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OBION COUNTY VISIT — U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn stopped to visit with Obion County commissioner Rob Holman on Friday after speaking at the Union City Rotary Club meeting. She addressed a

full room on several topics, including the upswing in Tennessee’s economy, health care concerns and the nation’s situation with Iran and Iraq, as well as the impeach-ment of President Donald Trump.

GADGET SHOW OPENS — The app for the CarePredict Tempo Series 3 appears on display at the CarePredict booth during CES Unveiled before CES International in Las Vegas. The wearable device for seniors

detects changes in the senior’s activity and can alert caregivers and family. CES, for-merly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, started Sunday in Las Vegas with two days of media previews. AP

By MAE ANDERSONAP Technology Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — What will watching TV be like in the 2020s? Amid new gadgets and glitz, the CES tech show in Las Vegas aims to offer some answers, many of which boil down to more stream-ing and more efforts to glue you to your phone.

The show’s keynote addresses, once dominat-ed by computer and chip makers, will this year fea-ture executives from TV networks NBC and CBS and upstart video services like mobile-focused Quibi and free streamer Tubi. Topic one will be the streaming wars — not to mention mounting costs for consumers who want access to everything — as giants NBC Universal and WarnerMedia prepare to join the clash with Netflix later this year.

Some companies also promise a big new push into “bite-sized” video designed to draw mobile viewers from YouTube, despite the fact that a simi-lar effort several years ago foundered.

CES, formerly known as

the Consumer Electronics Show, started Sunday in Las Vegas with two days of media previews. The show floor opens Tuesday through Friday. More than 170,000 people are expect-ed, with 4,500 companies exhibiting, according to its organizers. The show takes place across a sprawling set of hotels and convention centers equivalent to more than 50 football fields.

Beyond streaming, ex-pect to see artificial intelli-gence-infused home appli-ances, security cameras and cars, new gadgets that show what faster 5G cel-lular service can offer and, as always, the newest in robots and souped-up TVs. Speakers this week include Ivanka Trump, the presi-dent’s daughter and senior adviser, and Hyunsuk Kim, Samsung’s head of con-sumer electronics.

As technology increas-ingly infuses our lives, more traditional companies are showing up for the Las Vegas event. There’s a new travel section, for example, with Delta Air Lines its largest exhibitor.

CES has hosted previ-ous attempts to set out a

road map for TV. At the 2015 show, satellite TV company Dish announced a cheaper, cable-like pack-age of TV channels deliv-ered over the Internet and intended for cord-cutters. Offerings from Sony, DirecTV, Google, Hulu and others soon joined Dish’s

Sling TV. But five years later, these

online alternatives have been struggling, raising prices and in the case of Sony’s PlayStation Vue, shutting down altogether.

So it’s on to Plan B: Owners of television channels and producers

of their shows are sell-ing Netflix-like subscrip-tion services directly to consumers. Disney Plus launched in November, while WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s Peacock are coming in a few months. If people

CES gadget show: How watching TV will change in the 2020s

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By MEGAN DAMEStaff Reporter

One year to the day she was sworn into office as the State of Tennessee’s first female U.S. senator, Marsha Blackburn addressed a near full house at the Union City Rotary Club meeting on Friday.

After a brief introduction by both current Rotary pres-ident Mark McBride and president-elect Bob Regen, the senator addressed the club on topics such as the progress Tennessee’s econ-omy has made over the past year, recent strides the United States has made in the area of foreign trade and encouragement in the areas of health care.

“This first year in office, I have made it a priority to go through and visit our elected officials and focus

on building a partnership, meaning working with the mayor to see how we can best help him to help the people of Obion County,” she said.

According to Sen. Black-burn, the Japan free-trade agreement went into effect on Wednesday, which she said would have a direct effect on local farmers in the form of foreign exports. Even better for Tennessee farmers is the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA), which is set to be signed into effect by President Donald Trump this week and is expected to solidify some of the nation’s most vital agriculture trade part-ners.

Additionally, she ex-pressed the importance of this agreement to fiber,

chemical and auto manufac-turers — all vital industries for the State of Tennessee. She emphasized the impor-tance of the USMCA to Tennesseans and how it will definitely impact the wage rate in the state.

When it comes to the recent trouble the nation has encountered with China, the junior senator from Tennessee shared some encouraging news, that President Xi of China will be visiting the White House on Jan. 15 to discuss trade relations between China and the U.S., which is always something encour-aging for West Tennessee’s agricultural community.

When talking to mayors and community leaders, she said one of the other concerns rural Tennessee

US senator offers encouragementon area farm interests, health care

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By MEGAN DAMEStaff Reporter

While visiting Obion County and addressing the Union City Rotary Club Friday, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn was asked about a pair of hot topics in both the United States and world-wide.

The Republican senator didn’t hesitate to answer.

When asked about the tense situation between the United States and Iran, she did not mince words. “The president was right to go in and take out (Gen. Qassem) Soleimani,” she said. “He is a mastermind of terror-ism; he has the blood of Americans on his hands.”

She emphasized the necessity of taking out the Iran general who has been linked to a multitude of ter-rorist attacks, saying, “He was planning attacks against us and our allies and to use the intel we have was the right step because he was a known terrorist.”

She reassured the group that America is not about to enter into a war with Iran, but instead voiced the belief

Blackburn addresseshot topics

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By CHRIS MENEESSenior Staff Reporter

A resolution to prevent federal and state infringe-ments on citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms will be sent to Obion County’s legislative committee for review.

County commissioner Rob Holman presented a rough draft of a proposed resolution to the county’s budget committee during its session this morning.

“The purpose of the reso-lution is that it states that if a federal and state govern-ment were to pass any more strict gun control laws that the county will not spend the money to enforce those laws,” Holman said. “And so, therefore, it makes us a Second Amendment sanc-tuary county.”

He explained the reso-lution is being passed or considered by a number of counties in the state, including neighboring Dyer County.

“It is being really sup-ported by over 900 Obion Countians on social media,” he added, making reference to a group page recently launched on Facebook.

Commissioner Ralph Puckett, a member of the budget committee, said several Kentucky counties have already passed simi-lar resolutions. Holman said it actually all started in Illinois when gun control laws began being passed there and, more recently, when similar laws began being passed in Virginia.

The rough draft of the resolution read this morning by Holman would prevent federal and state infringe-ments on the right to keep and bear arms, nullifying all federal acts which are in violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article 1 Section 26 of the Tennessee Constitution.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to

keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

In the Tennessee Consti-tution, Article 1 Section 26 reads, “That the citizens of this state have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defense; but the legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime.”

The proposed resolution states, in part, that all fed-eral and state acts, laws, orders, rules or regulations regarding firearms are a violation of the Second Amendment and Article 1 Section 26 of the Tennessee Declaration of Rights with-out proof that their enforce-ment reduces crime.

Under the resolution, the county’s governing body would declare that such acts, laws, orders, rules or regulations — past, present or future — in violation of the Second Amendment and Article 1 Section 26 are not authorized by the state or U.S. Constitutions and “violate their true meaning and intent as given by the Founders and Ratifiers” and thus “are hereby declared to be invalid in this county, shall not be recognized by this county, are specifically rejected by this county, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this county.”

The resolution asks the state Legislature to adopt and enact any measures necessary to reject and nullify the enforcement of any federal action which is in violation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article 1 Section 26 of the Tennessee Constitution.

It also calls upon the state to adopt any mea-sures which would clarify the county sheriff’s respon-sibility to defend citizens against infringement by the federal government and further asks the state’s sheriffs to act on behalf of citizens “to defend them against infringements upon their rights and to hold the

2nd Amendmentresolution talked

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