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First Golden Goose Award of 2013 goes to Wallace Coulter
The first Golden Goose Award of 2013 will be awarded to the late Wallace H. Coulter, a researcher and inventor who some fifty years ago turned research on paint for the Navy into the Coulter Counter , which remains today a standard machine for counting blood cells rapidly and efficiently.
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LEONHIRTH: Haslam's re-election no sure thing
Perhaps it is a little early to declare Bill Haslam vulnerable in his bid for re-election in 2014, but the governor seems to have a few problems with business connections and ideology on which an opponent might try to capitalize.
Reduce influence of rich campaign donors
Last year, as 2012 campaigns got uglier and uglier, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig gave a lecture at the University of Montana that illuminated the greatest problem our nation faces today.
TN House members disclose personal finances
Three Middle Tennessee lawmakers disclosed assets of several hundred thousand dollars apiece in financial forms the House released Friday.
Capitol View Commentary: Friday, June 14, 2013
AMPING ON; NASHVILLE AMONG BEST CITIES AGAIN; AN EXCEDRIN HEADACHE KIND OF WEEK; LT GOVERNOR RAMSEY ON INSIDE POLITICS; IMMIGRATION Moving on down the line, Mayor Karl Dean's bus rapid transit program to connect East and West Nashville via West End Avenue breezed through the Metro Council last Tuesday night .
What Happens When 30 Craft Distillers Descend on Capitol Hill?
After a night of drinking dozens of thimble-sized plastic cups of booze-quinoa bourbon, chocolate fudge brownie liqueur, maple-infused vodka-my brain is mush.
McWhorter, who lives in Oak Hill, is co-founder and president of Brentwood-based Clayton Associates, a 17-year-old venture capital firm that he started with his father, well-liked former HCA Chairman Clayton McWhorter.
Tom Philpott: House committee refuses to put squeeze on personnel
The House Armed Services Committee has ignored warnings from the Joint Chiefs, the secretary of defense and, this week, from the most influential defense think tanks in Washington by approving a fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill that does little to nothing to trim personnel costs.
House committee refuses to put squeeze on personnel
The House Armed Services Committee has ignored warnings from the Joint Chiefs, the secretary of defense and, this week, from the most influential defense think tanks in Washington by approving a fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill that does little to nothing to trim personnel costs.
House Panel Backs East Coast Antimissile Site in Defense Bill
The fiscal 2014 $638 billion defense authorization bill approved early Thursday morning by the House Armed Services Committee includes $140 million for building a ballistic missile interceptor base on the East Coast, The Hill reported.
Capitol View Commentary: Friday, May 31, 2013
AMP IT UP; THE NEXT STEP FOR PILOT FLYING J; HERE COME THE JUDGES OR MAYBE NOT; BACK TO GUNS; INSIDE POLITICS; LIFESAVERS FOR LUNCH It looks like for the first time the Metro Council will be voting soon on Mayor Karl Dean's Rapid Bus Transit plan to connect West and East Nashville .
Blackburn questions 2011 Gibson raids
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn raised questions again Wednesday about the 2011 federal raids on Gibson guitar in light of the recent inquiries into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of tea party groups.
Special Report: Waste Watch: Fort Campbell Dollars - Scott Couch
Scott Couch Nashville, TN Fox 17 has learned late credit card payments at Fort Campbell cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.