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Morning Coffee – Surrender? No Surrender? Edition

December 20, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Surrender? No Surrender? Edition

In this season of giving, I’ve decided that a current events version of “The Night Before Christmas” is in order. To that end, I offer the following… Twas the week before Christmas and all through the County, Leaders in the east were assessing their bounty, The Legislature won by the right wing with care,...

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Morning Coffee – Something in the Air Edition

December 2, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Something in the Air Edition

I don’t really have a lot to say this morning. I think I said myself out yesterday. Speaking of yesterday, the “sense of the commission” resolution on consolidation passed 6-3-1. Two commissioners weren’t in attendance at the time of the vote. The matter comes up again on Monday. Send your Commissioner an email in...

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Morning Coffee – Sharpen Your Pitchforks Edition

December 1, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Sharpen Your Pitchforks Edition

Yeah, I know. You probably thought the pitchfork sharpening season ended with the November 2nd elections. I don’t think you could have been more wrong. We live in a 24/7/365 pitchfork readiness environment now and that’s not going to change until people start feeling more certain about their economic futures. The harsh reality is...

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Morning Coffee – Post-Turkey Day Edition

November 29, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Post-Turkey Day Edition

Now that the holiday that officially sanctions gluttony is over, we can get down to really important things, like buying stuff for Christmas. Retailers are licking their chops as we speak. Black Friday and Cyber Monday will ultimately give way to “Whoopsie Wednesday” (12/22) and “I can’t find anything I want Friday” (12/24). As...

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Morning Coffee – The Tale of Two Returns Edition UPDATED

November 9, 2010
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Morning Coffee – The Tale of Two Returns Edition UPDATED

For reasons I’m not so sure about, I’ve been looking at the media page on HuffPo a lot over the past several days. In the process of doing this, I realized that last night marked the return of Conan O’Brien to late-night television after a long and winding journey. I don’t really watch late-night...

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Morning Coffee – Speaker Fight

November 8, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Speaker Fight

Just because the elections are over doesn’t mean all is lost for political junkies like myself. Even though my junkiness hasn’t been expressed to it’s fullest potential as of late, nothing gets my motor running quite like a power struggle, and that’s exactly what we seem to have in the wake of the Republican...

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Morning Coffee – Mock Trial Edition

November 5, 2010
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Morning Coffee – Mock Trial Edition

Much to the dismay of my free time, back in the Spring I decided to audition for the University of Memphis Mock Trial Team. This afternoon, after having access to this year’s case for just over 2 months, the team heads off the Saint Louis for our first competition. I don’t really know what...

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Where Do We Go From Here?

November 3, 2010
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Where Do We Go From Here?

In the wake of the massive losses both in the state and federal legislative branches last night, Tennessee Democrats might ask themselves, Where do we go from here? That, my friends, is the question of the next several months. There will be plenty of time to point fingers and blame-storm. I’m sure there’s quite...

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The Aftermath of August

October 26, 2010
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The Aftermath of August

Election day is just a week away, and campaigns all over the state are ramping up their efforts to get voters to the polls. This isn’t unusual, in fact it happens every election cycle. What is unusual is that several campaigns have reported reluctance by some voters to participate in early voting here in...

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