John Cole’s Tennessee: The state that stashed their kids in a shoe.

November 23, 2022 11:00 am

John Cole comments on the State of Tennessee and Department of Children’s Service housing hundreds of children in state custody on the floors of office buildings and in hospitals.

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John Cole

John Cole's political cartoons on Tennessee topics appear in the Tennessee Lookout weekly. He is currently the staff cartoonist for the editorial pages of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, PA. Prior to this, he enjoyed a nearly 20-year run with The Herald-Sun in Durham, NC. His award-winning work is internationally syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.