Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.