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Lawmakers directed the policy board to revise graduation rules after the coronavirus shuttered schools. The decision will affect an estimated 71,433 students in the Class of 2020 as Tennessee works to blunt the fallout of COVID-19 on school communities.
The first death from COVID-19 was reported in Shelby County March 28. For a while, we didn’t know that, because the governor wasn’t releasing deaths with county names.
U.S. Reps. David Kustoff and Steve Cohen join Tennessee Congressional delegation in calling for more federal assistance to battle COVID-19.
Lee said he hopes to free up protective devices and ventilators for the response to the coronavirus. In addition, he said Tennessee colleges of applied technology are using 3-D equipment to print face shields.
Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order Sunday, March 22, calling for businesses across the state to use "alternative business models" beginning Monday. Like local orders already in place, it bans dine-in services at restaurants statewide.
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The state reports the total number of confirmed cases in Tennessee is 73, and a third Shelby County case has also been reported. That individual is isolated at home and did not contract it in Shelby County.
Do we just pray for our environment? Or pray for children being separated from their parents? Or might the faith communities be called to engage in … dare I suggest it … politics?
Tennesseans don’t trust Tennessee to take care of them any more than they trust Washington to take care of them. The same people are in charge in both places.
Gov. Bill Lee sticks to his guns, unmoved by pleas from law enforcement officials, mayors, gun merchants and firearms trainers.
The governor set aside $68 million in next year’s proposed budget to overhaul reading instruction.
The state reversed course Tuesday amid criticism and said it would begin identifying the home county of those with confirmed cases of coronavirus.
Shelby County Commission wants to be "carved out" of Tennessee's proposed permitless carry law.
Proponents and opponents of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's proposed permitless carry measure weigh in on the controversial issue.
The impatience to build a new facility from scratch caught the attention of the company holding title to an existing, unoccupied facility. Now instead of an $11 million annual lease agreement, the county could acquire the building and property for just a fraction of the original expense – $3.4 million.
Far too many of this state’s political leaders have a paternalistic and chauvinistic attitude toward women. And what’s worse, these guys just don’t care how it looks.
Faith-based agencies in 2019 resettled the fewest refugees in Tennessee in more than two decades. The numbers likely will be even lower this year. Meanwhile, some legislators are challenging Gov. Bill Lee’s decision to continue participating in the nation’s 40-year-old refugee resettlement program.
It’s just flat mean of the Tennessee Legislature to continue to deny even basic health insurance to some 300,000 working Tennesseans just to make a political point.
Gov. Bill Lee, in his second State of the State address, introduced a $40.8 billion budget plan using $408 million in surplus funds to boost K-12 education and set up a children’s behavioral health safety net.
Gov. Bill Lee's $40.9 billion budget for fiscal 2020-21 includes $41 million for a STEM building at the University of Memphis to replace an outdated building.
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
One Memphis lawmaker contends Tennessee is setting up public education to fail by underfunding it then turning it over to charter operators and private schools.
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This political tempest involves the thorny issue of whether Tennessee should continue to participate in a federal refugee resettlement program.