Subject: Think Tanks

• Curry Todd, Possible Terrorist, Leads This Week's Kook Power Rankings

  Agent Curry Todd's master plot: To make you watch movies where they sing in foreign languages.Rep. Curry Todd, the man behind the guns-in-bars bill, is pushing his terrorist agenda of deceit and duplicity, thus making the winner of this week's Kook Power Rankings:1. Rep. Curry Todd: As Grandma Pith likes to say, "Never trust a man named after Indian food." India has foreigners. And terrorists. Obvious conclusion: Curry Todd is an terrorist agent who's covertly attempting to destabilize the Volun

  June 1, 2009

• If Auto Industry Fails, Tennessee Could Lose 106,000 Jobs

  The Memphis Business Journal reports today that if the U.S. auto industry fails, Tennessee would take the fourth biggest hit among the states. A study by the D.C. think tank Economic Policy Institute estimates that Tennessee could lose up to 106,000 jobs. This, as you may have guessed, is not a good thing, especially since Tennessee recently soared to No. 1 in personal bankruptcy filings. Only Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana would face worse consequences from the Big 3's demise. Nationwide, the coll

  December 17, 2008

• States Can't Count on Federal Bailout

  This article makes the federal stimulus package sound like a panacea for state governments. But according to a new report, it  won't come close to wiping out their red ink, as some governors (including our own Phil Bredesen) had been hoping.  In its report, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says even if Congress sends more than $300 billion to the states, at least half of that money could not be spent to plug holes in their budgets. Tennessee's college leaders are banking on t

  January 27, 2009

• Red State Update: Little Ol' Bobby Jindal

  From their think tank in Murfreesboro, our resident scholars discuss a new leader almost on par with Sarah Palin.

  March 2, 2009

• The Clock's Ticking on a Challenge Grant to Save the Historic Franklin Theatre

  December 4, 2008

• The Great Gadfly

  September 11, 2008

• ‘We Will Prevail’

  Bredesen administration delays release of First Lady’s bunker email

  May 8, 2008

• Running Time

  Efforts to save the historic Franklin Cinema take on new urgency

  July 19, 2007

• Click Here for Squalor

  Tennessee ranks high in all things low

  September 23, 2004

• Clean the Cabinet of Cooley

  February 23, 2006

• Quaint Sells

  Fortunately for preservationists, developers have capitalized on, rather than undermined, Franklin's historic charm

  December 9, 2004

• Christmas in Franklin

  December 9, 2004

• Waging War

  The mayor battles the Council on the proposed living-wage bill

  April 19, 2001

• Walking on the Wild Side

  A Williamson County judge is taking the 840 trial on a field trip

  September 21, 2000

• Will Work for Food

  Legislative supper group shows hints of progress

  May 11, 2000

• Shayne dies at 64

  February 4, 1999

• Mr. Unremarkable

  October 1, 1998

• As Others See Us

  March 19, 1998

• Tennessee's Pork Politics are in the Eye of the Beholder

  The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is getting a lot of media play for its 2009 Pork Report, the investigation daringly self-described as "The book Nashville doesn't want you to read." It's a well-researched attack on government waste, claiming to detail more than $580 million in blown tax dollars. In many respects, it's a fun and depressing read, though much of its contents has been reported before. It targets a wide variety of abuses, from the $19 million spent remodeling the governor's m

  May 28, 2009

• Turner Charges Senate Republican Budget Cuts Could Kill Babies

  House Democratic caucus chair Mike Turner raised the ante today in the state budget battles, saying the Senate Republican version could kill babies by cutting $1.5 million for prenatal care. Well, what he actually said this morning on Liberadio! was the GOP cuts "would just literally you know, you know possibly, potentially kill people." The words were staggering off Turner's tongue and you could just about hear the wheels grinding in his brain as he thought about whether it was really a good i

  June 15, 2009

• Morning Roundup

  A young Middle Tennessee mother dies of swine flu in Florida.... Alleged "truck stop serial killer" to appear in Davidson County Criminal Court today on facing charges he tried to have five people killed from jail, including the Metro investigators responsible for his arrest.... Former Nashville City Paper editor Clint Brewer is the new top dog at the right-leaning libertarian think tank Tennessee Center for Policy Research, taking the reins from Bredesen nemesis Drew Johnson.... Can Eddie Ge

  October 30, 2009