Gov. Bill Haslam said Friday that except for the rare "inadvertent slip," he and top staffers use the state's email system and don't try to hide anything from the public. "All of our business happens on state email except for an inadvertent email where we might happen to use a personal email account," Haslam told reporters.
In this week's Viewpoint , Tom Humphrey, retired from the Knoxville News Sentinel , where he earned a reputation as the dean of Tennessee political writers, and now my colleague as a contributing editor of The Tennessee Journal , contributes some informed - and likely definitive - thoughts on the Republican candidates who will be vying in a 2018 gubernatorial contest which is about to get started in earnest. As Humphrey points out, Tennessee is now about as deep-dyed red in its political sentiments as can be, and the GOP has a built-in advantage.