Amazon is buying trucks. They’ve created franchises, districts. You may have read about the huge increase in distribution centers. There are seven distribution centers in Tennessee with 1,000 employees. When Amazon cranks up,...
Read MoreYou put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about. … Tennessee’s Sen. Marsha Blackburn tried to do the hokey pokey during the Capitol Hill riot. First, she...
Read MoreDuring previous sessions of the legislature, I singled out some members of the Krazy Kaucus. This session some of them are gone: Timothy Hill, his brother Matthew, known collectively as “The Hillbillies,” and Micah Van Huss. But...
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Members of the General Assembly gather today for opening session and one suspects the main topic...
Read MoreI don’t know if we can fully appreciate the long-term impact the past year will have on the next generation. The havoc that the pandemic has wrought on education will not be obvious for some time. The closest thing to such...
Read MoreGov. Bill Lee gets by with a little help from his friends. He passes out patronage like a Chicago alderman, especially to former legislators. We’ll start with those on the way in and move on to those who are out. Three...
Read MoreYou say you don’t want to wear a mask. I know, you can find a dozen reasons on the internet not to do it. So, if you want to kill your grandmother it’s your business. Chances are that if you won’t wear a mask you won’t be...
Read MoreIn the next election cycle, one suspects how governors have handled the COVID-19 outbreak in their state will be a major issue. State leadership has been on the front lines of the pandemic, and the ways in which states have...
Read MoreI saw a story recently about the Sequoyah Hills house once owned by the late UT football coach Bowden Wyatt being for sale and it prompted a memory. One of my best friends grew up in Sequoyah Hills on the same street. In those...
Read MoreTop Democrats and Republicans and most political pundits agree, you don’t have the right to vote for your favorite candidate – unless that candidate is a Democrat or a Republican. If you find the presidential candidates put up...
Read MoreDemocrats can be happy that they won the battle for the presidency, but it will be a little while before they realize they lost the war. They are screwed for the next decade. Once they get over Trump Derangement Syndrome they...
Read MoreEvery election season I like to look up and read again excerpts of the most famous speech never given. It was allegedly used in a 1950 Democratic primary in the Florida panhandle. Its origin has been lost in the sands of time...
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