Eco Warriors and Politics

• ABC sting busts 17 for selling booze online via social media (Tom Humphrey)
• Harwell seeks comptroller review of TNReady contract vendor Questar (Tom Humphrey)
• VP Pence again declares support for Blackburn (Tom Humphrey)
• Whiskey barrel tax exemption bill goes to the governor (Tom Humphrey)
• Bredesen: Corker ‘feels the same way I do’ — and Trump campaigning for Blackburn won’t hurt him much (Tom Humphrey)
• Legislature mandates that state health insurance cover experimental cancer treatment (Tom Humphrey)
• McCormick lets the gavel crash in Budget Sub (Tom Humphrey)
• McCormick lets the gavel crash in Budget Sub (Tom Humphrey)
• Haslam’s ‘Complete College TN Act’ flops on House floor — a second setback for governor’s higher ed agenda? (Tom Humphrey)
• Haslam’s ‘Complete College TN Act’ flops on House floor (Tom Humphrey)

Science and Stuff

• Experimental arthritis drug prevents stem cell transplant complication (Science News Daily)
• More than 1 in 20 US children and teens have anxiety or depression (Science News Daily)
• Feelings of ethical superiority can lead to workplace ostracism, social undermining (Science News Daily)
• Billions of gallons of water saved by thinning forests (Science News Daily)
• Doctors may soon be able to see a brain tumor burned away in real time (Science News Daily)
• Organoids reveal how a deadly brain cancer grows (Science News Daily)
• Planet's smallest microbes examined at nation's largest aquarium (Science News Daily)
• Blinded by the light: Climate change, the sun, and Lake Superior (Science News Daily)
• Engineers create social media infrastructure for emergency management (Science News Daily)
• New app could make cannabis use safer (Science News Daily)

• Two Things I learned Today (3 replies)
• Top Headlines from Knox News Sentinel (1 reply)
• Meme of the Day: Sorry Donald, This Ain't No Democrat Plot! Ha! (1 reply)
• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Gets Notable Donor (1 reply)
• Neo-Nazis are OK with TNGOP (5 replies)
• TN GOP Refuses to Condemn White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis (1 reply)
• UPDATE...Why is it legal for schools to physically assault children in Tennessee? (2 replies)
• Broadband Bill Fails to Get Out of Committee...Again (1 reply)
• Hey Flo...Did God Send Those Pornstars to Trump? (6 replies)
• Hey Flo...Five Guilty Pleas so far and More Coming in the Russia "Fake News Hoax" (2 replies)
• The End of the Trump Presidency? (1 reply)
• Want to Help Improve Stream Water Quality? Here's what you can do... (1 reply)

To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.

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