Inside the Government Shut Down
State Sen. Ron Ramsey explains why good news about the state's public education system - we're near the top in SAT scores, for example - gets little press in this Kingsport Times-News story giving an insider look at the budget debate.

"The plan was to continue to talk bad about Tennessee and how we're needing more money. The ultimate plan was to keep the government shut down as long as possible and close down state parks again and keep schools from opening in August to where people will finally scream ‘Uncle' and we get an income tax. There was a cynical plan and the middle-ground approach that we took kept that from happening," says Ramsey, a Blountville Republican.