conflict of interest

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported Thursday that 19 candidates for the state legislature have failed to file required conflict-of-interest disclosures.

Perhaps it’s a slow news day.

A very interesting article appeared in the Tennessean under the byline of Theo Emery this weekend taking to task, Senator Bill Ketron for his failure to declare Rule 13

A very interesting article appeared in the Tennessean this weekend under the byline on Theo Emery taking to task, Senator Bill Ketron for his failure to declare Rule 13 until after the vote on cable compromise bill giving telcom giant AT&T the ability to enter the Tennessee cable market under conditions, more or less, of their choosing.

Today's Tennessean was full of good stories and none better than Anne Paine's piece about how TVA awarded a contract to a company called Bechtel that basically hatched the idea for its own project.

Today's Tennessean was full of good stories and none better than Anne Paine's piece about how TVA awarded a contract to a company called Bechtel that basically hatched the idea for its own project.

Alright. Here is my quick and dirty first read on the make-up of the task force to look at Charlie Tygard's LED proposal for various noncommercial organizations.

FAA officials often are former execs of the airlines they now regulate.

Education officials are often former employees of the schools they now regulate.

Why is Democrat Thurgood Marshall Jr.

Here are a couple of quotes by John McCain in the January 30 GOP debate:

"I think that we've got to return to the principle that you don't lend money that can't pay it back. I think that there's some greedy people on Wall Street that perhaps need to be punished."