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WEB1 day ago · The Tennessee Lookout is your watchdog, telling the stories of politics and policy that affect the people of the Volunteer State. We’re part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Chattanooga senator to appeal public records decision in …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · The chairman of the Tennessee Senate’s Judiciary Committee is set to appeal a Davidson County chancellor’s ruling that closes the shooter’s writings in the Covenant School murders of 2023. Republican Sen. Todd Gardenhire of Chattanooga confirmed to the Tennessee Lookout he is renewing the ...
Mason, TN residents demand restoration of community center …
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The Bernard Community Center is located just south of Interstate 40, about two miles down the road from Ford Motor Co’s 4,100-acre electric truck and battery plant BlueOval City. The plant is expected to spur a population boom in Tipton, Haywood and Fayette counties when it opens in 2025. Fayette County, Tenn. Mayor Rhea “Skip” Taylor.
Grit and grind, political edition: Who will become the next mayor …
WEBAug 31, 2023 · Judge Joe Brown. Background. Judge Joe Brown is a former reality courtroom television show judge and previously served as a state criminal court judge in Shelby County. Brown was the first African-American Prosecutor in Memphis. As a defendant in a 2014 contempt of court case, he was reprimanded for becoming verbally irate and combative.
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WEBSep 12, 2024 · BY: Charlotte Rene Woods - September 10, 2024. Tennessee state lawmaker Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, on Thursday joined U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, in Ettrick to engage young Democratic voters ahead of the presidential and congressional elections this fall. His visit to support Virginia Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris ...
Professors and press both must fight anti-intellectualism
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Adam Waters and E.J. Dionne, Jr., penned an article reminding us that Donald Trump campaigned and governed as anti-intellectual, and even anti-fact and anti-truth. During the 2016 campaign Trump grumbled, “The experts are terrible [about foreign policy]. Look at the mess we’re in with all these experts we have.”.
Commentary: Four ways Tennessee’s new trust regulations benefit ...
WEBJul 30, 2021 · Tennessee’s national reputation as a leading state to establish and administer a trust took another step forward with the passage of several new regulations on May 12.
Tennessee lawmakers agree to a second billion-dollar tax break for ...
WEBApr 26, 2024 · Tennessee lawmakers have officially agreed to eliminate a portion of the state’s business tax one year after making several costly changes to the same tax. Estimates from the general assembly’s fiscal review committee show that the two cuts and an additional refund approved this year will cost the state at least $7.4 billion in the future.
‘This is akin to a hostile takeover’ - Tennessee Lookout
WEBBy: Anita Wadhwani - March 14, 2022 6:05 am. Virginia Rivers, vice-mayor of Mason, Tenn: “This is akin to a hostile takeover.” (Photo: John Partipilo) MASON, Tenn. – The Tennessee Comptroller issued an unusual appeal last week to residents of this small, majority Black town, which occupies fewer than two square miles in rural west Tennessee.
Tennessee lieutenant governor supports removal of Shelby County ...
WEBJun 18, 2024 · Tennessee’s lieutenant governor is backing a Memphis state senator’s move to force the ouster of Shelby County’s prosecutor for “dereliction of duty” in connection with felons caught carrying weapons.