Tag: Tennessee

Statewide ESAs, Budget Priorities In Tennessee Legislative Session

Image Credit: Antony-22 / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s 2024 legislative session will begin Tuesday with the Republican party looking to pass a budget, statewide K-12 education savings accounts, business tax cuts, enhanced school safety measures, certificate-of-need reform and health care funding. On Monday, House leadership discussed rules for session including […]

Citizens Ask State Election Commission And Williamson County Board Of Commissioners To Replace Biased Election Commissioners

Image Credit: Williamson County Television / YouTube Submitted by Frank Limpus [Tennessee Voters for Election Integrity] – On the heels of taking their concerns last month to the Tennessee State Election Commission (SEC), a group of Williamson County citizens last night asked the Williamson County Board of Commissioners to appoint new, more ethical, unbiased commissioners […]

229K Lost TennCare In First 6 Months Of Redetermination

Image Credit: Medicaid by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Nearly 239,000 Tennessee residents have lost eligibility from the first 735,000 who had eligibility checked for TennCare services through September, according to a new TennCare renewal report. TennCare was down to 1.7 million enrollees in November after 1.9 […]

Heavy Issues Pushed Aside By Sex – Yet Again

Image: Documents handed over by state’s attorneys in an open-records complaint revealed complaints of another sort had been filed against state Rep. Jeremy Faison, a Cosby Republican. Image Credit: John Partipilo By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Ah yes, nothing like opening the new year with reports of an alleged sexual harassment […]

10 Nashville Police Officers Will Be Reassigned Following Leak Of Covenant School Shooter’s Writings

Image Credit: Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) will be reassigning ten officers from within their specialized investigative unit following an investigation into how the Covenant School shooter’s writings got leaked last November. On March 27th, 2023, an active shooter took the lives of three nine-year-old […]

Poll Indicates Tennesseans Want Cap On Property Taxes

Image Credit: Beacon Center of TN & Property tax by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A new poll shows Tennessee residents believe the state should be involved in capping how high property taxes can rise. The Beacon Center poll also showed missed results related to opinions on […]

Tennessee Again Ranked In Top 5 States For Domestic Migration

Image Credit: KaCey97078 / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee was once again one of the top states to move to, ranking fifth in U-Haul’s annual rankings of growth states based on its data for one-way equipment rentals. Texas, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina topped the list as Tennessee moved up […]