Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Tennessee Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow public school teachers in the state to carry a concealed weapon on school grounds. Senate Bill 1325 (SB1325), sponsored by Senator Paul Bailey (R-Sparta-District 15), would authorize school faculty and staff members to carry concealed weapons […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – A bill to create year-round boarding schools or “opportunity public charter schools” for “at-risk” youth in Tennessee has been placed behind the governor’s budget in the House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee after passing on the Senate floor just last week by a vote of […]
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 […]
Image Credit: @MarshaBlackburn / X & @VoteGloriaJ / X & Canva By Anita Wadhwani [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – A new poll of Tennessee voters by the conservative-leaning Beacon Center finds Senator Marsha Blackburn with a 16-point lead over challenger state Rep. Gloria Johnson, the Knoxville Democrat who entered the race after gaining national attention […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The Tennessee House moved forward with its franchise tax repeal and refund, passing the bill 68-20 and sending it back to the Senate with a much lower fiscal note. The House version of Senate Bill 2103 would refund $713.6 million or one year of franchise […]
“Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for any side. Period!” – Chris Cillizza, CNN Image Credit: Canva By William Haupt III [Tennessee Watchdog Journalist, Columnist, Author, and Citizen Legislator via The Center Square] – There was a time when gum shoe beat reporters patrolled the halls of smoke filled meeting rooms […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – The Tennessee General Assembly has passed a bill to remove the criminal offense for carrying a non-lethal self-defense weapon like pepper spray on a public college campus. The legislation has been titled the “Laken Riley Act of 2024” to honor its namesake, a nursing student […]
The House bill still differs from Senate version and could go to conference committee. Photo: Rep. John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, proposed an alternative tax solution that he said would solve any challenges to the state’s franchise tax by offering tax credits, without a “significant” cost. Photo Credit: John Partipilo By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout – […]
Photo: A woman enters the Shelby Park Community Center in Nashville, Tenn., to vote in the Super Tuesday primary, March 5, 2024. Photo Credit: John Partipilo By Adam Friedman [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – The controlling majority of the Tennessee House is unlikely to be decided in 2024, and there could be around a dozen […]
Image: U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing. Image Credit: BlueRoomStream By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – U.S. House Republicans are demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as to why more than 200,000 deportation cases were dismissed. A new report published by the Transactional […]
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