This is an opinion cartoon and column. “Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

This story has been updated. After years of trying to address the high costs of electronic and audiobooks for libraries, state representatives on Thursday gave final passage to a bill that would ban ...

Smyrna and Murfreesboro library branches will be closed from Nov. 10-15 after Secretary of State Tre Hargett sent a letter requiring a full audit of the branches' juvenile collections within 60 days.