Taxpayer Dollars

Tennessee House Passes Resolution Calling For U.S. Lawmakers To Stop Taxpayer Funding Of World Health Organization

Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – A resolution calling for Tennessee’s U.S. lawmakers to take steps towards stopping the taxpayer funding of the World Health Organization (WHO) passed by a 71-23 vote in the House of Representatives on Monday.  House Joint Resolution 820 (HJR0820) as introduced, “Opposes expansion of World Health […]

Feds, Scientists Take Fire For Allegedly Hiding COVID Origins Truth

Image: U.S. Army medic paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade conduct COVID-19 testing on assigned personnel on Caserma Ederle, Italy, May 15, 2020. Image Credit: Matthew Gunther The Center Square [By Casey Harper] – A Republican-led Congressional committee says a scientist and top advisor to Anthony Fauci used his personal email […]

Republicans Call Tennessee Education Commissioner’s Credentials Into Question

Image Credit: tn.gov & State Representative Todd Warner / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Some House Republicans have now joined in calling for the resignation of Tennessee’s Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds.  State Representative Todd Warner (R-Chapel Hill-District 92) is speaking out after Reynolds recently admitted to falsifying documents in an attempt to obtain a […]

Bridgestone Foods Gets $1.3M Incentive Grant For Lebanon Facility

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 […]

Memphis Pushes More Hotel Tax Funding For FedExForum Renovations

Image Credit: Ron Cogswell / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Memphis is looking for more funding for the renovations at the FedExForum and are pushing a pair of bills in the Tennessee Legislature to get that funding. The Legislature contributed $350 million in last year’s budget for renovations at the FedExForum and […]

Tennessee Agrees To Dole Out $8.8M More In FastTrack Incentive Grants

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 […]