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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...
Gail Kerr has seen Ron Ramsey’s budget and she’s not too happy. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is hanging his chance to be governor on two specific promises, one “to give the boot” to Washington and the other to slash state government. The first one seems ridiculous after Tennessee’s disastrous flood. The second might very...
What an eventful 24 hours it’s been. Yesterday some good friends got married, which was followed by some frivolity at the expense of our livers, with the musical stylings of Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround carrying us forward into the wee hours of the afternoon. After which, we scattered, covered, smothered, and chunked our...
Yeah, I know the Ides of March aren’t for another 15 days. What of it? I can still sound a warning can’t I? Well, as I’m not a soothsayer, mostly because I’m not entirely sure what it would take to say a sooth, I guess I won’t be sounding a warning of impending death...
Troubling times call for bold initiatives. This just might qualify. Mayor Karl Dean and a task force released a report Monday with 30 recommendations for reducing poverty, with a goal of cutting the rate in half by 2020. The United States Census Bureau put the city’s poverty rate in 2008 at 16.9 percent, up...
The Responsibility Of Nashville Political Reporters
There is a lot of online banter this week about Clint Brewer becoming the new political editor of the Tennessean. After leaving The City Paper, Brewer spent more than a year at the Tennessee Center for Policy Research before taking this latest gig. There has been a lot of pontificating regarding his joining the...
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