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    Equity Alliance calls voter registration drive ‘only for show’

    Secretary of State Tre Hargett hasn’t decided whether to appeal a judge’s order blocking a new voter registration law. But he is conducting a statewide voter registration drive.

    By Sam Stockard September 25, 2019
  • State Government

    Camper asks governor to set Memphis hearing on Medicaid block grant plan

    Citing the large number of people likely impacted in Memphis, House Minority Leader Karen Camper is urging Gov. Bill Lee to schedule a Shelby County public hearing on the state’s Medicaid block grant proposal.

    By Sam Stockard September 24, 2019
  • State Government

    Setting up voucher program a ‘challenge,’ says Mark White

    House Education Committee Chairman Mark White says the Tennessee Department of Education faces a difficult task in setting up an education savings account program in time for the 2020-21 school year.

    By Sam Stockard September 24, 2019
  • State Government

    Healthcare advocates call block grant proposal ‘dangerous’

    Advocates for low-income health-care patients statewide are calling the state’s block grant proposal a “dangerous” plan that could cut levels of service and affect the state’s most “vulnerable” people.

    By Sam Stockard September 22, 2019
  • State Government

    Cohen calls for federal administrator to reject Tennessee block grant proposal

    Congressman Steve Cohen is urging a federal official to reject Tennessee’s block grant proposal for Medicaid funds, saying it would violate federal law and “inflict serious harm to recipients in Memphis and Shelby County.”

    By Sam Stockard September 22, 2019
  • State Government

    DeBerry to renew push in 2020 for red flag law on firearms

    State Rep. John DeBerry is preparing to renew legislation in 2020 for a red flag law, but it could run into trouble since the General Assembly enacted a “compromise” bill this year.

    By Sam Stockard September 19, 2019
  • State Government

    Congressional letter: Medicaid block grants not legal under federal law

    The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce is questioning the legality of Medicaid block grants for states such as Tennessee, saying Congress would have to change federal law to allow this type of healthcare funding.

    By Sam Stockard September 18, 2019
  • State Government

    State Sen. Robinson: Governor gift-wraps refusal to expand Medicaid

    Gov. Bill Lee’s $7.85 billion “modified” block grant proposal is drawing support from conservative backers and criticism from patient advocates who believe it will take people off the TennCare rolls.

    By Sam Stockard September 18, 2019
  • State Government

    State could net up to $1 billion through block grant, but no public hearing set for Memphis

    Tennessee could draw up to $1 billion more in Medicaid funds annually to increase services and possibly add people to TennCare if the federal government agrees to a “modified” block grant proposal, according to Gov. Bill Lee. But no public hearing is scheduled for Memphis.

    By Sam Stockard September 17, 2019
  • State Government

    Memphis’ Fisher rejects idea of voter fraud in 2018 registration filings

    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."

    By Sam Stockard September 15, 2019
  • State Government

    Akbari backs bill grandfathering rentals in homeowners associations

    State Sen. Raumesh Akbari backs legislation that would stop homeowners associations from restricting the lease of neighborhood homes.

    By Sam Stockard September 13, 2019
  • State Government

    Voucher bill sponsor not seeking re-election to Knox County seat

    State Rep. Bill Dunn, the Knoxville Republican who sponsored Tennessee’s voucher legislation affecting Shelby County and Metro Nashville school systems, will not run for re-election in 2020.

    By Sam Stockard September 12, 2019
  • Elections

    Federal judge blocks new voter registration law filled with penalties

    A federal judge Thursday blocked the state’s new voter registration law, a reaction to a large number of applications filed in Shelby County in 2018. 

    By Sam Stockard September 12, 2019
  • State Government

    Registry absolves Harris, Salinas on campaign finance reporting

    The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance dismissed a penalty against 2018 House candidate Torrey Harris and gave Democratic Senate candidate Gabby Salinas a clean bill of health after a campaign account audit.

    By Sam Stockard September 11, 2019
  • State Government

    House Speaker threat against Nashville mayor similar to threat against Shelby County

    Two days before Nashville's mayoral runoff election, new House Speaker Cameron Sexton has injected himself into local politics by criticizing Mayor David Briley over his recent actions related to immigration. Sexton's threat of withholding state money from the city is the same threat applied earlier this year to Shelby County by Tennessee’s lieutenant governor over immigration issues.

    By Sam Stockard September 10, 2019
  • State Government

    DeBerry, White straddle line in Medicaid expansion vs. block grant debate

    Memphis state Reps. John DeBerry and Mark White, a Democrat and Republican, are staying in the middle of Tennessee’s argument over expanding healthcare services, whether to expand Medicaid or take a federal block grant.

    By Sam Stockard September 10, 2019
  • State Government

    Judge denies state request to dismiss voter registration lawsuit

    A federal judge has denied the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by four groups challenging a new voter registration law filled with penalties for turning in incomplete forms as well as other requirements the judge questioned.

    By Sam Stockard September 09, 2019
  • State Government

    Hagerty enters U.S. Senate race with heavy dose of Trump

    Citing a mid-summer endorsement by President Donald Trump and playing heavily on conservative themes, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty entered the 2020 U.S. Senate race’s Republican primary Monday morning.

    By Sam Stockard September 09, 2019
  • State Government

    Lee vows ‘significant’ funding increase, more services in TennCare block grant

    Governor promises a better TennCare program will add services or people, but House Minority Leader Camper believes conventional Medicaid expansion is the right way to go.

    By Sam Stockard September 09, 2019
  • State Government

    Governor urges ‘following law’ amid ICE raids, shooting in Nashville

    Gov. Bill Lee said Friday he believes the state must follow the law and try to avert tension in immigrant communities, even as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers conduct roundups and hunt for people in the country illegally.

    By Sam Stockard September 07, 2019
  • State Government

    School officials to consider ‘adverse childhood experiences’ before discipline

    Schools across Tennessee will start delving into traumatic experiences in students’ lives as part of a new law targeting “exclusionary” discipline under legislation sponsored by state Sen. Katrina Robinson, a first-term Memphis Democrat.

    By Sam Stockard September 05, 2019
  • State Government

    House Republican whip resigns leadership post amid inner struggle

    A leader in the House Republican Caucus has resigned his post as whip following a “family disagreement” within the group over his use of an anonymous Twitter feed to criticize members this year.

    By Sam Stockard September 05, 2019
  • State Government

    Mid-South Peace & Justice among plaintiffs working to block new voter registration law

    A group of plaintiffs challenging Tennessee’s new voter registration law, including Memphis organizations, is urging a federal judge to block the measure because of the threat of fines and criminal prosecution.

    By Sam Stockard September 03, 2019
  • State Government

    Vaughan digging in to nitty gritty of medical certificates of need

    State Rep. Kevin Vaughan is among a group of legislators taking a closer look at the state's Certificate of Need Program for the expansion and addition of medical facilities and services to decide whether it needs to be eliminated or tweaked.

    By Sam Stockard September 01, 2019
  • State Government

    Resolution denouncing neo-Nazis limping in Legislature

    The Republican-controlled House tamped down another move to denounce neo-Nazis and white nationalists during its August special session, forcing Nashville state Rep. John Ray Clemmons to wait until 2020 to revive the measure.

    By Sam Stockard August 31, 2019

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