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VACATION PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS IN PORTFOLIO Ms. Cheap Guide to Fall INSIDE 1HE 1ENNESSEAN A GANNETT COMPANY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2012 NASHVILLE Skipped tax on that? So did they Many shoppers don't know it's the law, but even politicians fail to pay taxes for online purchases. By Josh Brown The Tennessean Gov. Bill Haslam didn't mince words in July when he testified before Congress about the revenue Tennessee was losing from consumers who didn't pay taxes for online purchases. "That money could fund critical programs that vulnerable citizens rely on," Haslam said.

"It could help cover federal mandates that states face, or it could go back to the taxpayers in the form of further tax relief." To demonstrate just how widespread the problem of unpaid Internet sales taxes is, the governor could have used his own gubernatorial campaign as an example. As he testified before the House Judiciary Committee, his campaign had hundreds of dollars in unpaid taxes for purchases from Amazon.com stretching back to the summer of 2009, according to campaign disclosure reports. And the governor isn't alone. Since 2006, candidates for state and congressional offices have spent nearly $30,000 on purchases with TAX, 6A "We need to stand by our heroes," says Marty Stuart, anthony scarlati Gore has secure place in history Broad agenda keeps fc ex-vice president busy 20 12 By Michael Cass SP The Tennessean Twelve years after he came oh so achingly close to becoming the world's most powerful man, Al Gore has settled into a quieter but still active life: a campaign-free third act of traveling, activism, moneymaking and political punditry. Living in Nashville, the former vice president continues to press the case for the threat posed by climate change an issue that the politicians who came behind him have done little to address, even as Gore's warnings won him a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.

He has written four books since 2000 and is working on another one. He advises Google, sits on Apple's board and is a senior partner of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Gore also co-founded Current TV. Instead of speaking this week at the Democratic National Con- INSIDE Peter Cooper on Music: Marty Stuart is one of many artists deserving of Country Music Hall of Fame induction, and it seems ti me to catch upon the backlog. In Portfolio By Peter Cooper The Tennessean rom his home on Caudill Drive in Hendersonville, Marty Stuart can look out the window at Old Hickory Lake and see back across 40 years, over 760 highway miles to the northeast and into a converted Greyhound Scenic Cruiser that idled in a Glasgow, parking lot.

There, on that bus, at sunset on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend 1972, 58-year-old bluegrass pioneer Lester Flatt crushed a Doral cigarette with his shoe heel and then addressed 13-year-old mandolin-playing hopeful Stuart. "I remember he had sunglasses on," Stuart says. "He said, 'How would you feel about sticking around Nashville and playing with It was, Stuart estimates today, a "divine appointment." How would he feel? To move to Nashville? To play the "Grand Ole Opry" at Ryman Auditorium, the place where Flatt, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Chubby Wise and Howard Watts had invented bluegrass music in 1945? To immerse himself in the stuff of dreams and legends? To ditch the ninth-grade humdrum of Philadelphia, and replace it with guitars, girls, applause and less-than-rigorous high school correspondence courses? He'd feel fine, thank you, Mr. Flatt. STUART, 10A GORE, 13A Go to Tennessean.com music to hear a Peter Cooper-narrated audio gallery of Marty Stuart's 40 years in Nashville.

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