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If there is one thing that Rep. Mike Turner does well is that he will answer questions, he doesn’t alienate the progressive blogging community and, as Aunt B. says, he tells it like it is. In a post at Tiny Cat Pants, there is a wonderful discussion going on between Betsy and Turner in...
Mythical Contingency Funds About to Rain on Our Parade If the budget process this year in the Tennessee State Legislature hasn’t already been contentious enough, there’s a chance it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Tom Humphrey reports that the $341m in “contingency funds” from the Federal Government, that every current budget...
Both democratic state party leaders have taken to the deadwood of the Tennessean to discuss their problems with the last-minute GOP introduced budget. The editorial says basically that this isn’t a game and talks about state employees with a breakdown of former budgets of the past few years. Here’s what real belt-tightening looks like:...
We talk about Twitter quite a bit here on STP. As we all live in west Tennessee, it’s an easy way to follow not only breaking news such as the flooding from earlier this month, but what’s going on in politics. When we don’t have time (as we all work day jobs) to watch...
That is Rep. Mike Turner up to his neck in this rescue effort.
It’s been five days since the rain came. In part of this state, you wouldn’t know that Nashville, Dyersburg, Clarksville, Cheatham County and other smaller places are still underwater. The rivers and creeks are receding but the damage in this state in insurmountable. Nashville alone is looking at $1 billion dollars in damage. For...
The Tennessee House Employee Affairs Subcommittee is set to met tomorrow for discussion on the Equal Pay Equal Work bill. Sponsored by Rep. Mike Turner, the bill seeks to increase penalties for not giving everyone the same rate of pay based on gender. Tip of the hat to Bianca Phillips at the Memphis Flyer....
The Real Consequences Of Tennessee’s Budget On Tennesseans
It’s budget time in Tennessee. Yeah, we have a battle for a new state song (shouldn’t we just set up a state radio station and add a song once a year because this always seems to be something we are talking about in the legislature.) This, my friends, is when things get ticky, bipartisanship...
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