By MICHAEL COOPER
Published: July 28, 2009
Personal observation: Perry County has provided National Guard recruits and cheap labor for outsourced corrections workers. It was rewarding to hear a person whose sister is a guard member say how glad she was to read the article.Governor Bredesen is term-limited from running in 2010. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.