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Humboldt and other communities have set up recovery centers in several areas to help out those folks that lost everything in this month’s floods and tornadoes. Disaster Recovery Centers offer help to people affected by this month’s severe storms and flooding. Other centers in West Tennessee are at the Dyersburg Mall, Gibson County Fairgrounds,...
We’ve been talking a lot about the State Budget here for the past several days. Honestly, it should be on the minds of people all across the state. With revenues down, and certain elements in the legislature demanding that no steps, even when reasonable, be made to enhance state revenues, we’re left with two...
The Commercial Appeal has a story today on how farmer in west Tennessee have been impacted by this month’s flood. I mentioned in another post today of speaking to man that owns a grain mill who said that things were pretty bad. The story breaks down the numbers. Nearly 40,000 acres are under water...
House Democratic Caucus Chair, Mike Turner has sponsored a resolution urging the state’s congressional delegation to “initiate investigative hearings on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers relative to water releases from dams serving Middle Tennessee during recent flooding and maintenance of dams and levees. The resolution passed unanimously in Committee, and will be on the...
While the efforts in the Gulf are currently focused on stopping the thousands of barrels of oil being released into the environment daily, eventually, the massive cleanup effort is going to be the long-term focus. Chemical dispersants have serious long-term environmental questions, particularly with a spill this large. So the question becomes, how can...
Yesterday we wrote about some of the unintended consequences of the new Arizona immigration legislation. As with just about every piece of legislation, particularly one that is founded on an emotional reaction rather than a rational response to a problem, there are more unintended consequences than originally thought. One of those consequences is the...