Tennessee and Georgia's inclusion on the list of 10 states to get waivers from some requirements of the Federal No Child Left Behind education legislation can be viewed as a form of relief for the states and their schools, and as confirmation that the states' own reform efforts have merit.
The $25 billion mortgage relief agreement announced by states' attorneys general and the Obama administration last week marks the broadest effort so far to help homeowners with underwater mortgages and others who were forced into foreclosure in the housing bust that has haunted the economy since 2007.
Tennessee has a crime problem -- it ranks fifth per capita in the nation for violent crimes and leads the country in the number of meth labs -- that has persisted for years despite various programs to curtail it.
There is a great irony in arguments put forth against requiring photo ID at polling places.
Tennessee was wise several years ago to stop issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens, and a recent incident in New Mexico shows why.
It is inconceivable that the Obama administration thinks there can be negotiations with Afghanistan's radical Muslim Taliban.
On the outside, this story is about a blond-headed boy with autism. But like a Valentine gift 10,000 times better than the wrapping paper it comes in, this story is really about something else. Love. And falling in love with what life brings.
What happens when journalists and politicians meet? Well, they often end up debating open-meetings laws (not to mention professional wrestling).
Conservatives just introduced the Republican establishment to the business end of a two-by-four, relegating Mitt Romney to bad second- and even third-place finishes in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. That's the number of children in Hill City -- a working-class neighborhood on the North Shore where residents claim an average income of a little more than $21,000 and homes sometimes sell for three times that amount -- that next year can attend Normal Park, an award-winning magnet school less than a mile away.
I WONDER IF "do-nothing" Chuck Fleischmann, who refused to debate before his election, will decide he'll have to now, to keep his job.
HORRORS! THE first lady wants to replace French fries and pizza with an apple or broccoli in our school lunches. We simply can't allow it.
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