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3 days ago · Biden slams Trump as ‘damn un-American,’ urges Congress to speed up hurricane aid. By Jennifer Shutt - October 10, 2024. The races and the candidates you need to know about before you go to the polls. Tennessee Votes: 2024.
District 75 state House race could prove an early referendum on ...
1 day ago · Tennessee doesn’t have an abortion referendum on the ballot this year, but the state House race in District 75, which encompasses the city of Clarksville, may yield the clearest indication yet of how much the issue sways Tennessee voters. Incumbent Republican Rep. Jeff Burkhart, a former city councilmember and small business owner first ...
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BY: Sam Stockard - October 10, 2024. Tennessee’s private-prison operator has paid more than $29.5 million in liquidated damages since 2022 for failing to meet state contractual requirements, mainly for staffing shortages at four facilities, officials said Wednesday. Department of Correction officials made the admission amid revelations of ...
U.S. Senate race likely to wrap without a debate
3 days ago · UPDATE: This article has been updated with a response from Sen. Marsha Blackburn. Six years after debating a former Tennessee governor twice in her first U.S. Senate race, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is refusing to take the stage against Democratic opponent, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, leaving voters without a chance to see them go head-to-head as the Nov. 5 election approaches.
As waters recede in East Tennessee, officials turn to the long …
Oct 1, 2024 · Hughes briefed reporters Monday alongside public officials in hard-hit Unicoi County, where a dramatic and ultimately successful rescue operation unfolded Friday morning to airlift more than 60 staff and patients stranded on the rooftop of Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin.
Report: more than $3B needed in next three years to repair …
Sep 19, 2024 · Tennessee needs more than $3 billion by 2027 to repair, replace and expand wastewater treatment systems as infrastructure crumbles and population increases, a state analysis released Wednesday found. The first-of-its-kind snapshot of Tennessee’s aging waste systems by the Tennessee Advisory ...
Tennessee senator wants to pour a billion more into roads
Sep 17, 2024 · 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 ...
New data tools show how vulnerable Tennessee is to climate change
Oct 3, 2023 · A new online tool measuring 184 categories of public data shows that large swathes of Tennessee are highly vulnerable to climate change. Developed by Texas A&M University and advocacy group the Environmental Defense Fund, the U.S. Climate Vulnerability Index tracks not only heat and extreme weather events, but community characteristics that ...
Tennessee's biggest stories of 2021 • Tennessee Lookout
Dec 29, 2021 · State Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, was indicted in 2021, along with a Nashville businessman, for allegedly funneling tens of thousands of dollars from his state account to his failed 2016 congressional campaign. A trial was set for Jan. 18 in federal court, but Kelsey’s attorney got a delay until Jan. 2023.
2021: The year in photos • Tennessee Lookout
Dec 28, 2021 · Great writing and excellent photojournalism go together like peas and carrots, and the Tennessee Lookout has the good fortune to work with excellent writers and photographers. 2021 was a lesser sibling to 2020, our launch year. If the latter gave us the opportunity to cover Black Lives Matter protests, COVID test sites and bombings, the former ...