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Hendersonville Ranked in Top Ten Family-Friendly C...
Starting with a broad list of 1700 cities and towns across the country with populations between 15,000 and 150,000, Family Circle Magazine selected the top ten family-friendly cities on June 30, 2009. Focusing on quality of public schools, low crime rate, affordable homes, access to health care, and other criteria, Family Circle rated Hendersonville, TN, in the top ten!
This year, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of Hendersonville as a city. It is appropriate to recognize the city’s great efforts to become one of the top cities in the country. Public schools are a great asset of Sumner County in Tennessee. Hendersonville maintains a 94% graduation rate, which is well above the statewide rate of 92%.
The Family Circle article will be published in the magazine’s August 2009 issue. The original Press Release also named Rockwall, TX; Evans, GA; Sherwood, OR; Indian Trail, NC; Edina, MN; Noblesville, IN; Perrysburg, OH; Kenmore, WA; and Sun Prairie, WI as the other nine family-friendly cities and towns.
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Tennessee Versus Texting
Texting and driving has been a long debated issue for some time now but has finally been deemed illegal in Tennessee. The 106th General Assembly passed a law back in January that prohibits reading or sending text messages while driving, taking effect today, July 1, 2009.
One of the main problems this new law poses is the possibility of law enforcement confusing a driver typing out a text message with a driver dialing a phone number. The Attorney General of Tennessee, Bob Cooper, said that it won’t matter either way. He said that pulling someone over “whenever unsafe operation is caused by cell phone use, text messaging, applying cosmetics or any other activity that prevents the driver from operating the vehicle in a safe manner,” already exists. Therefore, if you violate a rule of the road while texting or dialing, the outcome will be the same either way.
However, there are still no restrictions on using a cell phone to call someone while driving so law enforcement officials will have to try their best at distinguishing between the two in the absence of any unsafe vehicle operations.
Safety Department spokesman Mike Browning said to The Tennessean Newspaper, “Motorists should be aware that texting while driving is a dangerous behavior that can result in an injury, crash, or even death to the driver or other motorists.”
Other laws that will take effect starting today include a law allowing school districts to sell advertisements on school buses, a law allowing wine to be delivered to a customer’s home, a law that requires increased energy efficiency in state buildings and vehicles, as well as seven others.
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