I don't know that I ever heard of Tennessee State Rep. Andy Holt prior to his being fined for a.) operating without a permit while b....

Why is Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey intent on taking out 3 members of the state's Supreme Court? Is it a political power grab? The reasons ...

" As approved by the Senate, the bill (SB796) says that drones can only be used to search for a fugitive or a missing person, in monit...

Since the Senate in Georgia is suing Tennessee to claim water and land, what battles will soon take shape? One writer lays out the likely ...

Talking with friends recently I was reminded again that I'm all alone when it comes to following the actions of the state legislators in...

Children in need are being threatened in legislation from Knoxville Senator Campfield. He wants to withhold food stamps from families if a c...

Worst idea I've heard yet (and there is no shortage of bad ideas) in response to the massacre in Newtown, CT is from Tennessee Senat...

Is the process of getting an education merely a system designed get a job and to create a workforce? I wrote about this topic in August...

Our humble state of TN made national political news - once again - for achieving a new level of Dangerously Stupid Acts. The cause this t...

Gov. Haslam has a strategy to dodge his lack of leadership - "blame the media". R. Neal at KnoxViews calls him out: ...

I'm calling it the Goldilocks Complex - governors are doing too little or too much but precious few are doing their jobs jes' ri...

Seems Gov. Bill Haslam does not know how government works. I sent him a letter encouraging him to not sign the anti-science bill whic...

The state legislature is swiftly acting to pass a new law aimed at removing, fining and jailing the Occupy Nashville protesters . Legisl...

If the voters in Knoxville are paying attention, maybe the upcoming libel trial against state senator Stacey Campfield will be Reason 10,354...

Morristown's city council has been stalled since last summer trying to appoint a new person the the board of the Morristown Utility Com...

Knoxville's Li'l Christmas Elf, Senator Stacey Campy, has A Very Special Christmas Wish for the Poor and the Sick . "Sen...

Once again, the oddest of political animals - politicians who campaign by calling the government a monstrous creation - returns, as Lt. Go...

A Tennessee judge says there was no cause to arrest protesters at the Occupy Nashville protests, releasing all those that Gov. Bill Haslam o...

Only a Democrat would face re-election doubts after successfully tracking down and killing Osama bin Laden. President Obama, it seems, was ...

Tom Humphrey's Sunday column in the KNS on how much Tennessee (and every other state) depends on Federal funding, despite political cla...