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County Historian Summoned to comment on Van Jones (Jackson, TN)

A Republican Madison County commissioner told the commission today that he wants the county's official historian to explain her sympathetic comments about Jackson native and former White House green jobs adviser Van Jones's resignation. Gary Deaton said he wants to put the discussion on October's commission agenda.
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