Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Tennessee State Board of Education has finally defined the “adequate growth” needed to determine whether fourth graders are held back under the state’s reading retention law. The third grade reading law was originally passed in 2021 but was not put into place until 2023. The law […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Nashville and Memphis were both graded a “C” in Truth in Accounting’s annual Financial State of the Cities report. Memphis ranked 44th and Nashville ranked 48th out of the top 75 U.S. cities in the report from the think tank that analyzes government financial reporting. […]
Photo: Fedex owns over $800 million worth of property, according to Shelby County bond records. Photo Credit: John Partipillo By Adam Friedman [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Nissan, FedEx, Brown-Forman (the owner of Jack Daniels) and Eastman Chemical each control over $500 million worth of assets in Tennessee, making them the most likely beneficiaries of […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – A red flag gun bill that would expand mandatory reporting laws is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee and voted on in the Tennessee House of Representatives this week. HB1625/SB1673, sponsored by Rep. Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville-District 14) in the House […]
Image Credit: FatCamera / i Stock The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – A bill regarding flags that are approved for display in Tennessee public schools has made significant headway in the Tennessee House, while the corresponding Senate Bill 1722 (SB1722), sponsored by Sen. Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald-District 28), has been placed on the Senate Education Committee […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Nashville residents will see a voting referendum for transit funding on the ballot in November. Mayor Freddie O’Connell has not yet released the details of the plan, but he has noted that more than 70 recent studies of Nashville transportation have led to the creation of the […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A Tennessee caption bill that would have banned the retail sale of refrigerated beer will no longer attempt that ban. Rep. Ron Gant wrote that that “that was one of the many ideas discussed and considered by the many stakeholders across our state as potential item […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s January tax collections were $98 million less than budgeted but up $15.8 million from 2023. That puts the state $378 million behind its budgeted total for the first half of the fiscal year and $104 million short of collections from the first six months […]
Photo: Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, showing off one of the tickets now required for members of the public to access the House of Representatives gallery. Photo Credit: John Partipilo By Anita Wadhwani [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – A ticketing system that restricts public access to the Tennessee House of Representatives is allowable under the state’s […]
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 […]
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