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Ben Rodgers & Cookeville Mayor Laurin Wheaton

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Ben Rodgers talks with Cookeville Mayor Laurin Wheaton. Laurin discusses what the differences are between being mayor and vice mayor, the Tennessee Municipal League's project of going back to more of a sharing plan with the state where the sales tax revenue is returned to the cities it was earned in, and the county's option to buy of some land and what that land could be put towards in the future.

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