HeyJaredField Notes
Keel’s Field Notes, which often become newspaper columns, are more frequent posts about politics, our civic life, and how things change.
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Tennessee’s Next Governor? (opens the original)
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With just eight weeks to go before Tennesseans elect a new Governor, this informative piece by Sarah Grace Taylor in the new Nashville Banner is a timely public service. Also shows a telling contrast between new ideas and old. Democrat Jerri Green wants to debate. Republican Marsha Blackburn continues to say No. So, this jo
A Woman who Lifted Up Women (opens the original)
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At the Nashville Public Library downtown, in the middle of our city that discovered Dolly Parton, these words of Gloria Steinem greet visitors to the “Votes for Women” room, the permanent installation that honors the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.“Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.“
Sleepwalking to the State Capitol (opens the original)
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What if they threw an election for Governor of Tennessee - and nobody showed up?Much will be on the agenda of our next Governor in the coming four years, but you’d never know it from reading the daily news - data center fears, gun violence, public health disparities, whether state government will continue to fund private schools, as the incumbent Lee administration has made its very top-most priority. The silence on these issues in the 2026 race is almost deafening.Thanks for reading Fie
Can Tennessee elect an Independent Governor? (opens the original)
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Among the many reader responses to my ‘Sunday Column - Part 1’ over the weekend, several have raised a timely but different question about the coming November election of Tennessee’s next Governor:Can an independent, who is not the nominee of either the Republican Party or the Democratic, win the Governor’s race this year?In normal times, the answer to that question would be No. In normal years, Independent candidates lack import
Should 'Senator Zero' be our Governor Next? (opens the original)
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Our state is just fifteen weeks away from electing a new Governor, but Tennesseans are being subjected to a joyless non-campaign for the high office, with Republican party elders shrugging that it is already over.This is what entrenched one-party government eventually gets you, if it is allowed to endure long enough: No competition, no energy, no big ideas – and now an odd career office-holder who runs away from reporters and the public.<p cl
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