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Registration drive nets scores of new voters

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Staffers and volunteers gathered on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga Saturday for the kickoff to "Vote for Change," a national voter registration effort sponsored by the Barack Obama campaign. Organizers say some 55 volunteers gathered 140 voter registration forms in over two dozen locations throughout Hamilton County.

Out of season today: oysters and open fires

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Happy May Day, or International Workers' Day; but before you go building a huge bonfire, shucking oysters, and slithering around a maypole — as fun as all that sounds — remember that your fire can net you a fine if blazing in Hamilton Co

A Great Story Opportunity

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A while back, I wrote a post about a few advantages newspapers have in the market and how they could use them to remain relevant.  Using these assets–excellent writing, investigative journalism, and local marketplace branding–newspapers can give us something no one else can.

The pressure is on

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Not surprisingly the volume of calls regarding HB2795 which would require non-public students to submit to public school tests has been huge. THEA's Lana Thornton reported yesterday that more than 1200 calls had been received by the office of Special Initiatives Committee Chair Rep. John Mark Windell (D-Livingston).

We’re a fightin’ back

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Agin’ them thievin’ Georgia crackers trying to steal our water, that is. It seems that Rep. Gary Odum has fired an opening volley.

(His legislation) calls Georgia’s effort an “election-year ploy” that is little more than a “veiled attempt to commandeer the resources of the Tennessee River for the benefit of water-starved Atlanta, which is either unable or un

Dear TennesseeTicket, when is the next election, and on what are we voting?

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I'm so glad you asked. The next election for us here in Hamilton County will be held on August 7, 2008, and will involve major party primaries and a county general election.

The lone candidate for Hamilton County Assessor of Property, Bill Bennett, will easily win re-election to another four-year term in that office.

Party ID

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TNGOP spokesman Bill Hobbs worked himself up into quite a tizzy earlier this month over the fact that various media organizations did not report the party affiliation of disgraced Sheriff Billy Long in Hamilton County.

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