Fri
Apr 17 2009
07:10 am
By: WhitesCreek
Republicans are using their newly won majority to declare an all out war on the environment with an array of bad bills. Democrats seem in disarray and are unwilling to stand up to them so far. Our boys get a dubious mention or two in this run down by the Tennessean...
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Eco warriors and politics
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- Senate rejects two impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Mayorkas (TN Lookout)
- Senate education chair: Voucher agreement needed by week’s end for passage (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic and reloading (TN Lookout)
- Budget clears House, Senate panels, but voucher bill on hold (TN Lookout)
- Republican lawmakers make vocal push against Chattanooga VW plant union effort (TN Lookout)
- Duck River among the ‘most endangered’ in the nation (TN Lookout)
- Editor’s notebook: Arming as many Tennesseans as possible while mistreating mothers. (TN Lookout)
Science and stuff
- A puzzling mix of artifacts raises questions about Homo sapiens’ travels to China (Science News Daily)
- Tiny treadmills show how fruit flies walk (Science News Daily)
- Hibernating bumblebee queens have a superpower: Surviving for days underwater (Science News Daily)
- What can period blood reveal about a person’s health? (Science News Daily)
- In ‘Get the Picture,’ science helps explore the meaning of art (Science News Daily)
- This robot can tell when you’re about to smile — and smile back (Science News Daily)
- This newfound longhorn beetle species is unusually fluffy (Science News Daily)
- 50 years ago, scientists wondered how birds find their way home (Science News Daily)
- Scientists find a naturally occurring molecule that forms a fractal (Science News Daily)
- In a first, these crab spiders appear to collaborate, creating camouflage (Science News Daily)
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- Does Rep Fritts Want School Shooters to Have Access to AR 15s? (2 replies)
- How many Trees Died Trying Save Us From Global Warming? (1 reply)
- Feel Good Friday,,,From our "If Only" Dept. (1 reply)
- Tennessee Education Worsens Under Bill Lee and GOP (1 reply)
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- Friday Toons (1 reply)
Lost Medicaid Funding
To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.
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Environment
Dennis and Ken.
Shame, Shame.
Our kids want to play.
But, not in these water ways.
24 hours is a day long.
How many more hours until all
is long gone.
Yager's employers
When Yager was the Roane County Executive/Mayor he gave himself another job in Solid Waste (ensuring the environment was safe through the proper management of our waste). He paid himself another salary on top of his salary as County Executive/Mayor. He held two public jobs at the same time (one elected and one somewhat self appointed), which allowed him to be somewhat of his own unchecked supervisor. On top of that (and during that same time) he taught classes to our children part-time at Roane State.
Now he's change that around as he works full time for Roane State, works as our part-time paid Senator, and is supported by Lobbyists to destroy the environment on a full time basis against our children's interest.
How many employers does he have now? Who does he work for?
I don't know how current it
I don't know how current it is, but Roane Realty has him as an agent on its web page.
what is his annual compensation as State Senator?
Is he also paid for meeting attendence?
Yager the Real Estate agent
True, I forgot that he is currently a Real Estate agent with current clients.