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He doesn;t support federal regulations and Obamacare will make healthcare go up. Really?

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I would really like to see a study on the reasons for incarceration. It's going to be a tough sell to get the taxpayers to fund an even bigger jail with no end in inmate growth in sight.

RCN story:

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"Suppose the law is changed allowing my wife and me to choose not to wear our helmets. It's late afternoon and you, sir, have been in a committee meeting all day and are tired. You get in your car to drive home. My wife and I are in the lane next to you and our bike suddenly swerves to avoid another car. The rear tire of my bike clips the front of your car and we go down. You arrive home and tell your wife that a rider is dead. It was our choice not to wear helmets. It was our life. But you had no choice.

This should concern everybody:

Aytes said the school system has trimmed 31 teachers and 14 teaching assistants in recent years in response to reduced funding.

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Roane State Community College Arts & Lectures Committee Presents three-time Grammy award winner Bill Miller on April 5th!

Tickets are $10 per person (Free for RSCC Students)

Contact RSCC for Tickets (865) 354-3000 ext. 4514 - Show Starts at 7:30 PM

See and hear more on this subject HERE!

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-- OneTahiti

Too big to be a fighter; too small to be a bomber. Perfect metaphor for this Governor.

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Artists love playing for the good folks who come out to Market Street. we have a great scene. Andrew McKnight took the time to write it down and the trouble to let us know.

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37 degrees in the gorge and they are still looking for love.

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There are currently nine states without income taxes. Four of them are doing worse than the average state in economic growth per capita: Texas, Tennessee, Florida and Nevada. Five of them are doing worse than average in median income growth: New Hampshire, Florida, Tennessee, Alaska and Nevada. Six of them have had higher than average annual unemployment rates over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Washington, Alaska and Nevada.

An old friend, June Hensley of Kingston, just died at 86. I knew her through the Southwest Point Chapter of the D.A.R., for whom she volunteered tirelessly. She had a kind heart and always gave freely of her time; she truly cared about veterans, students, and our whole community. She will be greatly missed.

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-- OneTahiti

Cat lovers are proposing that trapping wild and free roaming cats, spaying them and returning them to the wild takes less effort than trapping and euthanizing them. Emotion intrudes on logic on issues like this, and I personally don't see eye to eye with the trap, spay and release folks, but let's make our arguments reality based if we can. Feral cats are a huge environmental problem, just as free roaming domestic cats are also destructive predators, exotic to our North American environment.

A concert for composer John Preston Dennis (J.P. Dennis). The details are:

Friday, March 1st, 2013

at the First Christian Church in Rockwood (next to the post office).

Admission is $5.00

Everyone is welcome!

Are we trying to compete with Ga and Mississippi here? That and Diane Black on mental illness and guns...

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Sam Lewis will be at Market Street one week from today (Friday march 8).

Everybody should already know how much I love the waters of this earth. They are often a central metaphor for our lives, as in this Sam Lewis tune...

The AP...looked at public records and found that 2,133 people have had their permits revoked or suspended for criminal charges or orders of protection over the last two years. Handgun permit owners have killed or been accused of killing at least 16 people in the past five years-four people in parking lots.

So that works out to over 1000 people a year who get concealed carry permits who shouldn't have them, but for a while they do...

Lack of oversight lets temptations run away.

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A coal ash pond has contaminated a NC drinking water source with high levels of arsenic. WCNC has the story, via Appalachian Voices: Link...

-- OneTahiti

SB 1015 by *Bell
(HB 0581 by *Dennis)
Weapons - As introduced, removes the prohibition against selling or carrying knives with a blade in excess of 4" or the sale, possession or carrying of a switchblade knife,and preempts local regulation with respect to the transfer, ownership, possession or transportation of knives. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

And then there's this...

If you are interested in supporting this resolution...

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Harriman is Roane County's last team in the State basketball tournament. The game is tonight in Harriman at 7:30. That gym is gonna rock!

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No! He's from Oak Ridge. How cool is that?

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-- OneTahiti

John McCutcheon just showed up at the Dagger barbecue party at the 96 Olympics and quietly played backup for the folks who were performing. No one knew who he was except a few of us and there was a totally crappy PA system. One day I'm going to bring him to Roane County and make that up to him, even though he's really big and costs a ton of money. He'll be in Oak Ridge tonight.

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Who stands to benefit from fracking in TN?

In 2012, the Haslam family purchased Western Petroleum and Maxum Petroleum. Both companies are among the nation's major suppliers of fuel to the gas drilling and fracking operations in the U.S.

Roane County School Board (RCSB) meeting reveals the truth about the request made in an amendment rejected by the County Commission (CC). In a clear and concise presentation by the RCSB Financial Director, the funds requested to pay for (see below) in an amendment request WOULD NOT HAVE RESULTED in a Tax increase nor any funds from the County.

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Unemployment
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