Legislation to prohibit Tennessee teachers from engaging in political campaigning during work hours is headed to the governor. The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Joey Hensley, of Hohenwald, was approved 27-6 in the Senate on Wednesday. The companion bill passed…
Read MoreDay: April 9, 2015
GOP Legislators Abandon “Compassionate” Medical Marijuana Legislation
A Republican-backed effort to legalize marijuana for limited medicinal purposes in Tennessee is officially dead for the year. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee decided to delay action on the proposal from Nashville GOP Sen. Steve Dickerson until 2016. The…
Read MoreWill Tennessee Secede Again?
Is it possible for the United States to break up, either de facto or formally? I wonder. The country is not a happy place. Today it is more consciously and resentfully divided, politically, regionally, racially and by sex and class…
Read MoreWhat To Do With Pregnant Meth Addicts?
Tennessee lawmakers want to expand a law created amid controversy last year that allows women to be criminally charged for harming their newborns by abusing pain pills during pregnancy. Confronting a growing wave of babies born to addicted mothers, the…
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