by allison | Jul 28, 2022 | Economy
I felt a swell of pride last month when employees at a Memphis Starbucks voted to unionize despite the fact that seven of their colleagues—the union organizers—had been fired three months earlier. Thanks (but no thanks) to our right-wing Supreme Court, corporations...
by allison | Jul 16, 2022 | Economy
Tennessee has been a Right to Work state since 1947. So why make RTW part of Tennessee’s constitution? That’s the point of Amendment 1, which will be on the ballot in November. The “Yes on 1” campaign hasn’t gotten rolling yet. But I expect we’ll soon be inundated...
by allison | Jul 14, 2022 | Economy
I’m all for fraternity in the broad sense. But signing up for weeks of sleep deprivation if not physical endangerment, while also having to do things like pick up an olive off a block of ice using only your bare behind—yes, I know someone who did that—would get a hard...
by allison | Jul 11, 2022 | Economy
When Ronald Reagan was elected president, I was a 17-year-old freshman at UT. During my time in Knoxville, I watched the human fallout of his policies in real time. By the end of those four years, the homeless population had exploded around campus—a direct result of...
by allison | Jul 9, 2022 | Economy
The best lawmakers are thieves. Faced with a complex problem, they search for solutions that have worked in other places. Rather than continuing to put good money toward a bad solution, or creating an all-new solution, they look at other places that did it right and...
