Image: A rendering of new Nissan Stadium in Nashville Image Credit: Nissan Motor Corporation The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A bill that would allow the Tennessee Department of Tourism to keep mega-event contracts hidden for up to 10 years headed to the desk of Gov. Bill Lee this week, where it’s expected to […]
Image Credit: Bridgetown Natural Foods / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Bridgetown Natural Foods is receiving $1.3 million through incentives for its $78.3 million manufacturing and distribution facility in Tennessee. The project in Lebanon is being awarded a FastTrack Job Training Assistance Grant that was not disclosed Wednesday and was first listed […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development has handed out more than $8.8 million in incentives since it last posted FastTrack incentives for February. Those include $3.4 million to Schneider Electric in Mount Juliet and Smyrna, $2.5 million to Shoals Technologies Group in Portland, $1.6 […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] and The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Tennessee House voted Thursday to allow the Tennessee Department of Tourism to keep contracts hidden for up to 10 years for events such as a Super Bowl. House Bill 1692 expands the number of records that can be kept […]
Showdown brewing over county property tax caps. Photo: Economist Art Laffer. (Photo: Submitted) By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – A battle is brewing in the General Assembly over caps on county property taxes. Economist Art Laffer, an advisor to multiple Republican presidents, is pushing lawmakers to prevent large one-time county property taxes […]
Image Credit: TNECD / YouTube The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee gave out an average of $5,895 in FastTrack incentive grants for each promised job in 2023, down from $7,385 in 2022, according to data from Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development. Overall, the 2023 numbers are just below the $5,754 average […]
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