Resources
› Think Tennessee:thinktennessee.org› Advisory on Fentanyl: www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/healthprofboards/Fentanyl_Public_Health_Advisory.pdf› White House Opioid Summit: www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-combatting-opioid-crisis/› The Beacon Center of Tennessee:www.beacontn.org› Tennessee Department of Health: www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/pdo.html› Tennessee Traffic Fatalities: www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/safety/documents/FatalityRate1950-2016.pdf
The 2018 elections are shaping up. The filing deadlines have passed, and most candidates are busy raising money, spending what they have already raised and/or borrowed to tell Tennesseans why they should vote for them and why they shouldn’t vote for those other folks.
This year, for the first time in decades, voters will not have an incumbent in either of the two statewide elections. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is in the last year of his two-term limit, and GOP Sen. Bob Corker has opted not to run for re-election.
The 124 member newspapers of the Tennessee Press Association are working together to present a monthly forum in which the major candidates in the gubernatorial and Senate races briefly outline their positions on a significant challenge facing Tennessee.
Too many deaths