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Starvation On The Campaign Trail

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Are you exhausted by the media coverage of the current presidential election? Most likely. But have you actually learned much beyond how a candidate campaigns, feels about campaigning, or the now often-overused phrase "creating a narrative" for a candidate?

TNGOP Engages In “Class Warfare” Over Budget

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GOP Communications Czar Bill Hobbs throws a little dust on the Governor for announcing employee layoffs for workaday bureaucrats while leaving his top dog political appointees’ pay raises

Choosing Our Judicial Overlords

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The Memphis Daily News reports on meeting recently discussing the “Tennessee plan” of choosing judges.

Presently, a commission of legislative political appointees choose a slate of candidates from which the Governor must choose. Those judges, once in office, are then subject to “yes/no” retention elections.

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