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6 days ago · BY: Sam Stockard - November 7, 2024. One day after the 2024 election, Gov. Bill Lee and lawmakers rolled out a recycled “universal” private-school voucher program designed to gain support from teachers and school districts with extra spending. The measure doesn’t have a funding estimate attached, but lawmakers placed $144 million in this ...
Report: more than $3B needed in next three years to repair …
Sep 19, 2024 · Anita Wadhwani is a senior reporter for the Tennessee Lookout. The Tennessee AP Broadcasters and Media (TAPME) named her Journalist of the Year in 2019 as well as giving her the Malcolm Law Award for Investigative Journalism.
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BY: Sam Stockard - October 25, 2024. Just in time for Halloween — well, really the presidential election — Tennessee’s attorney general is trying to scare the bejeebers out of us, claiming the feds conspired to dump immigrants with criminal convictions into our midst two years ago. The Attorney General’s Office release sent out ...
Glen Casada: The rise and fall of a House Speaker
Aug 23, 2022 · Two and a half years removed from resignation as House Speaker and a year from an FBI raid, Rep. Glen Casada continues to grapple with the reason for his exit. Despite an overwhelming no-confidence vote by his own House Republican Caucus in 2019, Casada still contends his only fault was participating in a handful of bad texts.
Shelby County Election Commission declines to put Memphis gun ...
Aug 27, 2024 · The Memphis City Council is set to consider its next legal move after the Shelby County Election Commission refused Tuesday to place gun restriction referendums on the November ballot. Acting on advice from Tennessee Elections Administrator Mark Goins, the commission opted against putting the questions to Memphis voters this fall, officials confirmed. Shelby County Elections […]
Hargett remains Secretary of State despite modicum of …
Jan 13, 2021 · The General Assembly overwhelmingly re-elected Secretary of State Tre Hargett to the constitutional office, despite opposition from some Democrats, and elevated former legislator Jason Mumpower to the post of Tennessee Comptroller, replacing the retiring Justin Wilson. Twelve Democrats out of 132 members in the 112th General Assembly voted ...
What to know: The new Ford BlueOval City plant poised to …
Sep 13, 2024 · The construction period is expected to generate $178.9 million in state sales taxes and $70.3 million in local sales taxes. Once it is up and running, BlueOval City is projected to yield $17.3 million in net fiscal benefits for Tennessee each year. The campus is anticipated to bring in about $6.8 million in local sales taxes each year.
Tyson Foods' expansion in west Tennessee is pitting longtime …
May 3, 2021 · A “putrid” smell. Just north of Beech Bluff in Weakley County, 16 mammoth chicken houses sit right across the fence marking the Burton farm property line, including the home of 58-year-old Jerry Burton, who is a fifth generation Tennessee farmer.