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Legislation setting the course for putting Tennessee’s Right to Work Law into the state Constitution passed the Senate on a 24-5 vote, with only Republicans backing it in a supermajority advantage.
State Sen. Brian Kelsey will handle legal work for a law firm prepared to file suit on behalf of families against the Shelby County and Metro Nashville school systems over the voucher lawsuit.
Shelby County government and Metro Nashville Public Schools joined forces in a lawsuit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of Tennessee’s education savings account program.
Democrats accused Gov. Bill Lee of throwing “red meat” to conservatives in his State of the State address, while Republicans said he showed "vision," especially in K-12 education.
Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation to take away the governor’s authority to keep Tennessee in the federal refugee resettlement program by claiming he is illegally "obligating" state funds.
Opponents of Gov. Bill Lee’s federal block grant request for Medicaid funds say the proposal will be "dead on arrival" in Washington, but the governor's administration says it is "encouraged" by a Thursday policy announcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
State legislators and the Memphis and Shelby County mayors are among elected officials who have endorsed a presidential candidate and plan to campaign for their choice.
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.
With an 8-1 vote, the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee passed a resolution Tuesday, Jan. 28, by state Sen. Brian Kelsey to put Tennessee’s Right to Work Law into the state Constitution.
Amtrak is hoping to add a Memphis line from Illinois and possibly create a Memphis-to-Nashville line and another from Nashville to Atlanta as it tries to tap into growth in the Southeast.
Despite withering opposition from the LGBT community on an adoption bill, state Sen. Paul Rose is pushing ahead with legislation that would prevent local governments from giving preferential treatment to vendors and contractors who have favorable LGBT working conditions.
State Sen. Paul Rose pushed legislation through the Senate Tuesday allowing state-licensed adoption agencies to turn down same-sex couples they consider in conflict with their religious beliefs.
State Sen. Raumesh Akbari is working on legislation designed to give prisoners who commit murder as juveniles a chance for earlier release if they can prove they’ve changed their lives.
Republican leaders are determined to push a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Refugee Resettlement Program despite losses in court and opposition to the lawsuit by Memphis Democrats and an organization that settles refugees in Shelby County.
Tennessee could see sweeping changes through recommendations from the governor’s Criminal Justice Investment Task Force to deal with a billion-dollar budget and increased incarcerations.
State Sen. Raumesh Akbari is encouraging money to be spent for programs such as Agape in Memphis, which are cutting into poverty, as the state studies how to spend $732 million in TANF "reserves."
Lawmakers will try to derail Gov. Bill Lee’s education savings account law in 2020 amid “suspicions” about whether some lawmakers were offered perks for supporting it.
Biden partisans locally are pushing the narrative that the former vice president is the only Democrat in a large pack of contenders who can beat President Donald Trump in the November general election.
A healthcare advocacy organization is calling the state’s federal block grant proposal too “vague” for “meaningful” public comment and says it should be rewritten to show exactly how the state plans to spend any “shared savings” with the federal government.
During a visit to Memphis Sunday for a Rosa Parks Day proclamation, Gov. Bill Lee said he is willing to work with legislators on the best use of federal TANF funding that will likely include some kind of reserve funding level.
State Sen. Raumesh Akbari says legislators won’t be precluded from coming up with a plan to spend some $732 million in reserve funds even though the Department of Human Services unveiled its own proposal.
Surprised by potential delays in IMPROVE Act road projects, lawmakers are looking for a new revenue source or help from the federal government, which must renew its own transportation funding act to help states.
Driver’s license testing centers on Summer Avenue and East Shelby Drive will get more personnel starting Nov. 11 to cut wait times.
Memphis will have strong representation on Tennessee’s Health Care Modernization Task Force, charged with forming policies to improve one of the unhealthiest states in the nation and Shelby County, which ranks in Tennessee’s bottom fourth.
Earle Fisher of Memphis disagrees with the notion the Black Voter Project or #UPTheVote901 committed voter fraud when they turned in thousands of voter registration applications, including many incomplete forms, to the Shelby County Election Commission in 2018. But the state representative who sponsored the legislation claims they were "fraudulent."
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