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So yesterday I talked about old habits, and in that post I bemoaned the way that I used to torture myself with Morning Joe. I was doing that very thing as I was writing Morning Coffee. Unfortunately for me, just when Politico Executive Editor Jim VandeHei came on, I turned it down because he...
If GOP candidate Joe Carr used that as an endorsement with A.) not asking the Dean or B.) making an assumption regarding something he wrote, then I would hope Tom gives him a noogie and tells him to go sit at the kiddie table where he belongs. Carr, you may remember, did this back...
Politics, for all practical purposes, is a popularity contest. Elected officials try to find a pulse of what they think their constituents want and cater to that. Right now, it is my opinion if you get out of the capitol for at least 15 minutes, it’s pretty obvious that a lot of folks are...
Both the State House and Senate are not in session today, presumably to hammer out a budget proposal that they both can live with, but I could be wrong about that. They may just be hanging out playing checkers and dominoes like the old guys that used to hang out at Midtown Billiards during...
No one does it better than Tom Humphrey. This, my friends, is what this week in Nashville is going to be about. Perhaps the most interesting pieces of the current Tennessee budget puzzle, which our fair state’s best and brightest legislators seemed utterly unable to assemble last week, involve the $341 million contingency question....
We covered this bill earlier this month. Now, apparently, it’s on it’s way back to the Senate. Here’s Tom Humphrey with the coverage: The bill leaves intact a ban on deputies raising money and engaging in political activity in support of other candidates. In pushing the amendment, Rep. Eric Swafford, R-Pikeville, said that leaves...
As Trace noted yesterday it’s budget time in Tennessee. Actually, it’s been budget time since the legislature got in session. Now that they’ve worked their way through all the “Guns in everywhere” and “Freedom from healthcare decisions” bills they’re left with that pesky budget. I’m sure this displeases many up on the hill. It’s...
Most days, I need a nap. Even thought I don’t get one. Usually it happens right around 1pm. My belly full of whatever it is I just had for lunch, my eyelids get heavy, and given the opportunity, I would totally fall asleep. Unfortunately, that opportunity doesn’t present itself all that often. Personally, I...
Since yesterday was 4/20, and apparently, no one here at STP caught that (myself included), I decided to help the whole 4/20 crowd out a little. But since the whole writing about pot thing is sooooo overdone, particularly this year, I decided to highlight the plight of the 4/20 generation by reminding everyone about...
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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