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Family Man 6-21
State having a financial feast
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The state capital has forgotten the Nursery Capital, fixing their interest on boom towns like Nashville, Murfreesboro and Franklin at the cost of smaller towns like McMinnville.The defunding of the Driver Testing Center in McMinnville is only the latest example of folks on Capitol Hill thumbing their noses at the non-metropolitan areas, using us a poker chip in their latest round of politics as usual in Nashville. Tennessee has a near $1 billion surplus and lawmakers are trying to tell us they just can’t foot the bill to pay $48,000 in rent for a testing center that is used by thousands, not only from Warren County but surrounding counties.The state could easily afford it. I’d say that is little more than tip money for most high-ranking state officials.