Tech SGA members expressed their thoughts concerning the state midterm election and stressed the importance of voting. The Associated Press gave online results as a guide to understanding this year’s election. With nine seats in the House of Representatives up for election this year, as well as election for state […]
Politics
Midterm Elections to Determine Political Landscape of Next Two Years
Midterm elections will take place on Nov. 8. Due to early voting, the results are not in the Democrats’ favor as the majority is rather thin. The Senate is currently split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote giving them the advantage. The majority of midterm […]
Tech Faculty Senate in Violation of Tennessee Law
The Faculty Senate has failed to publish meeting minutes and dates on the Tech website since April 18, 2022. To this day, there remains no update from the organization. This lack of “timely” updates is in direct violation of Tennessee’s open records code TCA 8-44-103 with failure to post a […]
Tech professor pushing education legislature
State legislators tabled a proposed bill requiring social health courses be taught in Tennessee middle schools until June due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, in the Senate, and Rep. Ryan Williams, R-Cookeville, in the House. Elizabeth Ramsey, an associate professor of family […]
Obama, Romney challenger to visit campus next week
Green Party candidate Jill Stein will deliver a presentation over her running platform, the Green New Deal, in Derryberry Auditorium Nov. 1 at 11 a.m. Katey Culver, co-chair of the Tennessee Green Party and the state coordinator for the Jill Stein campaign, contacted English instructor and Student Environmental Action Coalition […]
Two things republicans will never admit
I noticed something after watching the final presidential debate Monday night and then flipping between CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. It was clear Barack Obama had won the debate. He outtalked, outwitted and all around outdone Mitt Romney. Romney looked sweaty and nervous while the president was surprisingly specific and […]
Mullins: The debate rages on
One thing I learned from many years of playing basketball is if you want to win, you must set the tempo of the game. In my opinion, that is exactly what Romney did in Wednesday night’s debate. Romney set the tone and tempo from the very start of the debate, […]
Kaulay: The debate rages on
Here are a handful of Mitt Romney’s big ideas presented during the debate: We need to bring back coal. While Romney is at it, he should bring back shoe repairmen and scribes as well. He is going to cut the deficit by cutting programs. You know, programs such as subsidies […]
Democrats hypocritical on issue of Women’s Rights
For months now, we’ve listened to a narrative in the media and in the words of liberal politicians about the supposed “Republican war on women.” While Republicans have often lagged behind Democrats in winning the female voting demographic in elections, new coals were heaped atop that fire earlier this year […]
Rick Santorum’s bitter fight to the end
Look, I’m just going to put it out there: I’ve never been a Rick Santorum fan. My reasons are multifaceted. First of all, I desire to see a Republican victory this November, and Rick Santorum lost his last Senate race by double-digits. If he were the nominee, Santorum risks pulling […]
