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Beavers: Phase out food tax

February 21, 2006 Believing she has found "a third way" to resolve the long-running dispute over whether to keep or eliminate the sales tax on food in the state, Sen. Mae Beavers has introduced a bill to slowly phase out the tax over the next 12 years. But her proposal has not won over many of the ...

Congressmen: Don't do port deal

February 23, 2006 A plan to put a half-dozen American seaports under the control of a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates received sharp criticism from Wilson County's Congressional delegates Wednesday. U.A.E.-owned security firm Dubai Ports World recently acquired the British company ...

'Ghosts' of '94 plague Corker

February 24, 2006 Ghosts of former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker's 1994 U.S. Senate bid are coming back to haunt his current campaign for the very same seat. Corker's campaign was hit on two fronts Thursday, both of which were issues in his failed '94 Republican primary bid against Senate Majority L...

Suspected drug mastermind indicted

February, 24 2006 The alleged mastermind of a wide-ranging marijuana distribution operation has been indicted along with two co-defendants by the Trousdale County grand jury on an array of charges, including attempted theft and tampering with government records. Fred Earl Strunk, who has remained i...

Hilleary's stock rising with Dems

February 16, 2006 POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: It appears the warm fuzzies are over between Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and former Congressman Van Hilleary. The dust-up between the two former House colleagues began this week after Ford sent a letter to Hilleary over his use of the word "waltz" in a press re...

Water utility offers 'help' and changes zoning requirements

February 17, 2006 Sharon Lister never expected to be so close to her new neighbors. But when construction began on a roughly 4,000-square-foot, two-story house just behind Lister's home in West Wilson County's Cambridge Crossing subdivision in summer 2005, she says she noticed almost immediately th...

Sheriff, jailers added to inmate lawsuit

February 20, 2006 Saying the recent criminal trial of Wilson County Jail guards "painted a very ugly picture of procedures at the jail," a U.S. District Court Judge on Thursday allowed 10 defendants, including Sheriff Terry Ashe, to face civil charges of conspiring to assault and harm at least one ...

Miracle prayers soar high for Hawk

February 4, 2006 A standing-room-only crowd brought all of its hopes and faith into the Watertown High School gymnasium Friday night, just to give it all to a small boy and pray that, somehow, it will be enough to save him. Doctors cannot remove the rare tumor that sits at the base of Hawk Smith's ...

Teacher raises goal for WCEA

February 6, 2006 The head of the Wilson County Education Association says there's no question about the overriding issue for educators when negotiations begin on a new three-year contract. In a nutshell, WCEA president Jeff Garrett said recently, teacher pay will be the focus of the talks, which wi...

Providence stores prep for grand openings

February 7, 2006 A wave of grand openings are now set for Mt. Juliet's Providence MarketPlace, and with nearly a half dozen big-box retailers opening their doors by April's end, city officials are "racing" to prepare for the retail boom. According to a list obtained by The Lebanon Democrat, 14 majo...