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<title>May 4, 2008</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 12:52:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Center for Policy Research encourages state lawmakers to use the state budget shortfall as an opportunity to trim fat from the budget in an opinion article in the Sunday's <i>Tennessean</i>.]]></description>
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<title>Polk County Residents Rebuff Two New Taxes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:50:55 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Voters in Polk County prevented both an $11 annual wheel tax and a half cent sales tax increase by hefty margins.

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<title>Washington County Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Wheel Tax Hike</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:54:18 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Residents of Washington County defeated a proposed $50 wheel tax increase by a 71% to 29% landslide.]]></description>
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<title>Wheel Tax Increase Fails in Cumberland County</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cumberland County voters resoundingly squashed a wheel tax hike by a four-to-one margin.]]></description>
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<title>Memphis Gets Serious About Improving Failing Schools</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nashville not yet willing to use No Child Left Behind in a way that has led to safer schools and better student performance in Memphis.
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<title>Did the Governor Sign an Unconstitutional Budget?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:51:15 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A state lawmaker requests an Attorney General's opinion on the constitutionality of the procedure used by the Bredesen administration to determine the state budget's growth under the Copeland Cap.]]></description>
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<title>Open Enrollment Set to Begin in Memphis City Schools</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:48:35 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tennessee Center for Policy Research applauds innovative public school choice program for troubled Memphis school system.

 

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<title>Wyoming Permanently Eliminates Food Tax</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:27:08 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gov. Dave Freudenthal and Wyoming legislators serve as a model for Tennessee's elected officials by repealing the state's sales tax on groceries.]]></description>
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<title>Utah Governor Signs First Universal School Choice Bill</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:58:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Utah's Governor signed the first universal school choice legislation into law. The law allows parents, regardless of income, the opportunity to ensure a quality education for their children.]]></description>
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<title>State's Poor Pay for Wealthy to Attend College</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:46:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lottery scholarships shown to disproportionately help rich students who would attend college without them at the expense of Tennessee's poorest residents.

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