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COLUMBIA - Tracy Bradford wanted to get her 11-year-old son, Dakota, the perfect gift for his birthday. She was surprised when she found out she was getting a brand new computer, which will ultimately become Dakota’s present.
“I’m going to be the best mom out there,” Bradford said, thinking of what her son might say.
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MAURY COUNTY - Connected Tennessee’s Computers 4 Kids has donated 79 new Dell computers to deserving families in Maury, Marshall and Giles counties.
Computers 4 Kids is an innovative project designed to positively impact the future of disadvantaged children in Tennessee by distributing computers to children and families facing economic challenges, are in the foster care [...]

Tennesseans will get financial relief on an upcoming sales-tax holiday. The state’s third annual tax-free weekend will begin at 12:01 a.m., Aug. 1. Clothing, school supplies and computers can be purchased free of Tennessee sales tax until 11:59 p.m. Aug. 3.
In Maury County the first full day of school is Aug. 4, but July 30 [...]

A race for the state House has turned negative with the mailing of a flier alleging a Columbia Republican hosted a party that served alcohol to minors.
The state Democratic Party has sent out 15,000 direct mail pieces targeting Republican Rep. Tom DuBois of Columbia. The flier criticizes DuBois for sponsoring anti-drunken driving legislation and hosting [...]

Tennessee State Representative and Judge hosts a Mule Day Party in which police arrested several party goers for DUI and underage drinking.
keep in mind:
It is not illegal to have underage drinking on your property as long as the land owner did not know about it. There are no laws in Tennessee regarding this (not [...]

Two Unrelated arrests are related by their original location!  Tom DuBois’s home Muleday part got a little “out of hand” Saturday night when over 900 people (over the course of the day) attended his party.  DuBois maintains that he and others carded all that drank alcohol at his home but that if someone brought their [...]

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 [...]

Republicans in the Tennessee legislature have introduced comprehensive legislation to combat drunk driving in Tennessee which, if it becomes law, would target drunk driving with a multi-faceted approach that includes automatic license revocation, lowering legal blood alcohol content levels for certain offenses, greater use of ignition interlock devices, a ban on open containers in vehicles, [...]