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WEB6 days 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.
Tennessee senator wants to pour a billion more into roads
WEB1 day ago · The first stretch of Tennessee’s toll lanes isn’t expected to be completed until 2031-32, leading one senator to call for a billion-dollar annual infusion into the state’s building fund to expedite highway projects. Republican Sen. Mark Pody of Lebanon says he plans to revive a measure to bolster Department of Transportation work by $1 ...
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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 ...
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WEBThe Tennessee Lookout is your watchdog, telling the stories of politics and policy that affect the people of the Volunteer State. Our investigative reporters and journalists explain what’s happening, why it’s happening, and who it helps or hurts. We expose the relationships between politics, people and policy and we hold the powerful ...
Commentary - Tennessee Lookout
WEBSep 4, 2024 · BY: J. Holly McCall - July 31, 2024. As a news organization that exclusively covers politics and policy, the staff of the Tennessee Lookout lives for Election Days like Thursday’s primary. To use a sports analogy, it’s not quite the Super Bowl — that comes on the Nov. 5 federal election — but it’s at least the AFC and NFC championship ...
Editor’s column: Two years of the Tennessee Lookout
WEBMay 23, 2022 · In May 2020, America was still coming to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting partisan and political hysteria around it. The country was six months away from the most polarizing presidential election in memory for most of us. And the Tennessee Lookout launched. The day in March I woke up to start work on the new publication was ...
Tennessee's biggest stories of 2021 • Tennessee Lookout
WEBDec 29, 2021 · Tennessee’s biggest stories of 2021. By: Sam Stockard, Dulce Torres Guzman and J. Holly McCall - December 29, 2021 5:00 am. Republican lawmakers, led by, from left, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and House Majority Leader William Lamberth, pictured after the legislature approved an incentive package for Ford Motor Co ...
Federal judge: lawsuit by deaf people, denied services in …
WEB3 days ago · A federal lawsuit alleging Tennessee’s mental health and disability agencies discriminated against deaf individuals living in group homes will go forward, a federal judge ruled. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger shut down efforts by state lawyers to dismiss all claims brought by six ...
Investigates Archives - Tennessee Lookout
WEBJul 22, 2024 · Investigates. A 10-year-old pointed a finger gun. The principal kicked him out of his Tenn. school for a year. BY: Aliyya Swaby - August 26, 2024. (This story was originally published by ProPublica.) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like …
Expect Republicans and Democrats to compete in eight Tennessee …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · With less than 100 days until the election, state Republicans and Democrats have narrowed their election maps to a handful of seats as each party sees a chance to add members to next year’s General Assembly. Republicans have limited opportunities to expand their caucus, as they already dominate ...
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