Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. It is the authoritative allocation of values. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.
Kim Allen felt good about her chances of passing her third-semester nursing class at Columbia State. She had learned a lot from her teacher, she thought, and felt ready for the final exam that would make or break her grade.
Allen’s grade broke.
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Columbia City Council 7/3/08
Wearing rain gear and stickers reading, “Guess what? It’s Raining,” and “Cut Tax Loopholes – Don’t Cut Tennessee,” scores of voters from a wide range of organizations gathered at the State Capitol as Governor Bredesen prepared to outline his proposal to address the half-billion dollar budget shortfall. Groups gathering to call for alternatives to the [...]
If water is pouring from the sky, but the governor doesn’t want to see it, is it really raining? From where I sit, it is raining in Tennessee.
In his January 2008 State of the State speech, Gov. Phil Bredesen told the people, “We expect our revenues this year to fall at least $180 million below [...]
We recently received a memo from Robert Otwell to his hospital staff. We decided to publish it, it is not incriminating, it is simply a clarification of facts by him to his staff, and is as follows:
As the HCA/Spring Hill Hospital certificate of need (CON) process continues to unfold, there have unfortunately been some [...]
Maury County commissioners canned a resolution Monday night that would have put a spending cap on the county’s budget in an effort to thwart a property-tax increase.
The commission voted 13-9 to table the resolution, which would have required county officials to present budgets at the same or a smaller amount than their previous year’s spending [...]
MT. PLEASANT — The first reading of the city’s budget is among several items on the agenda for the monthly City Commission meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
In a special meeting last week, City Manager Richard Goode outlined a budget which calls for 37-cent property tax increase. For example, a home with an assessed [...]
MT. PLEASANT — The city will usher in a new era Thursday as Richard Goode assumes the duties of city manager for Mt. Pleasant.
“It’s been a luxury getting to meet everybody I’ll be getting to work with,” Goode said Wednesday. “It’s going to be very exciting.”
For nearly a year commissioners searched for someone to replace [...]
At week’s end, the state of Tennessee will be $384 million in the hole according to the Funding Board’s latest estimate, but members of Tennesseans for Fair Taxation (TFT) call it unnecessary. It is projected to be $585 next fiscal year. “State officials are labeling the situation as a $384 million budget ’shortfall.’ Four-hundred million [...]
City council members continue to court controversy with two recent decisions which could have long-term impacts on Columbia.
On Thursday the council voted to create a contract proposal to the county which calls for the city to take over operation of the embattled facility.
The move sets up a showdown over who will run the jointly-owned animal [...]
MT. PLEASANT — Commissioners may select a candidate to fill the vacant city manager position when they meet 5 p.m. Thursday at City Hall.
Last week, commissioners interviewed four candidates — Jay Whitehead, Tracey Pruett, Richard Goode and Mike Greene — but did not vote because of Commissioner Steve Kirk’s absence.
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A nominee for a board that oversees the hiring and firing decisions of the sheriff will be withdrawn amid concerns minority viewpoints would not be represented on the panel, a county commissioner said Wednesday.
Commissioner Ty Cobb said he plans to withdraw his nomination of Marvin Sandrell, a Columbia business owner, to allow for the appointment [...]
Columbia City Council 4/3/08
News events in six cities to launch campaign for food and business tax fairness
In six cities across the state Thursday, Tennesseans for [...]
I am excited to announce my candidacy for Tennessee House of Representatives 64th District. I want to represent every person, and help all my fellow citizens to move Maury County forward. I am about putting the working people’s vote back in Nashville. I am looking forward to face the challenging issues ahead. Thank you for [...]
There are varying opinions on whether or not the Spanish version of the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States should be banned from being spoken in our local school district. Aside from missing the entire concept of what a pledge of oath means; another more scandalous issue is overlooked.
The teacher at the center of [...]
WASHINGTON—In an unexpected reversal that environmentalists and scientists worldwide are calling groundbreaking, President George W. Bush, for the first time in his political career, openly admitted to the existence of carbon dioxide following the release of the new U.N. Global Environment Outlook this October.
Enlarge Image Bush Acknowledges
The announcement has wide-ranging implications for exhalation, club soda, [...]
A new project by MauryTHINKS is going to be released soon. It’s system is a network of BLOGs that are owned and operated by Leaders of our county, including those helping the community and in elected positions. Currently Maury County Commissioner Ty Cobb and Spring Hill Alderman Rick Graham are the envelope pushing [...]
Originally published in the Columbia Daily Herald
Tom DuBois
A recent editorial on local crime asked what anti-crime legislation is being pursued by our legislature this session, and particularly, what anti-crime legislation was being pursued by our local state legislators.
As the editorial correctly pointed out, Sen. Ketron and I sponsored anti-stalking legislation several [...]
This Tennessean article quotes Maury County Commissioner Bob Farmer as stating a preference of skin color in American political life, in the context of Sheriff Enoch George’s recent arrests of underground expatriates:
“[Sheriff Enoch George] wears cowboy boots everywhere, including with the suit he’s wearing to a Safety Committee meeting on a recent afternoon. At the [...]