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Four days after the election and I’m still not sure what to think of the results here in Shelby County. This is partially because the Election Commission hasn’t released the entire participating voter list yet, and partially because the majority of the “burn down the village” analysis directed at the local Democratic Party has...
Faint Gray Lines at Your Liberal Friends gives props to Rep. Jeanne Richardson for standing up for women’s reproductive rights last week and is keeping her eye on Democrats who voted for Matthew Hill’s fiasco of a bill last week. Maybe access to affordable contraception is irrelevant or unimportant to the folks in power...
From Think Progress. Last night, the Tennessee House of Representatives approved HB 2681, a measure that would prohibit insurers from offering abortion services within the exchange and could possibly deny coverage to common contraceptives. Sponsors of the abortion measure maintained that their bill would only prohibit tax dollars from funding abortions in the exchange,...
Jeff Woods covered the Guns in Bars battle at the City Paper. The whole story is a great read but I pulled this quote out because this particular issue isn’t getting as much play at the Guns in Bars issue is. (I think it’s interesting that the Opryland Hotel has signs up to tourists...
The question is why did he use the legislature to go up against his former country-singing wife. Some good questions were asked. Betsy Phillips breaks it down for us. What he ended up testifying about, however, is how he had been vilified in the media, how his then-wife and her lawyer “filed false and...