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Position History
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Let the People Vote: Courthouse Office Abuses Cry for Reform, But Abolishing Elections Isn't the Answer
Published 06/19/2013 at 10:49 a.m.
I have always opposed taking away the people’s right to vote and have long advocated that Tennessee elect more people to office—a state attorney general and school superintendents, for example.
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What Are Core Values? We Face a Battle Over the Future of Education in Tennessee
Updated 06/13/2013 at 11:52 a.m.
Gov. Bill Haslam’s education reforms hit a couple of speed bumps this past legislative session, but his reforms may hit a brick wall come next session.
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It's About Fairness: Collecting Sales Tax From Everybody Should Mean a Tax Cut for the Rest of Us
Published 06/05/2013 at 12:47 p.m. 1 Comment
It’s not an Internet tax, dammit, no matter how many times lazy headline writers call it that.
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Megasite Aftermath: Effort Now is to Stop the Intermodal in New Market with Focus on County Government
Published 05/29/2013 at 11:16 a.m. 1 Comment
Property owners in New Market opposed to Norfolk Southern’s plan to build a transportation transfer point, where trailer trucks will gather to be loaded and unloaded off trains, have hired the attorney that led the fight that stopped a proposed ...
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Ghostbuster! If You're a Rich Republican Who Needs Help, Who Ya' Gonna Call?
Published 05/15/2013 at 10:25 a.m.
Well, the Ghostbuster for millionaire Republicans is Tom Ingram.
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One Party is No Party: Haslam, Ramsey, Harwell Either Unite or Lose Control of State Government
Published 05/08/2013 at 11:06 a.m.
One-party rule means no-party rule.
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Train Wreck: You Can't Graft Obamacare onto Existing Business Models
Published 05/01/2013 at 10:24 a.m.
Politico reported last week that the Congressional leadership is having secret talks about how to exempt Capitol Hill staffers from the insurance exchanges required under the Affordable Care Act—aka Obamacare.
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Shock and Awe: Knoxville Hasn't Been This Shocked Since the Butcher Banks Closed
Published 04/24/2013 at 12:05 p.m.
When word hit news websites last week that the FBI had staged a shock-and-awe raid of the headquarters of Pilot Flying J, there was a common theme expressed in my round-robin of phone calls. Nothing this shocking has happened in ...
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Let's Not Do It: Killing Vouchers a Good Idea, But Not Because of Muslim Schools
Published 04/17/2013 at 10:28 a.m. 1 Comment
It finally occurred to the legislators that if you give parents in inner-city Memphis or Nashville a voucher, they may spend it at a Muslim school. They have so far been stumped: How do you allow tax money to flow ...
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Commune Update: Learning About Permaculture is Fun, But the Eating is Even Better
Published 04/10/2013 at 10:39 a.m. 2 Comments
I found it disconcerting this winter to look out my back window at the snow-covered ground and see huge heads of lettuce, cabbage, and other greens shining.





