NASHVILLE—Nearly every city in the state and 87 counties are kept whole in Tennessee Senate districts under a proposed statewide map released Friday by Democrats.
“This proposal keeps communities together—whole counties and whole cities wherever possible,” says Sen. Jeff Yarbro, the Tennessee Senate minority leader. …
NASHVILLE — Sen. Heidi Campbell wants Nashville’s district attorney to investigate a slew of controversial no-bid contracts approved by Gov. Bill Lee’s administration during the pandemic state of emergency.
In a letter sent Dec. 7 to Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk, Sen. …
NASHVILLE — Middle Tennessee’s fast-growing suburban communities would elect their own member of the U.S. House of Representatives under a congressional map proposed by state Democrats on Monday.
While most of the map will look familiar, Democrats say their nine-seat congressional plan improves representation by keeping almost every city and…
NASHVILLE — New federal data shows that 363,000 Tennesseans have filed claims for unemployment in 2021 and the current pace that businesses are laying off workers is more than double pre-pandemic rates.
For comparison: In all of 2019, the year preceding the coronavirus pandemic, just 135,000 Tennesseans filed for unemployment…
NASHVILLE — More than two dozen lawmakers are urging Gov. Bill Lee to veto the most egregious anti-public health bills passed by Republicans in the most recent extraordinary session of the Tennessee General Assembly.
After just two days of debate, Republicans in the legislature passed a handful of bills placing…
MEMPHIS— Two dozen Tennessee lawmakers signed a letter in support of the Memphis workers who are on strike after contract negotiations with the Kellogg’s Company have stalled.
“We stand in solidarity with the men and women who work in your Memphis production facility and we urge you to hear these…
Public invited to speak Monday at Tennessee Senate’s first meeting on districting
NASHVILLE — Sen. Raumesh Akbari (D-Memphis) wants Tennesseans to speak out Monday in favor of fair districts and keeping communities whole.
The Tennessee Senate’s committee on community districting will host its first public meeting 2 p.m. Monday, Oct…
NASHVILLE — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is kicking off a review of the state’s Basic Education Program(BEP), the formula used to distribute state funding to school districts. But Senate Democrats say the most important reform is addressing systemic underfunding.
Tennessee ranks 45th in the nation for per pupil student funding…
I live on a hill that was and is on a civil war battlefield in the southern part of Nashville, not far from the Davidson county line.
When I drive north to take my son to school, we’re amongst the masked and the vaccinated. …
Sen. Raumesh Akbari, Rep. Vincent Dixie and Rep. Jason Powell are gathering information to keep communities whole through community districting
RUTHERFORD COUNTY — What community needs should lawmakers be focused on? That’s the question a group of legislators, who will soon consider new political maps, want answered this Thursday.
Rutherford…
