Image: Tennessee Rep. William Lamberth, R-Portland, presents a franchise tax refund and repeal bill in the House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee. Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s franchise tax repeal and rebate appears headed to conference committee after the Senate refused to concur with House amendments Thursday. The House […]
Image: Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower, second from left, talks during the Funding Board meeting on Monday, March 25, 2024. Image Credit: Tennessee Funding Board The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The Tennessee State Funding Board approved $10.3 million in incentives for seven companies at its Monday afternoon meeting. The largest was $3.4 million 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: Office of the Tennessee Comptroller Press Release – An investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office shows that a Nashville-based nonprofit used grant money to make $42,249.74 of unallowable payments, including checks written to the executive director. Successful Survivors is a nonprofit that assists individuals with mental illness and substance abuse issues. In 2018, […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – A bill requiring local governments to adopt housing strategies to permit high density housing, such as duplexes, in areas authorized for single family housing is scheduled to be heard in the Senate State and Local Government Committee. Senate Bill 2124 (SB2124), sponsored by Committee Chair […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A proposal aimed at helping low-income students complete their degrees through the Tennessee Promise scholarship program will soon be heard in the Tennessee Legislature. Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, explained that a bill that would direct 5% of taxes collected from sports gambling in the state […]
Image Credit: Kenny Eliason | Unsplash The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee schools can buy emergency body cameras and call buttons for schoolteachers through school safety grants. Tennessee Sen Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, had sponsored a bill that would provide $300 to fund lanyards with an emergency button that will send an alert and […]
Image Credit: Erik Mclean / Pexels The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee has committed to hand out $17.9 million in grants for the development of 12 sites in order to prepare those sites for potential businesses. The grants are part of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development’s Site Development Grant program, […]
First in a series of reports Image Credit: Skyler Ewing / Pexels By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – A tidal wave is under way. Students and teachers are leaving public education for a variety of reasons, a symptom of widespread discontent that is fueling the demand for public education money to follow […]
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