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Mike Huckabee (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Bristol Community Prayer Breakfast

Huckabee to keynote Bristol prayer breakfast

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran in the GOP presidential primaries in 2008 and 2016, used to host the Fox News Channel show “Huckabee,” and once hosted a daily radio program.

Jul 16, 2019 at 5:30 PM
This gentleman who was dumping his trash at the Carters Valley convenience center near Church Hill Wednesday told the Times News that the new hoppers, or the metal extensions attached to the top of the compactors, were an inconvenience. The solid Waste Committee voted Wednesday to remove the hoppers.
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Hawkins County Commission

Hawkins responds to complaints about new hoppers at trash convenience centers

Commissioner Danny Alvis said he spent time at the Carters Valley convenience center Wednesday morning and spoke to 15 people who were dumping their trash. Only one of those 15 said they didn’t have a problem with the new hoppers, Alvis said.

Jul 12, 2019 at 5:30 PM
U.S. Rep. Phil Roe
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U.S. Rep. Phil Roe

Roe: Southern border is open for families

Roe, co-chair of the House GOP Doctors Caucus, recently visited the southern border with caucus members to see how illegal immigrants are processed and to assess medical conditions.

Jul 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM
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Sullivan County Property Taxes

Sullivan Commission approves budget, 2-cent tax increase

The two-cent tax increase equals: $5 on a $100,000 home. The budget includes funding for 10 new jail employees, school resource officers for all county schools, and a 2 percent pay raise for county employees.

Jul 10, 2019 at 11:30 PM
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U.S. Senate candidate Manny Sethi

U.S. Senate candidate talks up health care, illegal immigration and Ballad Health

Nashville orthopedic trauma surgeon Manny Sethi admits he's never run for political office in his life, but he believes he would make a good fit for Tennessee in the U.S. Senate. 

Jul 10, 2019 at 5:00 PM
FILE - Presidential hopeful H. Ross Perot speaks at a rally in Austin, Texas, in this 1992 file photo. Perot, the Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo, File)
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Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot dies aged 89

H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was 89.

Jul 9, 2019 at 11:02 AM
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Sullivan County Commission

Venable calls meeting on Sullivan County budget

BLOUNTVILLE — Sullivan County Mayor Richard Venable has called a special session of the Sullivan County Commission to try again at approving a county budget for the fiscal year that began a week ago. The last called meeting to try and set a budget and tax rate ended in a stalemate.

Jul 8, 2019 at 9:41 AM
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Sullivan County Commission

Sullivan County budget: no plan in sight

The county’s fiscal year begins July 1. The Sullivan County Commission must submit a budget and tax rate to the state no later than August 31 or risk losing state funding — and potentially being shut down.

Updated Jun 27, 2019 at 9:21 AM
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Sullivan County Property Taxes

Sullivan County budget in limbo five days out from new fiscal year

Sullivan County commissioners couldn’t reach an agreement on an appropriations resolution (how money will be spent) or a county property tax rate in a called meeting Tuesday evening that ended in a stalemate.

Jun 26, 2019 at 9:01 AM
The Founding Fathers debated many ways to maintain balance between the federal government, the state governments and the people. One of the ways they achieved this balance was with the Electoral College.
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Doing away with the Electoral College is a bad idea

Our country is not a democracy. A true democracy is mob rule, and the founders of our nation saw how bad that could be firsthand.

Jun 19, 2019 at 7:00 PM
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Civics 101

Civics 101: The Civil Rights Act is turning 55

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964, in a nationally televised ceremony in the East Room of the White House, just a few hours after its passage by the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Senate had approved the bill on June 19, 1964 — one year to the day after President John F. Kennedy’s initial proposal for action on the issue.

Updated Jun 17, 2019 at 1:12 PM
U.S. Rep. Phil Roe
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U.S. Rep. Phil Roe

Roe: 'Humanitarian crisis' is at southern border

U.S. Rep. Phil Roe, a retired physician, said in the next few weeks he will be going to the border with the GOP doctor's caucus to see firsthand what is happening.

Jun 13, 2019 at 5:30 PM
Wise County Assistant Sheriff Grant Kilgore is the candidate to replace retiring Sheriff Ronnie Oakes in January. Kilgore received 785 of 1344 votes cast in the sheriff's ballot in Saturday's 'firehouse' Republican primary at the Norton Community Center. Challenger Coeburn Police Chief Scott Brooks got 447 votes and Pound police officer Tim McAfee got 112 votes.
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Wise County

Kilgore gets Wise County Republican nod for sheriff’s race

Wise County Assistant Sheriff Grant Kilgore will be the Republican candidate for Wise County and Norton sheriff in November.

Jun 3, 2019 at 10:30 AM
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Sullivan County Property Taxes

Six-cent tax increase on table in Sullivan County

Two cents is proposed to fund school resource officers, two cents is proposed to give county employees a 2 percent raise, and two cents is proposed to fund about $650,000 of $1 million in new funding to add 20 employees to the county jail — $350,000 of which is projected to come from existing state revenue.

May 29, 2019 at 11:48 PM
Educators talked about Gov. Bill Lee's move to add more school resource officers across the state and using telemedicine to prevent student suicide during their meeting with U.S. Rep. Phil Roe at right.
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U.S. Rep. Phil Roe

Educators air school safety concerns with Roe

When asked for his position on arming teachers, U.S. Rep. Phil Roe responded: “I can’t imagine Miss Childs, my first-grade teacher, carrying a nine millimeter, but there are people, friends of mine, who are extremely well trained in the military and would have no problem with them having a weapon there. I would feel better if they did.”

May 28, 2019 at 8:30 PM
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