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Eco warriors and politics
- New TNJ edition alert: Ready or not, here comes the fight over premixed cockails (TN Journal)
- Teachers would get $60K minimum salary under bill in Congress making grants to states (TN Lookout)
- Stockard on the Stump: Criminal Court judge balks at state’s supervision plan (TN Lookout)
- Democrats in Congress condemn Biden administration expansion of Title 42 (TN Lookout)
- National Dems give New Hampshire, Georgia more time to change 2024 primary dates (TN Lookout)
- Fair criticism does not equal incivility (TN Lookout)
- GOP senators sent message to interim correction commissioner on Community Corrections (TN Lookout)
- Juvenile justice recommendations from legislature lean heavily on institutions (TN Lookout)
- Health commissioner declines to answer reporters’ questions on HIV funds (TN Lookout)
- Environmental activist Pearson wins race to succeed the late Rep. Barbara Cooper (TN Journal)
- Read Gov. Bill Lee’s remarks on the occasion of his second inaugural (TN Journal)
- New TNJ edition alert: Party executive panels could face cuts, Lee readies roads push (TN Journal)
- Here are the Senate committee assignments for the upcoming session (TN Journal)
- Find your local House member’s committee assignments (TN Journal)
- New TNJ edition alert: GOP flexes on Nashville, new House rules to limit speechifying on floor (TN Journal)
- Sexton announces steps to make amendment language more transparent (TN Journal)
Science and stuff
- Prairie voles can find partners just fine without the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin (Science News Daily)
- Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form of record keeping (Science News Daily)
- It’s possible to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Here’s how (Science News Daily)
- Birds that dive may be at greater risk of extinction (Science News Daily)
- Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic (Science News Daily)
- These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields (Science News Daily)
- Procrastination may harm your health. Here’s what you can do (Science News Daily)
- Lots of Tatooine-like planets around binary stars may be habitable (Science News Daily)
- A bird with a T. rex head may help reveal how dinosaurs became birds (Science News Daily)
- Some young sea spiders can regrow their rear ends (Science News Daily)
Discussing
- TN GOP Congressman Stands with George Santos in Refusing to File Legally Required Fedral Financial Disclosure DocumentsFederal (1 reply)
- About Danged Time! (1 reply)
- Former GOP Speaker of the House Arrested Facing 20 years (1 reply)
- Why the Allman Brothers Band is the greatest Southern Jam Band of All Time or...Why Cher Married Gregg (1 reply)
- Dan Tyminski at the South West Point Ampitheater tonight...FREE (1 reply)
- Toons (1 reply)
- Democrats Propose Better Congressional Redistricting Map That Keeps Communities Together (1 reply)
- Try to Save Children's Lives and Get Fired By Governor Lee (1 reply)
- Trump Losing Streak Continues (1 reply)
- Sometime Today Roane County Will Record Its 80th Covid Death (1 reply)
- We are Dying Here! (2 replies)
- TN Legislature Passes Bill Making a Snooze at the Capital a Felony (1 reply)
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Progressiveness:
- All Hat No Cattle
- American Progress
- Campaign for America's Future
- Daily KOS
- digby
- Paul Krugman
- Talking Points Memo
- Whitehouse.gov
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Local Government:
- City of Harriman
- City of Harriman Code
- City of Kingston
- City of Kingston Code
- City of Oliver Springs
- City of Oliver Springs Code
- City of Rockwood
- City of Rockwood Code
- Congressman Charles 'Chuck' J. Fleischmann
- Rep. Kent Calfee
- Rep. Ron Travis
- Roane County
- Roane Schools
- St. Sen. Ken Yager
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