Tents and other “living quarters” would not be allowed on public spaces, under a bill advancing at the Capitol aimed at the Occupy Nashville protest – whose members have been camped on War Memorial…
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Civil Liberties
Even though the current system has been ruled constitutional, many lawmakers have trouble getting over the nagging feeling that it really doesn’t gel with Tennessee’s governing document. And they doubt voters approve either.
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On a day when the father of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man brutally murdered in 1998, visits Nashville to lament bills seen as hostile to homosexuals, the governor says there are “better things for us to focus on this year” than legislation targeting gays.
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In general, most of the state’s 46,000 employees are not subject to mandatory urine sampling, even though private employers are encouraged to drug test their employees in the name of improving safety and spurring productivity.
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The Republican state representative from Kingsport says he’ll push the House Gov-Ops committee to subpoena investigation records into the legislative activities of he and another lawmaker.
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Republicans cleaned a lot of bills off their plate in their first year controlling the General Assembly and the governor’s office, but they built up a pile of bills they were saving for later.…
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Newsletter from the Tennessee Firearms Association; Dec. 27, 2011:
For years, Republican leadership in the State of Tennessee has touted the Republican party in general as the best friend of Tennessee firearms owners, hunters,…
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A prominent Knoxville criminal court judge’s drug-fueled ethical meltdown and subsequent professional downfall could send political and policy aftershocks beyond East Tennessee.
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The Mississippi governor said companies had told him that the climate for “lawsuit abuse” in different states was a factor in their decisions on relocation and plant closures. “It was killing us on getting companies to come to our state,” Barbour said at a National Governors Association regional summit in Nashville Monday.
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Hours before the Haslam administration announced it would ask District Attorney Torry Johnson to dismiss charges against the Occupy Nashville protesters at War Memorial Plaza, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey expressed a get-tough stand.
“I…
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Tennessee Speaker of the House Beth Harwell immediately burst out laughing Thursday when asked point blank, “Do you want to run for Congress against Jim Cooper?”
“I don’t know how this got started,” said…
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Outside the Hermitage Hotel, about a dozen demonstrators chanted, “People over profits,” and “We are the 99 percent.” Inside, a campaign spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn confirmed that Rice was speaking at a fundraiser for the congresswoman, but no media were allowed.
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