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From The Tennessean Why would lawmakers oppose banning all smoking on school grounds? Tennessee Voices Everyone claims they believe school children shouldn't smoke. Everyone claims adults should set good examples for school children. But not everyone wants to back up their words with action. [...]

From The Knox News-Sentinel: Back to the cigarette tax-food tax debate April 25, 2007 Action in the Legislature this week - possibly even today - should return our attention to the debate over raising the state's cigarette tax and what appears to be its corollary, reducing the tax on grocery food items. [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser released the following statement regarding Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey’s late-night rule change, which allowed the adoption of a Senate rules committee report with less than the constitutional majority of seventeen: “Never before in Tennessee history has a [...]

From the The Tennessean: The tragedy that is Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. — the abysmal failure to care for our wounded soldiers — is 650 miles from Nashville. Why should it bother Tennesseans who care less about what is going on so far away? There are thousands of veterans in Tennessee. We care and, even mo [...]

From the Commercial Appeal: Op-Ed: On Cigarette Tax Hike, Industry Blows Smoke Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's proposed 40-cent cigarette tax hike for education appears to be in trouble in the legislature, where it is stalled in the Senate Finance Committee. Arguments against the tax hike, which would raise a projected $219 million, ha [...]

From the Politico: 'Law & Order' and Lobbying Republicans pining for a Fred Thompson presidential bid contend the "Law & Order" star would make a strong candidate because of his experience as a senator, federal prosecutor and Watergate investigation counsel, as well as his conservative credentials and fame as a television and movie ac [...]