Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative Staff – As Tennessee awaits official state data, preliminary reports show that the number of births in the state has increased nearly one-fourth since the abortion ban went into effect. Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Tennessee instituted one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Abortions […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Tennessee Senate has passed legislation that will expand current handgun policies for private schools in the state. Currently, state law allows private schools serving students in grades K through 12 to adopt their own policies regarding handguns on school property. The new legislation will expand that […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov By Danielle Goodrich [Tennessee Stands / Tri-Cities Coalition] – HB2063 / SB2691 which looks to ban geoengineering and forms of weather modification like (SRM) solar radiation modification, passed the Senate and House committees and is headed to the full House and Senate for a vote. The legislation reads, “The intentional injection, release, […]
Image Credit: KCSO & @KnoxSchools / X The Tennessee Conservative Staff – A Knox County Schools bus driver was arrested last week after it was suspected that he was driving students while under the influence. Matthew Leveque of Knoxville was a contractor with Lynch Bus Lines and was driving for Knox County Schools. According to […]
Image Credit: Justice for Landon / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative Staff – A Clarksville mother is petitioning the local school board to terminate a tenured teacher who allegedly screamed at her special needs son and pulled his hair. Jacaira Crockett organized a group that held a demonstration at the Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board on Tuesday, […]
Image Credit: U.S. Department of Labor / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A group of 24 state attorneys general wrote a letter to the Department of Labor saying its proposed rule promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the National Apprenticeship program exceeds the department’s authority. The public comment letter said the rule […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee collected nearly $7 million in taxes on more than $380 million worth of sports wagers placed in the state in February. That compares to nearly $6.4 million in taxes on $327 million in wagers in February 2023, which included one less day than February […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – The progress of a “Bathroom Bill” giving victims in Tennessee the right to sue those entering spaces that do not match their biological gender was halted on Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. During discussion, Senator Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol-District 4) made a motion for the […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – Legislation flagged as a “Red Flag Bill” by critics that aims to expand mandatory reporting laws for mental health professionals to report the possibility of potentially violent acts by their patients passed on the floor of the Tennessee Senate on Thursday by a vote of […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Senate State and Local Government Committee unanimously passed a bill that would keep autopsy reports of murdered children hidden from the public on Wednesday. Senate Bill 2020 (SB2020), sponsored by Senator Shane Reeves (R-Bedford/Cannon/Moore/Rutherford-District 14), states that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of […]
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